#cis gnc

[shk0lstun-flagz]

GNC

Gender-nonconforming

A person who doesn’t adhere to societal pressures to conform to gender norms and roles

[lesbianpolls]

Q: Lesbians who are also men/boys, what is your reason for that?

A: Multigender and/or genderfluid, transmasc nonbinary lesbian, trans man who still ids as lesbian, butch/gnc/pnc/tomboy lesbian who likes to be called man/boy, cusper (on the cusp/between being trans and cis gnc), system whose identities overlap/collective identity, multiple of these, other

[gnc-culture-is]

cis genderqueer gnc afab culture is not being able to decide whether you're a futch or soft butch but knowing you want to overall confuse people whenever you come across them

Best of luck.

[midwestemokilledmygrandma]

i do think for the world to be a better place that is more accepting of trans people that we have to stop assuming people who are gnc are automatically trans/going to realise they are trans/going to grow up to be trans.

not even in a gatekeeping being trans way because anyone can be trans and if you say you are trans then.. you are.

but acting like trans people are the only gnc people in society really reinforces both the sex and gender binaries when it is truly not that serious.

normalise exploration of gender idk... bcs also not all cis crossdressers or cis gnc ppl are our allies and putting them byproxy into trans spaces is quite dangerous 4 us as well

not to be like "let cis ppl be gnc!!" bcs obviously this is a very internetification of an issue bcs in the real world cis gncness is obviously way more accepted than transness but in trans spaces online I do rly think we need to stop equating being gender non conforming with being trans

[project-sekai-facts]

i'm curious why you feel confident in saying that mizuki was trans, it feels like the story itself only explicitly stated that she's amab - i would really like for it to be confirmed but it feels a bit like jumping the gun

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but considering how uncomfortable Mizuki is with classmates calling her a boy, and how she's gone out of her way to not have N25 know this, and how she reacted to Ena being asked "If you're friends with Mizuki, are you [a cis girl] a boy too?", idk man I think I can jump the gun.

Plus everything in the trans Mizuki post. The blatant use of the trans flag colors, people calling younger Mizuki "weird" and asking "isn't it odd for you to wear that" when she goes into school in typically girly clothes for the first time, Mizuki having short hair and boys clothes in middle school but long hair and girls clothes in high school, her sister encouraging her to stop repressing and live her life on her own terms.

Like. This is Mizuki's reaction to classmates telling Ena that Mizuki is a guy. It's the fact they asked a cis girl if she was a boy to try and justify why she was friends with Mizuki. Like there's some sort of implication there that they think Mizuki is pretending to be a girl. Yeah sure maybe they'll turn around and say Mizuki is a crossdresser despite everything, but Mizuki being told "isn't it weird for you to dress [like a girl]", "it's just for attention" "it's just a phase". It resonates so much with the trans experience, these are word for word things that trans people hear, and then you can couple that with clpl saying they aim to portray their character's struggles realistically.

Like. Let's get this straight. The boys who ask Ena if "[she's] a guy too" are presumably the same ones who have been showing up in the story since the beginning, being portrayed as bullies. Them calling Mizuki a boy, and making fun of her for dressing in a feminine way, is presented as bullying. Going off that translation doc since sekaibest still doesn't have the script, they follow up that scene by saying that Ena is a "normal girl". Normal is the key word here. Ena is a "normal" (cis) girl to them which implies they view Mizuki as an "abnormal girl" (trans girl), or they outright just call her a guy. Yikes.

Again. Mizuki's reaction to the bullying speaks volumes. Mizuki had gone through such lengths to hide this from her friends. It feels way too much for them to just say she's a gnc cis boy at the end of it. Listen, if gender wasn't related here, she wouldn't have nearly this much issue with her friend being told she's a gender the story has repeatedly proven that she doesn't want to identify as and have other people identify her with. Simply from the perspective of a screenwriter.

...also mizuki is literally grouped as a girl for gameplay purposes and always has been? And ensekai at least at launch made the executive decision to use she/her for Mizuki.

But if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

[sualne]

your body isn't your own

[lesbianb]

disabled butches who aren't physically strong, who need help from caretakers, who use mobility aids, wear medical braces, etc... you're wonderful butches just as you are, and don't need to prove yourself to anyone

[marzipanandminutiae]

I have a question, where would gnc/trans people get their clotges in the days before the selling of premade clothes? I assume some was stealing from relatives, and that soem of them did know how to make clothes, but that doesn't seem at all likely to be the most common method

That is an amazing question!

Unfortunately for a lot of people, we don't really know- many trans folks flew under the radar and as such details of their lives are unclear. Legendary stagecoach driver Charley Parkhurst, for example, left no sort of record as to where he got his clothes (especially since he lived in a cabin in the middle of nowhere for many years of his life). And figures like Mary Jones, a Black trans sex worker from the early 19th century, flit into and out of the pages of history so quickly that there's barely enough info to get their vital statistics, let alone shopping habits.

However, my guesses would be as follows:

Secondhand shops. These have existed for a very long time, and if you already have at least one outfit that makes you read as the correct gender, nobody would question you going through that section of the store/market/whatever.

Sympathetic conventional tailors or dressmakers. This is almost certainly where middle- and upper-class GNC or trans people got their clothing- one can hardly imagine legendary writer George Sand buying her suits secondhand, after all. And since humans have always been human, and Let People Dress How They Please; They Aren't Hurting Anyone is a sentiment I've seen at least as far back as the 19th century, I suspect there were far more of these than many people might think.

Clothing workshops catering to the demimonde- that is, to theatrical companies for costumes, or to sex workers. Certainly this is where drag performers got their stage gear, and one imagines people for whom gender variance crossed the line from performance to identity- like Fanny Park and Stella Boulton -might have turned to their costumers for everyday attire, too. And catering to sex workers probably got all sorts of requests that were seen as outre for the time (in a roleplay capacity- most sex workers dressed conventionally while not actively Doing Sex), but their money was as good as anyone else's.

Friends and relatives. Some families knowingly supported their crossdressing or trans loved ones. Even partners who married the person in question as the binary opposite gender could fall into this category- Lili Elbe (though she lived after premade dresses began to rise in popularity) first experimented with feminine attire in dresses and jewelry loaned by her enthusiastically supportive wife Gerta Gottlieb. In fact, Gottlieb was bisexual, and their marriage was only annulled because Lili was a woman now and same-gender marriage was illegal in Denmark at the time.

Also yes stealing from your relatives was also an option, of course. if they were less than sympathetic

The king of France???? this is the wildcard, and my absolute favorite: the Chevaliere d'Eon, when she transitioned in the 1770s, got the king to not only formally state that she had been assigned female at birth (there had been speculation about her physical sex for years at this point) but to pay for her new wardrobe of gowns. Absolute Queen.

"but didn't her mantua-makers notice Some Physical Things?" she's believed to have had some form of gynecomastia, based on her autopsy, and they'd never have cause to see her in less than her calf-length chemise. if they did see anything, they kept their mouths shut, and rightly so.

[nonbinarynow]

Genderqueer ≠ Non-binary

Genderqueer isn't just a thing nonbinary people are. Heck, it's not even a thing only trans people are. "Genderqueer" is an adjective, turned into a noun for some but gender queerness, queered gender can really describe any non typical, politicised relationship to gender. A cis genderqueer person may be a twink, a drag artist, a tomboy, a femboy, a femme, a butch, a stud, a crossdresser, a cis person who uses atypical pronouns for their gender, a transvestite or any other gender nonconformist. A binary trans person may easily consider their binary gender status as genderqueer due to the politicised existence of binary transness, a percieved atypical transition or because they live queerly as a binary gendered person. Obviously, enben have an inherent genderqueerness; this is our living status for many of us who wish to live authentically. Our genders by being not binary, are queer. Some politicise it on purpose, honing into the nonbinary liberationist stance. Some are genderqueers and that is their noun, their whole identity. It is an adjective label but can also be a noun, even for the binary trans and cisgender people who are genderqueers.

Queering gender and a queer experience with gender in relation to the world is vast and not limited only to nonbinary people specifically. That's why I have the tags cis genderqueer and binary genderqueer. In many places where people say nonbinary, they describe gender queerness. I understand why the two might be conflated but there is a distinction; they are not the same.

[david-goldrock]

Since this is tumblr, I just wanna check

Please reblog to enlarge the sample size

[gnc-culture-is]

Being gender non conforming and cis doesn’t mean somebody is a trans egg AND also they are not a traitor to their previous identity if they end up being one.

Being gender non conforming and trans doesn’t mean somebody is about to detransition AND they are not a traitor if they end up detransitioning.

Being a man and a woman or any other kind of multigender is not a contradictory state of being, likewise. Being isogender or cistrans is a fine thing to be and I love you.

Throw off the shackles that suggest you must be one or the other and that transformation of any kind is a betrayal of how you once were.

[justdavina]

Such a perfect girl to take on a date to my favorite drag club in San Francisco! Who want's to come to San Francisco and go to all the drag bars in the city with me?

I love the goth look!!

[dol-dogboy]

Happy gay month have these half filled ship memes that I totally didn’t forget to post a week ago

Feel free to fill out the other side with ur pcs <3

[indooroutdoorboyfriend]

if you have a trans/nonbinary/genderqueer/gender-nonconforming von valancius, you are obligated to introduce me to them btw

[apas-95]

'transmisogyny is the intersection between the axes of misogyny and transphobia, the specific oppression applied to trans people who are also women, composite of those social systems of repression directed against those two groups separately, but also possessing unique character greater than the sum of its parts' vs 'transmisogyny is a vague ideological miasma, that aren't we really *all* victims of? how are cis people and men in the intersection of transphobia and misogyny? no clue. and really aren't some white men victims of misogynoir too?'

[wardentabriis]

Speaking of trans Rook appreciation, I'd also like to appreciate the trans Wardens/Hawkes/Inquisitors who didn't get the same options Rook did, but were trailblazers nevertheless! Love them all!