#queering gender

Genderqueer isn't just a thing nonbinary people are. Heck, it's not even a thing only trans people are. "Genderqueer" is an adjective, turned into a noun for some but gender queerness, queered gender can really describe any non typical, politicised relationship to gender. A cis genderqueer person may be a twink, a drag artist, a tomboy, a femboy, a femme, a butch, a stud, a crossdresser, a cis person who uses atypical pronouns for their gender, a transvestite or any other gender nonconformist. A binary trans person may easily consider their binary gender status as genderqueer due to the politicised existence of binary transness, a percieved atypical transition or because they live queerly as a binary gendered person. Obviously, enben have an inherent genderqueerness; this is our living status for many of us who wish to live authentically. Our genders by being not binary, are queer. Some politicise it on purpose, honing into the nonbinary liberationist stance. Some are genderqueers and that is their noun, their whole identity. It is an adjective label but can also be a noun, even for the binary trans and cisgender people who are genderqueers.

And I love the idea that being queer specifically in the realm of gender is like, “I’m taking this and intentionally flipping it on its head in everchangingly unique ways because what I’ve been told this is supposed to be isn’t the only way it can be”, but at the same time sometimes queering gender is a passive action. I’m afab agender and don’t really do anything to try to be more androgynous or more masculine, sometimes I even lean into femininity, so it sometimes feels like I need to do more to really queer my gender. But it doesn’t matter what I do with it, at my core I’m queer so just by the very nature of my existence I am queering gender, even if it isn’t as visible or noticeable on me as it often is on other people in the genderqueer/non-binary etc communities