#Non-binary

[the-aaaaa-battery]

I feel the sudden urge to write about people assuming my gender and my reactions to it, so...

I'm agender, right? (Hecking autocorrect just corrected that to "a gender" which I most definitely am not. Grrr. Anyways.) I was also assigned female at birth, because I have body parts that are considered "female" in the eyes of doctors.

Because of the fact that I'm perceived as a girl, I hate hate hate being called a girl. I don't like people using feminine labels on me, such as "woman" "ma'am" "lady" "queen" "gal" etc.

I feel good about myself when people think I'm a boy, or when they are confused about my gender, because it means that I don't look like a girl.

I do not feel good about myself when people think I'm a boy and proceed to group me with boys. (When I say "group" I mean address a bunch of boys and me as "gentleman" or "boys" or something along those lines, not physically putting me in a group of boys, which I don't like but don't care as much about, because I can correct them.)

I would really, really like it if people were always confused about my gender and would ask me instead of just taking a guess and hoping to be right (because chances are, they won't be right). But that's not the case, because society hasn't progressed that much, unfortunately.

But yeah. Thanks for reading.

- Cass, any/all except she/her

[weahboo]

Yesterday, I was helping my friends sell art in the park, when a couple of girls came up to us and asked (immediately regretting it) “is this the transfem picnic?……..” to which we got to respond “no this is the transmasc yard sale.” We then proceeded to have 15-20+ beautiful women swarm our stand of 4 creatures. Life is beautiful.

[blueboytoy]

[island-76]

Here's your reminder that AFAB doesn't mean that person has breasts and a vagina. That AMAB doesn't mean that person has a flat chest and a dick.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE DICKS.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE FLAT CHESTS.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE BEARDS.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE DEEP VOICES

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE TITS

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE PUSSIES

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE CURVES

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE HIGH-PITCHED VOICES

Don't let AMAB and AFAB become the progressive binary

[frankencanon]

Is it just me or does this line hit different when you remember that David Tennant actually has a non-binary kid who uses they/them pronouns, and has worn this non-binary rainbow pin to a bunch of interviews in support of them—?

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[Update] David Tennant continues his trend of being a trans ally respectful & supportive of non-binary people & gender neutral pronouns in the Doctor Who Special: The Star Beast (2023)

[skykittywhatchamahcallit]

I think this is an incredibly important video to watch

[mime-rodeo]

give me ace characters who are unabashedly sexy and flirtatious.

give me aro characters who are emotional and clingy.

give me bi characters who can't even make eye contact with anyone, let alone flirt with them.

give me pan characters who are deadpan (haha get it) and have black cat energy.

give me non-binary characters who dress completely femme or masc, who don't “look non-binary”.

give me trans characters who don't completely pass as their gender but are still respected and not the butt of a joke.

fuck the stereotypes, give me more variety in queer representation.

[halestonehyena]

why have us queer people as a community normalized terms like "boygirl" or "girlboy" or other things like that but not like. the actual experience of being multigender. i swear some people will be like "ahaha its so cool and swag to be a #girlboy #boygirl" then turn around and be like "MEN DNI THIS POST IS ABOUT WOMEN" "MEN CANT BE LESBIANS (because no man is ever a woman too)" etc etc like come on guys

EDIT: i added an entire rant about this here

[growing-past-me]

Tumblr has been a home to queer people for years. It was the last place we felt safe online. If you attack trans women, you attack all of us, and if the tumblr polls are to be trusted, about 90% of your clientele will leave and never return. Pick your fucking battles Matt. Justice for predestrogen.

[profeminist]

"School districts that don’t respect transgender and nonbinary students’ pronouns or force them to use restrooms that don’t align with their gender identity could be committing federal civil rights violations beginning this fall.

Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced the issuance of a final rule under Title IX to protect people in public schools from sex-based discrimination and harassment. The announcement marks a significant update in federal efforts to combat sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. During a call with reporters, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona emphasized the administration’s dedication to ensuring that Title IX effectively serves all students by providing safe, welcoming, and rights-respecting educational environments."

Read the full piece here

[cha-c-san]

Gender thoughts with no satisfying conclusion :l 

[bitterteahymnal]

New zine! "Testosterone is for Girls, Too" black and white, 24 pages, quarter size, 5 bucks

[azuremist]

I could make a 3k-word manifesto on how the word “non-man” is enbyphobic horseshit, and I don’t think it could possibly be as succinct and easy-to-understand as this image. Take notes

[yuribeam]

fish are an underappreciated source of trans names

we got bream, coley, mako, saithe, danio, trahira, devario, tetra, cisco, dace, lenok, taimen, koi...

just imagine meeting someone named trev but it's not short for trevor

it's trevally

[e-wwis]

genderfluid but not in a "is it a girl day or boy day today" way but in a "my soul has lived here for too long. the doorframes are chipped and the walls are sun-faded; the wood rots and the nails rust. this house was once home but today it is no longer. will I ever be back? maybe one day. but come tomorrow this place is dead to me." on a random wednesday and then chopping all my hair off way

[anderwater]

“We haven’t seen a lot of stories like Bertie’s before,” Robinson told LGBTQ Nation. “Someone who is a person of color and non-binary, we don’t see those stories in history often. History has been whitewashed and straightwashed but these characters existed. These people existed. I felt so honored to be a part of telling these stories and telling a story similar to mine for a person like Bertie.”

Lea Robinson as UNCLE BERT⸱IE A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (2022)