#Genderfuckery

[transmultiphobia]

"I've been thinking recently about the first ever trans space I was ever actually a part of, Bigender.net. My experience was primarily with these forums in ~2009, but I came back to peek in later years, and am trying to regain access now. There's a lot of bigender cultural things there that would probably never be known about or archived somewhere easily accessible unless someone talked about what they saw there, and I wanted to share some things.

+ A Lot of people used two or more names that they switch up, use in different contexts, and that often align with specific genders. Names are essentially changed like pronouns are for many people.

+ Most bigender people seemed to experience some kind of fluidity or flux of gender, and it was rarer for people to feel like 100% both at all times. This seems to be more often where people label themselves androgynes.

+ The language of "en femme" and "en homme" was used to describe both how one was presenting (similar to the modern boymoding/girlmoding) and to how one felt their gender on a specific day, which is what makes it different from girlmode/boymode. It wasn't just about presentation regardless of gender, but presentation as related to gender.

+ Plurality became so common over the years as a framework of bigender expression that a whole subforum for plurality emerged on these forums. Lots of plural bigender folks would experience having a "girl side" and a "boy side" in a dual system.

+ There were just as many bigender folks who experienced a neutral/other/middle gender experience besides just being male/female. It really wasn't limited to 2 genders, even if at the time it was very male/female bigender focused."

Aster, Bigender Culture

[redhairandpronouns]

girls can be boys. and boys can be girls. if you believe

[crazycatsiren]

Y'all go around yelling "destroy the gender binary" and then turn around with "you're either cis or trans" as if that's not also gender binary thinking.

[consolecadet]

I'm reading my MyChart notes from all the shit that happened on Friday and have discovered that my local hospital has, because I'm trans, something called an "organ inventory" which is just a list of what sex organs I have and whether they are surgically constructed. Not sure how I feel about that.

[thegodwhocums]

In the rites of Dionysos during classical times, there were indeed cases where men and women celebrated the god in sexually separated groups and with different kinds of rites. But there were also occasions where the sexes acted together, even in maenadism. In the latter case, male participants were few and apparently always feminine-identified. Originally, in the prehistoric past, maenadism may very well have been an all-woman affair, but by the time of the classical era instances of male participants were not unknown. […] The striking feature about male participation in maenadism is that in order to be acceptable men had to lay aside all signs of male privilege and adopt a feminine persona.

Arthur Evans, "The God of Ecstasy: Sex Roles and the Madness of Dionysos," 1988

[lxvenderjewel]

tumblr robbed me at gunpoint and it took the quality so i apologize. anyways i felt inspired today

[thetisming]

"boys will be boys" "girls will be girls" well i think boys will be girls and girls will be boys

[pand0monium]

shoutout to gender non conforming cis people tbh

cis people who use they/them or even neopronouns

to cis girls who bind or pack

to cis guys who wear makeup regularly

to all cis folks who participate in genderfuckery but still consider themselves cis: it's okay if there's no egg to crack. you're allowed to be gender nonconforming every bit as much as the rest of us. and you're fabulous for it

(TERFS DON'T FUCKING TOUCH THIS POST IT IS ON SIGHT.)

[gednerbedner]

learning about he/him lesbians is revolutionary cause you can sing songs about a he without the dissonance of "i'm a lesbian but i'm singing about a guy"

shoutout to he/him lesbians they're so cool

[crazycatsiren]

Gender is a social construct and gender euphoria can coexist.

[consolecadet]

How do other trans people feel about meeting someone with their dead name? I've had my current name for ~11 years but I still feel slightly weird interacting with someone with my previous name

[aelin9]

We have Sapphic and Achillean... I'm proposing a new term for nonbinary romance

It's time we had a way to describe nonbinary relationships, an equivalent to Sapphic and Achillean

So I give you...

Lokian adj.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of Loki, the Norse trickster god (the OG genderfucker)

Being or pertaining to an intra-patera volcanic eruption, one confined inside a patera (caldera).

a. A nonbinary person attracted to other nonbinary people b. NBi/NBi romance

Thoughts? Questions? Feedback? 🤓

(Shout out to my friend Sydney who suggested Loki, you're a genius 😘)

[theaustralianfrog]

TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY I THINK

NEARLY MISSED IT

REMEMBER YOU ARE IMPORTANT AND LOVED AND EVEN IF YOU DONT BELIEVE ME NOW, YOU MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE

[a-redharlequin]

Are you a boy? A girl? Both? Neither? Ah, of course.

You must be a dragon!

No gender! Only dragon!

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