Deep in my burrow

and it abandons ALL native people who experience this gender-coercive violence. a cisgender lakota man whose gender is wičháša is cisgender and yet also white colonial violence will be done against him on the basis of his gender expression. he will be policed on his hair and sacred braids, he experiences increased risk of violence and sexual assault, he lives with the effects of trauma and their relatives alcoholism and addiction and suicidality, and ultimately has a far higher likelihood to attempt suicide. or be murdered.

this is not a hypothetical lakota man. justice for Cole Brings Plenty now, and remember that your campaign to guarantee freedom from medicalized coercive assignment of sex and gender needs to also defend the gender expression of native peoples.

- aromantic people who aren't asexual.

- asexual people who aren't aromantic.

- cishet aromantic and cishet asexual people.

- aromantic men in general.

- intersex people who are trans.

- intersex people who are are cis.

- intersex people who are cistrans/tris and those who are neither.

- intersex people who are cishet.

- intersex people in general.

- nonbinary people who don't personally identify as transfem or transmasc.

- nonbinary people who don't want to be androgynous.

- cis people who use neopronouns and/or xenogenders while still feeling cis fits just fine.

- people who feel gender dysphoria or misgendered when referred to by they/them, especially after telling you not to use they/them.

PART TWO.

“I’m tired of this flesh prison and I want to go home”

“Hey pack! Look I bought this thing related to my species!”

Simon's an amputee with PTSD after a really bad underwater welding incident, which has left him very unemployable and very angry

He's also currently on house arrest awaiting trial for the, uh, filament station (offshore oil rig in this au) 'incident', which he may or may not be somewhat responsible for the deaths of a few people.

His service dog, Ellie, (who looks like a mix between lida bida boda butt and a great dane) needs a dog walker!

Enter Grace, recently disgraced molecular biologist who needs some form of income while his police check goes through so he can apply for teaching jobs. It's taking a worryingly long time, which is entirely his fault. He did threaten people. To their faces.

He chooses dogwalking as his gig. He's never wanted to own a dog for himself, as he much prefers cats, but he needs the money and this seemed easy enough. He also doesn't have a car so doordashing is out of the question.

Ellie is a nightmare ankle biter with every human except Simon, but LOVES other dogs

Simon is very cagey with his personal life. He fears that nobody could ever see him as anything other than the butcher he sees himself as. He's almost thankful for the disfigurement, at least his outsides match his insides now.

Grace doesn't know anything about him, but through their brief interactions every day, can glean that he is very depressed.

by the way you can be a girl, a boy, AND gender neutral, all at the same time

by the way you can be EVERY gender, all at the same time, just identifying as all of them

by the way you can be NO gender, yep, if you want; not even "nonbinary" if you don't want to

by the way you can be COMPLETELY a boy PLUS something else

by the way you can be COMPLETELY a girl PLUS something else

by the way you can be a gender themed after something that means a lot to you

by the way you can be a gender related to your neurodivergency

by the way you can be a gender related to your species (for alterhumans)

by the way you can be fluid between VERY specific genders

by the way you can be flux between one gender or another only

by the way you be completely one of the options above WHILE having a gender that fully contradicts it

by the way you can have a gender SPLIT between two or way more genders

by the way you can have your gender set to "just whatever I feel convenient to call myself" without being genderfluid

by the way you can have no label at all

by the way you can make up labels or just completely frankenstein genders together until somethings make you comfortable

Gender and culture and expression of both of those things are so individual and the problems that come with them are also incredibly individual. And people like fight over what problems are worse.