#gncphobia

It's time to get comfortable with gender non-conformity and intersex bodies. Like, right now.

The trans woman with facial hair and body hair? Or is Masculine presenting? She's not some "clocky offensive caricature" she's a person existing in her body.

The trans man who wears pretty clothing? Who may or may not have breasts, who doesn’t have a high masc transitional goal? Yeah He's not "a fetishized clocky caricature by gross yaoi fangirls"—he's living his truth.

When a non-binary person presents in ways that don't fit your Westernized notion of androgyny or neutrality , they're not "clocky" or "trying to avoid being put into camp trans man/trans woman." They're just being themselves.

Non-binary people who present masculinity aren't "basically trans men" and those who present femininity aren't "basically trans women." They're not as I’ve seen some nasty people say “diet versions” of binary trans genders, they're whole, complete identities.

And intersex bodies of all gender identities and configurations ranging from ambiguous traits, “CTF” or “CTM”? They're not "theyfabs" or "theymabs” “herms” “fakers trying to access certain privileges over real tm intersex people.” Which to perisex folks is the stereotype configs of Ovotestes. We’re not "just binary cis/trans people with a disorder." They're simply human bodies that exist beyond your binary and perisex expectations.

Perisex and intersex agender, sexless, transsex, varsex, and altersex individuals aren't "traitors running away" from the fight. They're not "deranged" or "unrealistic." They're living authentically in ways you haven't bothered to understand.

The person with more than four gender expressions—masc, fem, neu, androgynous, xenine, outherine, preterine, and kenine? Yeah hi I exist and I’m not not "some confused tumblr kid in a phase." I’m over 25 and living my truth.

Lastly the trans person using “contradictory labels” neopronouns, xenogenders and weird names? They're not mocking anyone they’re just trying to find language and expression that fits their experience.

But it’s

a post by a trans person ???

I am a transfeminine person, who is exclusively attracted to men and nonbinary people, my labels are kinda fluid, but sometimes I am comfortable calling myself straight. And despite it all I am pretty masculine-looking and comfortable to present that way. Lately I've been seeing a lot of discourse on twitter around gnc trans people, a lot of transmeds there saying stuff like "no trans woman would want to look that way", "never met a trans woman, who's comfortable with having a facial hair" etc etc, and if it wasn't already disappointing, even on the other side of this discourse every drawing of a masculine trans woman has a lesbian badge on them. It's almost like people can't even think about a trans woman being attracted to men and also not wanting to conform to gender norms, as if only being non-straight can justify women not wanting to be feminine. And if you really think about it, there are little to none examples of even cis straight women in media who are allowed to be masculine or gnc without it being used as a joke or something like that. To be clear, I love my trans butch siblings and I think they deserve to be seen and heard, but I just find it weird that people can't comprehend non-butch transfem mascs and women being both straight and masculine generally

(sorry for grammatical mistakes, I'm not used to write in english)

This is gynequeerphobia (specifically directed towards androgenized women and fems.)

Androgenized traits do not make a woman or fem any less of a woman or fem.

Sex traits =/= gender.

Expression =/= gender.

Androgenized women & fems, you're wonderful and amazing, and do not deserve to be treated as a "transmisogynistic stereotype."

Peritrans and intersex women & fems who are masc-presenting, you're wonderful and amazing, and do not deserve to be treated as a "transmisogynistic stereotype."

Being androgenized does not make you a stereotype, it's just a body type. Being masc presenting does not make you a stereotype, it's just a presentation.

When RuPaul says, 'we're born naked and the rest is drag,' he is wrong. He is in drag because he is a man, and he can stop being a woman whenever it becomes inconvenient. When being a woman is inconvenient for me, I need to remove the inconvenience.

Male ideas of 'femininity' are a major inconvenience to those of us who are actually women and have to live our lives in that state."