#transno

You cannot read a post where the point is having boobs does not equal being feminine and go oh! right. Because not wanting boobs equals being masculine! No!! I'm not transmasculine! I'm not trying to look masculine! Kill the gender binary that has a stranglehold on your views of gender!

Stop shoving nonbinary people into a new set of binary boxes!

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the idea that having boobs gets you automatically and inherently classified as being "female presenting" and "feminine presenting" in so-called progressive circles makes me want to maul people.

I've said this before and I'll just keep repeating it forever: I'm disabled. I can't wear a binder. If I tried I'd dislocate several ribs and that'd be the least of my worries. Like. you know why ribs not being where they're supposed to be is dangerous? Yeah. Yeah. Use your imagination. That's a real thing I have to worry about.

I can't even wear a sports bra that's several sizes """too large""" comfortably.

And yeah, I can use trans tape, but that takes concerted time and effort to put on and take off, and every time you put it on you get different results, and you might just mess it up entirely and waste it, and it can get itchy if you're sweating with it on (and it's 90 degrees almost all the time it's not actively winter here, so that's...literally unavoidable. Even sitting in the living room. Because the electric company charges an arm and a leg for AC during the summer AND won't even give you enough to actually cool your shitty tiny apartment even with all the doors shut and curtains drawn!!!!!), and it's expensive to buy more of.

And especially because this declaration of "feminine presenting" or "female presenting" that gets shoved onto you is not only misgendering you, but placing the blame on you for being misgendered for not looking not-female enough. It's no longer the speaker making incorrect assumptions, they're now literally declaring that this is a concious decision you make. You are choosing to "present" yourself this way...by having a body that you have no control over.

And even when it comes to clothes, the idea that the clothes you wear is another purposeful, conscious Presentation™ of your gender...

Even if we ignore for a moment the fact that being disabled and poor severely limits the clothes you can wear and even just have access to, what about people who literally don't get to choose what their clothes are? Kids whose parents buy their clothes for them, people whose carers choose their outfits for them?

My gender is not "sun-bleached tank top and shorts with a reflective sun hat". That's just what I wear so I don't die of heat stroke every time I set foot outside, and so that my joints are not being painfully constricted every time I move. I literally can't take my hat off outside during the day without developing a headache (or are they fucking migraines? fuck if I know!) within minutes from the sun trying to murder me from my light sensitivity. And it took me years to even realize that it was light sensitivity causing this. I remember in middle school the substitute gym teacher asked if I was a vampire because I moved to the closest shady spot every time we moved to a new area.

And like. Let's be honest. Even if I could safely wear a binder...They're fucking expensive.

[ID: twenty one button designs against transparent backgrounds, showing a lavender sky, an unside down crescent moon, and tiny white four pointed stars.

Each design has different black text over top, written in the font demo Black Anemone, in all caps, reading "This is what a / an [blank] looks like, with a different word substituted for each pin:

In order from top to bottom and left to right, they read:

Aphorian, autism, communist, drag king, drag queen, enby, gay, lesbian, nonbinary transexual, transfem, transfemasc, transgender, transmasc, transmascfem, transneu, transno, transsexual, transvoid, transxeno, xenby.

End ID.]

Web archive link where you can download the HD ones: "https://archive.org/details/in-the-cradle-of-the-moon-pin-button-designs"

Othran is a nonbinary alternative for woman or man. The term was created on July 1st 2023, by me. Note that "nonbinary alternative" does not mean it's "unisex/gender neutral" meaning it could refer to anyone of any gender, it is explicitly for nonbinary people who are not women or men in any way.

[ID: A pride flag with five horizontal stripes of: Dark grey, light grey, white, pale yellow, and black. End ID.]

This flag, like all my pride flags, is public domain, which means you are explicitly encouraged to download it, share it, and use it for anything you like -- including in designs you're selling.

If you can figure out where the color scheme comes from (besides my synesthesia), you get a symbolic gold sticker.

You can download the HD version of this flag from the internet archive here.

If you're trying to hand-make something with this flag and only have limited colors, you can replace the two grey stripes with whatever single shade of grey you can get your hands on.

If you create terms and pride flags for Queer identities, please get into the habit of uploading them to the web archive before you post them, and then linking that in your post, like I've done here. Too many terms get lost because of blogs being deactivated!

I think a "transno" flag would just be funny. "are you transfem or transmasc?" "no"

#like transvoid/transqueer/transfuckyou but funny

Here you go. The colorful version is from last night's sunset :)

[ID: Two flags. The first version is greyscale, with very dark grey, dark grey, light grey, white, light grey, dark grey, and very dark grey.

The second flag has six stripes of: pale orange, pale gold, very pale peach, desaturated teal, desaturated purple, and desaturated dark purple.

End ID.]

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And some more:

[ID: Three flags.

The first is the gradient from dark grey to white to dark grey from above, now with colors picked from the other flag, so that the stripes are desaturated dark purple, purple, teal, peach, teal, purple, and dark purple.

The next flag is the same as the first, but with the colors fully saturated.

The third flag is the orange, gold, peach, teal, purple, and dark purple flag from above, now with the colors fully saturated. End ID.]