#bigender culture is

[a-mentally-ill-nerd]

Being bigender is great because I can say things like

[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

[em0-opossum]

"can I be [x gender] if I..." "can I still call myself [x term] if..." yes. yes. if you like the term then use it. do whatever you want forever. labels are just little words we use to categorize our infinitely complex existential experiences on this floating rock !! no two people who use the same label are going to experience it the same way and that's the beauty of it !! use "contradictory" labels, use labels that don't make sense to anyone, change your label every day or not at all, explore anything and everything, use no labels at all or every label under the sun, confuse people or correct them or let them assume things rather than explaining, I promise nothing other people think about your identity is worth your happiness !!

[justdavina]

Strikingly HOT transgender girl! Who's warm eyes are so inviting! I could gaze into those soft brown eyes as I kiss her wonderful lips! Her powder puff coat with a baby blue top is so perfect! Kisses!

[that-bisexual]

I thought it was a feminine day and then someone referred to me as a girl and I switched flipped and I realized it was a androgynous day.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

This is "atheism is a religion." Or "atheists are angry at god/worship the devil/worship themselves." They won't let you just not be part of the thing. Saying you're not part of the thing becomes a way of being part of the thing.

No, I don't accept the underlying premise of your belief, that incorporeal sexed thetans have been incompetently sorted by Xenu's intern into mismatched meat prisons.

I don't know who told you that every mundane thing about your personality deserves its own flag and special day, but you've been wildly misinformed.

[punkeropercyjackson]

I literally do not understand how most people perfer punk as just the aesthetic after knowing about the culture.Sickest music ever,learning to make your own shit,UNlearning internalized bigotry,helping people,being weird as fuck,breaking the law,sense of community and solidarity,kids looking up to you and getting them join in.What is the downside compared to looking cool with piercings and dyed hair but not even being willing to be rude to people who actually deserve it instead of trying to be Mcu quip-adjacent,it's like we're an entirely different species.Are you guys afraid to develop personalities?Is that why you kin Mcu characters?

[jasontoddssuper]

Sure you say you want to date a punk guy and are always talking about how hot and boyfriend/husband material we are.But would you date a black punk man without being weird about his race or an autistic punk dude without putting him down.Are you including fat and/or physically disabled punks when you talk like that.Do you think you could be a good partner to those of us who're trans,be we femme or butch or inbetween or something else entierly.Are you nice to kids and older folks.Do you want to do activism and fight corruption with us.Would you actually enjoy even just participating in the more lighthearted and 'fun' parts of our culture with us like our music and fashion and inside jokes.You wanna date a punk guy or you want a d*ddy d*m who looks edgy and calls himself a revolutionary with no basis?

[crossdreamers]

TV series Gen V delivers transgender representation with shapeshifting bigender superhero

Beatrice Fanucci writes about transgender representation in the new TV series Gen V:

One of the main characters, Jordan Li, is a bigender shapeshifting superhero:

Jordan has the ability to shift between male and female presenting versions of themselves, each with their own power. And while there have been instances of shapeshifting powers being used as a metaphor for transness in TV before, what makes Jordan’s character truly unique is the fact that they openly identify as bigender.

Bigender refers to a person who has two gender identities or a combination of two gender identities and who may switch between the two.

The series manage to give a pretty good picture of how a modern social media-driven culture can treat people who do not live up to the traditional gender binary.

See also What ‘Gen V’s Gender-Shifting Supe Reveals About Powers and Identity over at CDL.

Gen V can be found on Amazon Prime.

[religiousqueer-inbox]

christian queer culture is feeling like the people who are trying to tell me that i don't love Jesus and that he hates me, haven't actually been paying attention to what Jesus said. Jesus doesn't hate, that's like his whole thing. why would he care that i'm a bigender lesbian? (he wouldn't)

💯

[sapphic-cultureis]

Bigender sapphic culture is having attraction to a person whose gender is unclear and thinking “am I attracted to them in a sapphic way or in an achillean way…”

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[transfemasc-culture-is]

Transmascfem bigender intersex culture is tucking your attached dick in because you want to pack with a larger one.

It’s also getting Gynecomastia top surgery and getting excited because you can now wear the breastplates / breast padding sizes you want without your chest being hyper-sensitive (but still having the option to be flat when you want to be)

I love my modular body forever <3

transfemasc culture is...!

[justdavina]

Such a cute dress on this very pretty transgender girl!

[mouseratz]

it also seems like a lot of people rightly picked up on terfs' problems with gender bioessentialism, but in doing so, completely ignored the other half of the equation: the idea of "gender socialization" also being this weird, innate, mythical force. I'm not implying it doesn't occur at all- clearly, parents raise people they perceive to be their sons vs daughters somewhat differently...but this varies a lot based on cultural norms anyway, and is only a piece of your whole upbringing regardless, even if it's very strict and has a negative effect on you, and people do treat you differently in the here and now based on what gender they perceive you as. the phrase isn't totally useless.

However, I've seen the idea of "gender socialization" that it's something that truly determines parts of your personality in this unshakeable way, that it has created you as a product of their vision (when, in reality, if it was that effective and internalized so completely, trans people wouldn't exist at all. you'd just be more comfortable as your assigned gender, because your personality already has been molded to fit it perfectly) actually seems to be really popular in otherwise progressive places and goes totally unquestioned. and it's weird as fuck!

people then, in the same breath they criticize transphobes' assortment of assumptions based upon assigned sex, turn around and start talking about how they just feel nicer around "female socialized" people and feel threatened around "male socialized" people. do you see a problem here?

banging pots and pans. assigned gender doesn't fucking matter and it never has. it is assigned for a reason. someone chose it for you! they made up all this shit about you based on the genitals you had when you were a baby! doesn't that upset you? why are you desperate to recreate a binary? it's somehow even worse to go from "genitals of baby is the reason you are a gender" to "the way people treated you as a child is the reason you are a gender". it's not better, in any case! if we want shit to get less transphobic (and in the context of recent discussions, transmisogynistic specifically) we have to throw this one out. it's not a good idea. it sucks. I don't want it, why do you still want it? female and male socialization isn't a thing. not in the way you're talking about it.

[userbox-factory]

requested by anonymous-"this user is a catboygirl"

[chemicalarospec]

Genderqueer People

I recently learned that “cisgender” and “transgender” can be called “gender modalities” (ways of relating to one’s assigned gender at birth) and that other gender modalities have been coined, including:

ISOGENDER

a gender modality that refers to when one is not cisgender, but also does not identify as transgender either

I like to think of it as being inbetween cis and trans. (edit: but that is not its definition. Also there have been other gender modalities coined very similar to "isogender", but none of them are exactly defined as that either.)

This term is super helpful to multigender people who identify with their agab, nb people who are aligned with their agab and don't feel "trans" because of it, some genderfluid/flux people, and even agender people won't don't feel trans because they don't have a gender at all!

This term really clicked with me and I hope it connects with other people too!

PS: here is a flag! I think it was just made by a blog that makes flags for everything. (There is another, but it is ugly imo.)