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💜💚 Pride Month Day 21: Genderqueer 💚💜

Genderqueer people's gender is non-normative. Genderqueer can be used as a gender label on its own or it can be an umbrella for any non-normative gender such as agender, nonbinary, and bigender. The flag was created by Marilyn Roxie in 2011. The purple stripe represents andgrogeny. The white stripe represents agender. The green stripe represents genders outside of the gender binary.

They/Them or She/Her

Holy! Shit! My LeoLines came in the mail today!!!

Fellow femme aligned enbies and trans women: if you're looking for cute, feminine underwear that helps hide your "equipment" WITHOUT having to tuck, then I urge you to look into LeoLines. As if it's not obvious, all the pictures on the left are me wearing my usual underwear (men's briefs, see slightly NSFW pics below) and the right is with LeoLines (also in NSFW pics below). Again, this is with no tucking!

LeoLines have built in padding in the front to safety hold everything back, so all I do is pull them up and make sure my equipment is "facing down." The seller, Chris, understands that most of the market for similar products are hypersexualized and/or for drag queens and crossdressers. These are not. These are affirming underwear for trans femme and transgender women. I love them. I need to buy more.

One word of caution: Chris isn't kidding when she says to pay attention to HER SIZING SYSTEM. Every listing on her Etsy store includes a chart and you HAVE to follow it. The ones I got are an XXS. I'm 5'6", about 135 lbs, so I'm definitely not an XXS anything. If I hadn't looked at her chart, I probably would have guessed I was a medium, but those would be huge on me. So, bust out your tape measure and measure your hips! Don't be shocked or think you did it wrong if you have to order 2-4 sizes smaller than you normally would!

Me: Oh man, I remember when I was really young when people would ask if I was a boy or a girl, I'd say "I'm a tomboy" - in my mind it was a separate thing.

Them: I have this vivid memory as a kid of this person in a Payless shoes, they were so completely androgynous, I was so in awe and all I could think was "Wow... I want to be THEM!"

Me: ... ... Mine was in Wal-Mart.

Them: ... What?

Me: When I was 11 or 12. My mom and I had split the shopping list. While I was getting the stuff there was this person next to me - they were so beautiful, but I had no idea what I was looking at. When I told my mom about them later, she told me they probably did it on purpose and some people don't want to be seen as either a boy or girl. I was floored. It changed everything.

Them: ...

Me: ...

Me: ... Is... Is there some minor androgyne deity just out there wandering low budget retail stores to help crack the eggs of non-binary trans kids?

I am conducting research on self-hate within the LGBT community. If anyone wants to message me to tell me stories about your past (or present) self-hate for my research please do so. Your name will not be used, and all information will be confidential.