#nonbinarism

you have to do this because it's what girls do. you have to do this because it's what boys do. you're not doing it good enough. you're doing it too much. you're not doing it the right way. i'm going to see you as subhuman because you're a girl. i'm going to tell you to be cruel because you are a boy. why are you submitting? be a strong woman! why are you being cruel? be a good man.

what if we all said fuck it and stopped being men and women at all? what if our only goal was to be good people? what if we pursued love for the sake of love and not for marriage or checking boxes that we're told to check? what if being male or female was nothing more than a set of physical characteristics and anything else about you is dependent on you as a creature of earth?

my lil contribution to intentional nonbinary peoples day 🤍✨️

[ID: A swirly background with the flag colours of the nonbinary flag - yellow, white, purple and black - as the background to all slides. Purple text reads; What even is... cisgender nonbinary? Background by xrainestormx (pinterest).

The Basics. Cisgender Nonbinary isn't the most well-known identity, so it's not a shock that many people have no idea what this label means, or how a person could be cisgender and nonbinary - especially since transgender nonbinary is a far more common identity.

Gender Neutral Parenting. Overtime, the idea of raising your children outside of a gendered environment - including not labelling them as male or female and not using gendered pronouns - has gotten more popular, especially amongst gender diverse parents. These children, raised with no gender, are now growing up and finding themselves in a unique position - cisgender nonbinarism!!

Assigned Not-Your-Business At Birth. For some people, they view their assigned gender as irrelevant. They are nonbinary because they always have been, regardless of assigned sex or gender they were raised as. Identifying as transgender may not feel right, because it feels less like transitioning and more like... existing how they always have.

Intersex Nonbinaries. While the idea that intersex people are "cis nonbinary" is a misconception - some intersex people do identify this way. Due to their intersex variation, identity, or whatever reason they may have, they view their sex as nonbinary and therefore cisgender nonbinary feels most comfortable.

CisTrans and Unlabelled. Not every nonbinary person with fit conveniently into the cis or trans boxes. Some will feel their identify lays somewhere outside these two boxes, or mixes within it. CisTrans is an identity slowly clawing its way into common knowledge, as are unlabelled nonbinary folk.

The same way the King of Lineland assumed the narrator was a woman who used she/her pronouns.

In Lineland, Straight Lines are considered men. In Flatland, Straight Lines are considered women. This is a very blatant challenge to everything the narrator views as self-evident, and a challenge for the readers as well.

There's no reason you have to go along with the narrator's assumptions about the Sphere's gender. He never asked, and he had many opportunities to do so.

Transneutralism (transgender neutralism) or transnonbinarism: similar to postgenderism, the adovacy for by non-binary rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes and genders; a movement by and for transneutral and neutrois people, viewing their liberation to be intrinsically linked to the liberation of all neutrally gendered and abinary individuals and beyond.

I do like fems but idk if I’ve said this before but I’m extremely intimidated by y’all. 😂

I think it has to do with the fact that I will never be 100% fem or able to express femininity the way high fems do. There is a little bit of envy there.

all binaries are oppressive, because nothing in the world is structured in a purely binary way*. sex isn’t binary. gender isn’t binary. sexuality is not binary. 

we understand this, and we work this into our politics. however, many other things are also not binary

queer/straight isn’t a binary. there are straight queer people and queer straight people. cis/noncis|trans&nb isn’t a binary. neurodivergent/neurotypical isn’t a binary. mentally ill/not mentally ill isn’t a binary. disabled/abled is not a binary. 

whether or not we accept it, human minds tend towards binary structures of the world. it’s easier. and it’s not a crime to take the easy road, but you can’t take it without failing to see, acknowledge, account for, or engage with the things that don’t fit in your binary boxes.