#autonomous gender

[outherworldlycoining]

Effemique

An autonomous effeminate gender. A gender that's simultaneusly autonomous and characterised by effeminacy/unwomanly femininity.

[Image description: Effemique flag. It has four horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: dark rose, white, yellow, pink-purlplish grey. /end image description]

[ix-c-999]

i have a question about maverique and gender coining.

i'm an alter in a system who recently split and i pretty soon figured out the best word for my gender is "maverique" because i would describe it as a strong gendered feeling unrelated to anything about the gender binary and that autonomy and me just being me feels like a major part of it.

i know maverique was coined before xenogender was, so the definition of maverique didn't factor in the existence of xenogenders and thus i don't really have a clear picture on whether or not they "can" interact in the same gender or if you can coin a maverique gender (or if it's like singularian where by definition you can't mix it with anything).

so yeah is coining maverique genders a thing? like to me, there are things that my autonomous gendered feeling is connected to, and i'd want to use xenogender labels for them, but i'd feel them in a maverique way. i specify this on my gender collection so everyone understands what i mean when i use xenos, but i'd also like to have genders where maverique is actually a part of their original definition. i know that you can coin an "autonomous-in-nature" gender but can you associate it with the label of "maverique"?

(also i am aware that what i "can" or "can't" do with gender isn't really dictated by what other people think, but at the same time i recognize that maverique is a specific label coined to mean a specific thing, and i want to preserve the integrity of that label and not misunderstand how it works.)

[gender-jargon]

Also what's an autonomous gender? /gen

Previous ask from user pirategracey:

I was browsing your Tumblr since you liked my post and you coined intragender, a gender modality I use. That's so cool /gen

Hey there! I'm so happy you found one of my terms to be helpful for you.

To paraphrase my original definition of autonomous gender, it refers to a gender experience that is 1) self-determined, 2) independent from outside governance as well as 3) a sense of freedom regarding one's actions, wills or desires.

In other words, this means that autonomous genders are fully defined by oneself, without the imposition of outside structures and authorities (systemic or interpersonal). This can be expressed in numerous ways, such as a Maverique, Autonomique or Egogender identity.

Gender autonomy can also extend to those who have individualistically redefined preexisting, heteronomic roles, identities and/or presentations. To rephrase, non-autonomous gender experiences can be reconceptualized through one's selfhood and/or liberation of the self.

Autonomy as a nature of gender can be kinda confusing. If you need clarification or have any other questions, please don't hesitate to send me another ask! :-)

- Gent

[uncanny-tranny]

It's just... odd to me, I suppose, going from "what is in my pants is completely irrelevant to most anybody else's life" to the expectation that you must be completely open, essentially, about what is in your pants.

I think a lot of people understand the general idea of why it's bad decorum to demand people offer explanations for private information like this, but they don't analyze exactly why it's bad besides, "asking directly is just rude" and not "asking in any way still enforces the often violent nature of gender and sex, and putting people in the 'right box' is a part of that violence."

It's especially odd when seeing other trans people enforcing the idea that "what's in your pants?" is a genuine, good-faith basis for interacting with others.

[coochiequeens]

Spain.....

By Nuria Muíña García February 29, 2024

A student organization at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) is calling for the expulsion of a prominent professor of Social Anthropology, alleging she was “transphobic.” The Socialist Youth Organization, also known as OJS, is demanding the termination of Dr. Silvia Carrasco, after she had been giving talks discussing the necessity of biological sex classifications in anthropology at the beginning of the semester.

On February 12, the OJS released a video on social media titled “let’s organize against transphobia.” In it, a female student read a speech targeting Carrasco and slamming the university for allowing “untouchable academic freedom” on sensitive subjects.

“Today, classes return to the UAB campus, ideological control returns, reactionary and transphobic speeches return to our classrooms,” she said. “Under the banner of untouchable academic freedom, they allow professors to impart content under ideological and scientific criteria, turning the classroom into a space for the production and legitimization of reactionary and… transphobic speeches… typical of social democratic politics, narratives that try to explain gender oppression from a sexual essentialism from biologist positions.”

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By Nuria Muíña García March 6, 2024

Concerns about “trans fraud” have emerged after dozens of male civil servants in one small community changed their gender identity reportedly just to get benefits allocated for females. The wave of gender change approvals follows the implementation of the Trans Law, which eased the regulations surrounding legal identity changes.

In the small, autonomous city of Ceuta alone, it has been revealed that 37 male civil servants have changed their legal gender. Of them, the vast majority are associated with the Military, National Police, Civil Guard, or Local Police, and these new “females” have curiously all chosen to retain their male names and continue their lives “as men.”

One of the men has come forward to boast of his success, stating that he changed his legal gender after the Trans Law was implemented in Spain in March of 2023.

Roberto Perdigones, a 35-year-old Army corporal, changed his legal sex to “female” after deciding he identified as an “intersex bigender” person. Perdigones explained that “externally, I am a straight man and internally a lesbian woman.”

Perdigones says he first discovered that changing his registered sex would afford him benefits after reading an update in the National Police Exam syllabus with a list of “possible” gender identities one may have. Perdigones found a gender description he felt he matched, so pursued the change.

“On the outside, I feel like a heterosexual man, but inside I am a lesbian woman, which is what prevails. That’s why I made the legal change to female,” he says. “I did it because I could,” Perdigones admitted to El Español.

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[klapollo]

idk i feel very lucky to have been raised by women across multiple generations who modeled wanting respect and balance in their marriages who never told me or even implied that bending over backwards for a husband was my lot in life and that i was never supposed to take serving men on the chin. my dad's mother is like that but thankfully my mom's mother is the one who raised me and she made a woman running the show and being respected and loved by her family and not submitting to her husband natural to me growing up and im so grateful for that

[beeapocalypse]

gotta get back into sci fi. spend too much time thinking abt dragons what about 3d printed skeletal structures and shit

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Viramoric Maverique Pride Flag

Maverique: an abinary allogender/aporagender identity; a gender that is not the absence of gender, or an apathy towards gender, but a present feeling of gender, completely independent from male, female, neutral, or anything derived from any of them.

Viramoric: a diamoric term for binaryn't (genderqueer/nonbinary) individuals who are exclusively or primarily attracted to men.

[transsexualjoanofarc]

i loveee genderswapping characters but people who do it lazily piss me offf theyre like yeah we changed the pronouns & genitals & made them conform to that gender & thats it & dont even stop to consider the fucking Implications like what are their thoughts on gender what are their thoughts on gender presentation how did growing up as that gender effect them how does it change the storys themes how does it enhance the storys themes how does it change the relationships they have? cmon guys

[dashiellqvverty]

the sims going from letting everyone being bisexual by default in the year 2000 to adopting the split attraction model as a game mechanic in 2022 is literally so many steps backwards i cannot even begin to describe how mad it makes me

[outherworldlycoining]

Trinäq

A gender characterised by a strong sense of autonomy and inherent genderqueerness/gender non conformity and a sense of rejection of/rebellion against the fem/masc dichotomy and the male-female binary. It's not generic or unisex/gender neutral, but rather specific. It rejoys in being a "something else". Trinäqs rebel against re-binarisation by (re)claiming a ternary existence of their gender. It's associated to/with any term and role, real or fictional, that exist in opposition to/separated from the feminine/female and the masculine/male, with the colour violet (but not purple), and with the elements of aeather, sand and thunder/lighting. It can be described as daen, but not as dae.

Pronounciation: [Try-nehk]

[ID: The Trinäq flag. A flag with five horizontal stripes,from top to bottom: violet, tan, cyan, tan, and violet. The tan stripes are thinner than the /END ID]

[satanfemme]

actually ...... can I confess something. (you say "yes", sympathetically). *sits down in the confession booth solemnly*. *there's moody lighting on us*. *in the distance, outside the church, dogs are howling*. btw don't try to explain anything to me I hate knowledge I love being uninformed and this is a rhetorical one-way communication channel so if u try to turn this into a discussion I will only hear static and also might kill you cause I'm in a mood. [gameplay tip: the mood is killing]. (you're suspicious, but say "yes, I understand" anyway. and our fates have been sealed). ok cool thanks. so honestly as someone who identifies as both a homosexual and bisexual man I don't really 'get' the whole "bi lesbian discourse"... ?

[severalowls]

Looking through the tag of the book I just finished and finding some truly horrendous takes from the apparently very real 'depiction is endorsement' crowd. One of the characters who is essentially the antagonist of the story having major internalized homophobia and dealing with it in a kind of dubious way which is entirely in keeping with the Themes of identity and self determination/lack thereof? Homophobic trash!!!!

[angerissue]

Six months before the battle of Sokovia, Bruce had sought professional help for his PTSD, but then he was retraumatized during a routine mission with the Avengers. In consequence, his body started to reject his normal form in favour of his transformed one, which caused discomfort whenever he was in his normal form. He felt tense and off, like he was in the wrong skin, and he began favouring his transformed state. This drew the concern of Natasha Romanoff, who discovered a method to help him revert without discomfort. She called it the "lullaby".

During the lullaby, Natasha rested her hand against Bruce's own, and she spoke softly and quietly to him. This made him feel more relaxed, and therefore more comfortable and willing to revert.

🚨 This post discusses gender biases associated with abuse and trauma.

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I. Why Natasha Romanoff?

Among Bruce's teammates, Natasha was the only person who could perform the lullaby on him. This wasn't because he liked or loved her, though. He appreciated her as a teammate and found her amicable, but if Bruce liking someone was the only requirement for the lullaby, it would have worked with his other teammates too, and this was not the case. Rather, Bruce has always been more comfortable around people who present as women, especially when it comes to conflicts and confrontations. His father was abusive, and confrontations with him never ended soundly, so Bruce becomes uncomfortable during disagreements with other men now. There's an internalized association with Brian's abuse. This intensifies when he's in a transformed state. When he initially refused to revert and his teammates tried reasoning with him, he was hostile to everyone but Natasha, partly because of the above association. Natasha’s behaviour was another reason for Bruce's favourable response. She'd been observing him and noticed he wasn't receptive to his other teammates, so she tried a drastically different approach that was calmer and way more passive, using her knack for psychological manipulation to accomplish it without coming across as fraudulent. Natasha spoke quietly and encouragingly, and she reached out and made physical contact with Bruce as well, which his teammates had not done. It was a strategic move, and it paid off better than she expected. Bruce did not pull away or fight her, and he soon reverted. Unbeknownst to Natasha, when Bruce was still a boy, his mother often held his hand and spoke gently to comfort him, which Natasha had mirrored. Just like his other association, this association was stronger in his transformed state, too. Natasha understood her actions had been successful, and this became the lullaby.

II. Bruce’s Thoughts.

Bruce never considered the above reasons for the lullaby’s success, even after it was retired. Instead, he credited its success to Natasha merely being clever, and knowing enough tactics from her years of espionage (and interrogation) that she could easily find something that worked with him. Bruce never knew there was a personal component to it, or that it harkened back to his childhood, and he never knew other people would've reacted differently, and been more resistant to what she did. Despite the lullaby's success and convenience for both Bruce and the Avengers, Bruce had mixed feelings about it. He was appreciative of its existence, because it served an important purpose and it was even therapeutic in a sense, though he had always been an extremely self-reliant person, and the lullaby made it difficult not to feel dependent on Natasha. He was frustrated that he was losing control of his body in the first place too, moreso because it reminded him of the issues he'd previously had with his condition. There was a lot of uncertainty. The lullaby was indeed useful in the moment, but he dreaded the thought of needing it down the road. Bruce's reversion issues were ultimately a result of his PTSD relapse, which was successfully treated with medication once he returned from Fiji. Bruce had not considered medication before this, because his discomfort was exclusive to his normal form and didn't affect his transformed state, so he believed the problem was directly related to his condition, rather than his mental health. He had been very confident in his recovery up to that point, and even after the last disastrous mission, he never thought it was significant enough to impede him that much. If he'd asked his teammates for input, especially Tony, who also had PTSD, he may have gained more perspective, but he was reticent about his personal issues and never bothered.

III. The Lullaby Nowadays.

Natasha Romanoff is no longer around in Bruce's most recent verse, because she had died during the team's search for the infinity stones. However, if she were still around, the lullaby probably wouldn't work anymore. There was a moment during the battle of Sokovia where Bruce wanted to sit out the fight, because of certain concerns with his condition, but Natasha forced him to fight anyways. Bruce still respects Natasha as a tactical expert, and part of him understands why she used him like this, but her actions in Sokovia created new associations that counteract how the lullaby worked. Bruce never fully regained his trust in her, and this would render the lullaby ineffective now.

IV. Where was Hulk?

Simply put, Hulk was still a dormant and passive personality in the system. He couldn't front at the time, because he still hadn't developed enough for it. This finally happened during the Johannesburg incident, six months later, when the conditions were right. Not only was Bruce forced to relive his childhood trauma because of Wanda Maximoff's hex, but he transformed when this happened as well, a process that effectively puts him into a developmental state (which also put Hulk's own development back into the blender). Before the Johannesburg incident, Hulk was around in an imperceptible capacity, but he wouldn't have been able to front or influence Bruce.

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[molsno]

whenever a "well-meaning" tme person starts criticizing trans women for being overly sexual or consuming too much porn or whatever it's obvious they're full of shit and a transmisogynist but it always feels so cruel because a lot of us genuinely did have no other option besides porn to explore transfemininity. like maybe that sounds gross to you but how the fuck do you think it feels growing up your entire life with your ONLY exposure to trans womanhood being fetishistic and dehumanizing porn? do you know how badly that fucks with our minds? how much trauma that leaves us with? have you ever even considered it?

it's so easy for you to sit there and look down on us for being "addicted to porn". of course it is, because it's people like you who created the conditions that banned us from every other avenue of gender expression by calling us sissies and faggots and beating us for something as simple as growing out our hair. if you don't like it maybe you should fucking do something to make it safe for the people around you to explore transfemininity in non-sexual settings. I know you won't, though, because it's much easier to call us pornsick males and laugh at us for being unable to conceptualize ourselves as fully autonomous human beings with value beyond just how sexually desirable we are as fetish objects.

it's fucking infuriating honestly. they'll say they don't believe any of those things and then start talking about how their criticisms of "porn addiction" come from concerns about how it objectifies "females". you know, REAL females, not like those "porn-addicted males- I mean trans women". they're so close to saying the quiet part out loud and it's not fucking subtle at all. next time you wanna talk about how disgusted you are by trannies jerking off why don't you go tell it to your crypto-terf besties, I'm sure they'll happily agree with you.

[nothorses]

You guys love suggesting trans women are aligned with males and trans men are aligned with females so badly that it's just gross at this point, transphobia with progressive wording is still transphobia ❤️

Yall really love your binaries, huh? Genuinely wild that you think the only way a trans person can be valid is by being widely socially recognized as a single binary gender accurate to the single binary gender they identify with.

I for one am a firm believer in the fact that transphobia exists, and as such, trans people are positioned outside of the cis man/cis woman socio-political binary & allowed access to neither unless and until it conditionally supports the system's ability to do them harm, like, for example, by:

aligning trans women with women when enacting misogyny against them, but not when valuing (mostly white) women as pure, valuable, and worthy of protection

aligning trans women with men when fearmongering about "dangerous male predators infiltrating women's bathrooms" (i.e. weaponizing autonomy granted by the patriarchy), but viewing them as "failed men" otherwise, and generally not valuing them as men in the context of determining who is deserving of male privilege

aligning trans men with men when discussing the "horrors" of transition- acne, body hair, balding, bottom growth, "becoming ugly"- but not when valuing men as worthy of male privilege, or when understanding them to be autonomous

aligning trans men with women when enacting misogyny against them (typically revoking autonomy), but not when valuing (mostly white) women as inherently "safe" or The Victim; or otherwise understanding them to be "traitors" to womanhood

Trans people occupy a different social/political position than cis people do. This is not new information.

You shouldn't be participating in gender-related discourse if you genuinely cannot grasp the idea that there might be a third experience.