#what is binary options

[rosie-kairi]

Here's a little slapdash edit of the hypothetical "missing link" era Belrose, who I'm calling Laurel for reasons that should be obvious. I imagine them as being very straightforward and no-nonsense. They exist solely to hurt Brain. I wonder what they think about the fact they look almost exactly alike their deceased great-uncle-cousin whatever....

[queeringclassiclit]

Éowyn

from The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954-1955)

submitted by anon

[thismission]

lesbian rook let’s gooooooo (to kiss neve)

[saturday-byte]

Genuine question and you can ignore it if you don't wanna answer ofc but since you use he/him and she/her do you prefer a certain mix or just whatever someone settles on? or if you say which one you prefer at that moment in that convo?

I might be overthinking it (not just for you but in general) and I know everyone is different when they use multi-pronouns but I was just curious.

(again you can ignore ofc! I hope im not being invasive or rude!)

Well as you said everyone is different when they use multiple sets of pronouns , but in my case I do prefer it when people use them interchangeably - settling on only one feels a little reductive sometimes tbh

[glubandeepspace]

this is my new pride flag

[purgaytorysupremacy]

i'm applying for a fellowship that required my faculty supervisor to write me a letter of support and yesterday he very shyly emailed to say he was nearly done but wanted to confirm my pronouns. i'm a cis woman who is just very very tall (before you ask: 6'2") and uses a nickname bc my given name is too Dutch for most folks (apparently) but i have just discovered that for the last two-ish months i've been in the program, everyone has been dancing around my pronouns and substituting my name more than is normal bc no one wanted to misgender me and were apparently just waiting for someone to either use pronouns in front of me or for me to use them myself and i think i have truly reached my final queer form

[binders-and-beanies]

Pondering bottom surgery in the tags I mf guess

[mcbitchtits]

This doesn't feel relevant to anything except my own pet peeves, but it feels notable because it's Off— the way the Metatron misunderstands "give me coffee or give me death". It's not an offer of choice, it's a demand, a threat. (C.f. people not understanding what "trick or treat" means. It means bribe me to not egg your house.)

Like they're not *asking* for death. It's the consequences of fighting for what they do want, but losing. Which I suppose feels purposeful perhaps in the sense that Heaven doesn't understand People, really (nor Aziraphale)

[astralcurses]

i have such COMPLICATED feelings about gender. being a girl makes me dysphoric looking like a girl makes me dysphoric being percieved as a girl makes me dysphoric but girls give me gender envy sometimes and i wish i was a cis girl sometimes but im a guy and i like being a guy and i wish i was a cis guy and i would love to look like a girl but only sometimes but i want to be a guy and i wish i was a guy but sometimes i really wish i was a girl which is weird cuz i was born a girl but im NOT a girl and somehow my wanting to be a girl is inherently trans because even though i was born a girl its completely disconnected from my gender and this isnt making any sense to anyone but me but ARGH

sometimes i describe myself as being a gay man with the soul of a lesbian cuz that makes sense to me

[not-ur-binary]

I take online surveys to make some extra money, and let me tell you, being non binary is a pain when it comes to surveys. One asked me to describe who live in my household and gave me 2 sets of 8 different age ranges, one for male and one for female. As someone who is the only person living in their household and isn’t male or female, I did the only thing that made sense to me while not losing points from not completing the survey:

I selected my age range for male and for female.

What are they going to do, sue me?

[oysters-aint-for-me]

in order to form a more dialectical relationship with my emotions, instead of automatically resigning myself to their extremes, i've making a conscious effort to put my fan on setting #2 (medium) instead of #3 (high) or #1 (low). it is....more difficult than i anticipated

[talkingattumble]

Weirdly enough the South Park video game is the most inclusive game when it comes to choosing your characters identity? I stumbled upon this when looking for a video game that includes more than one non binary identity. I DIDNT play the game, but I did watch a playthrough and it’s kinda insane. Like the options for gender are:

Agender

Gender Fluid

Genderless

Aliagender

Androgyne

Androgynous

Aporagender

Bi-Gender

Demiflux

Gender Nonconforming

Gender Questioning

Gender Variant

Genderflux

Genderpunk

Genderqueer

Intersex

Mixed Gender

Neutrois

Non-Binary

Non-Binary Butch

Non-Binary Femme

Pangendered

Polygender

Transmasculine

Transsexual

Trigender

Two-Spirit

Demiboy

Demigirl

Demi Non-Binary

And the choices for sexuality are:

Heterosexual

Bisexual

Homosexual

Polysexual

Pansexual

Asexual

Androsexual

Gynosexual

Skoliosexual

Queer

Demisexual

And then you get to beat up some guys who are rude about your identity. Weirdly enough, as far as I know the name doesn’t like. Make fun of you for you choices?? Which is surprising. Well anyways. Wish more games had that much selection.

I don't want video games to let me choose whether my character has Penis A or Penis B, I want them to administer a comprehensive twelve-part questionnaire about how I think elves reproduce and procedurally generate a set of genitals based on my answers.

[a-queer-little-wombat]

Retainers are usually kept in a case when not in use. People often write their names on their retainer cases in case they get lost, especially if they're still in school where it's easy for the case to fall out of a backpack/pocket or get forgotten in the cafeteria. Name on the case would be an easy ID.

help

[cakechako]

ah yes the default settings: timothee chalamet or milo thatcher

[futurefind]

//hunter x supernatural trope my beloved but also rest in rip cuz sa's the only one of my muses whod do HuntingTM but also identifies more with monsters than humans and so would only have bias induced hostility against like. specific individuals with a bad rap LMFAO

[doberbutts]

With this latest round of discourse being "trans men shouldn't complain about being kicked out of women's spaces", I felt the urge to write up a relatively long post regarding the topic, as I feel it is a long tangled mess and involves a significant amount of people simply talking past each other.

To begin, what is a woman's space? I ask this, because "women's spaces" often fall under one of three categories: medical services, social services, and social gatherings. Of the three, trans men need access to nearly everything if not everything included within "medical services" and "social services". These things often need to be considered co-ed anyway, but are still considered "for women" and often are labeled things like "women's health" or "women's defense". Social gatherings- things such as book clubs, concerts, festivals, and other similar outings- can have a nuanced and complicated history when it comes to the inclusion, or exclusion, of trans men.

As an example- I am a binary, gay trans man who has not yet been sterilized. If I become pregnant and need to seek out social services, I must do so via my provider's "Women and Babies" department. I am neither of those things, and yet regardless of whether I am completing or terminating the pregnancy, I must label myself a woman in order to receive care. If I wish to have a pap smear, receive birth control, or investigate my chances of ovarian and cervical cancer, I must do so via the "Women's Health Clinic". I am not a woman, but I must label myself as one in order to discuss sterilization options. Many trans men who have had their gender markers changed prior to sterilization have reported difficulty even booking an appointment, as well as difficulty convincing their insurance to pay for this appointment due to a discrepancy with gender markers vs gendered care. Many have discussed the realities of being a pregnant man, whether they remained pregnant until their child was born, or whether they terminated said pregnancy with an abortion.

It should come as no surprise that the statistics for trans men receiving quality gynecological care are abysmal. It should be equally unsurprising to hear how many trans men have died from botched abortions, untreated miscarriages, infections and cancers of the uterus and cervix and ovaries, and complications during pregnancy or birth. We belong in this space, despite it being labeled "for women", and the only thing pushing us out has done is quite literally what's been killing us.

This is, of course, not even taking into account the numbers of trans men who have been forced to become pregnant via their husbands or families as a means to detransition them, and those who have become pregnant as a result of corrective rape. There is a saying among trans men of my age- it isn't "we all know a guy this has happened to", it's "which of us haven't experienced this? who among us doesn't fear this? who will it happen to next?"

Which brings me to my next point: women's social services. As with women's medical care, nearly everything labeled "for women" as a social service must be inclusive to trans men. Shelters for domestic violence survivors, rape crisis centers, self defense classes, family planning, these are all things that honestly should already be co-ed. But, many times, they are exclusively targeted towards women. I understand why, I do. But with trans men being statistically more likely than cis women to experience the need for these services, it seems a cruelty to close their doors to a vulnerable demographic reaching out for help.

Where should trans men in crisis go? Shutting the door to us without addressing the reason we need to access these resources gives us a single ultimatum: detransition, or die. Go back to being a woman, or die knowing the likelihood that a woman's name will adorn your headstone, and "daughter, wife, mother" will be said in your obituary. Much like the medical services, this incomplete answer has lead many trans men to their deaths. Whether by their own hands, or by their attackers'.

But there are other social services out there that perhaps are not as dire. Women's scholarships, colleges, all girls schools. Girl Scouts, women's sport leagues, gym memberships. Trans men don't need access to these, right?

Well... is the trans man in question out? Has he been living as a man, or is he still closeted? Is it safe for him to come out? Does he pass, or has he just bought his first binder and given himself his first buzz cut? Is he living under the control of his parents, or is he able to freely decide for himself the type of person he'd like to be and the type of life he'd like to live?

You see, I was a Girl Scout once. And, if we are to believe to our core that trans men are men even before they know the words "transgender", this means I was a boy in a girl's space. I didn't know that being transgender was an option for me at the point where my troop disbanded, and another leader to replace the first within my local area was not found until after I had aged out.

But also... I was in 7th grade when my troop disbanded. Two years later, I would learn the word "transgender", and suddenly everything would make sense. Two years later, I would come out to my parents and my sisters. To put this into perspective, I graduated high school in 2010. The Boy Scouts officially allowed cisgender girls and transgender people of all genders to join all programs in 2019.

I was not expelled from my Girl Scout troop. My leader simply stopped showing up to meetings, and my troop disbanded to go our separate ways when leadership could not find someone quickly enough to replace her. But... if this had not happened, I would have been a recently out transgender boy in a girl's social service, still wearing push up bras and frilly shirts because that's all my parents would buy me until I became an adult and moved out and had a job with my own money to re-purchase myself a wardrobe. Indistinguishable from any of the others, outside of what went on inside my own mind.

I would not have been accepted into the Boy Scouts, if Girl Scouts had been taken from me as abruptly as it was from a different transgender boy in the same state I was born and raised. Which would have left me with... nothing. Neither. And the only reason I even joined the Girl Scouts was because I had wanted to join the Boy Scouts and the local troop had refused to allow me, because they had labeled me a girl.

I don't believe I'm the one that coined Schrodinger's Gender, but I do reference it often. In this situation, one is both a boy when it hurts, and a girl when it hurts. Even if that gender label changes by the second, the point is to use your gender and your assigned sex to hurt you.

But then, why do these services even have to be gendered to begin with? After all, Boy Scouts just updated to be The Scouts, and has removed (on paper) the insistence on gendering.

Well... I certainly agree that the majority of gendering these services is at this point a concept that needs to be reformed, but I'm unconvinced that we will be able to completely integrate without addressing the reason they were segregated by gender in the first place.

Women's gym memberships are gender segregated for two reasons. Women and girls- and anyone labeled as women and girls, regardless of true identity- are frequently not afforded the same access to resources as cisgender men and boys. Women and girls- and anyone labeled such- are frequently at high risk of predatory sexual behavior and physical violence. Both of these problems are symptoms of a larger system of misogyny at play, and both of these problems directly affect trans men especially those who have not transitioned in a way that makes them pass for cis men.

Regardless of the truth of my identity, the reality is that I was seen as and treated as a girl when it came to physical fitness, and thus barred from the same activities freely offered to the boys. Regardless of the truth of my identity, I have experienced predatory sexual behavior from cis men as young as 8 or 9 years old, continuing past when I came out and began to transition socially.

If the problem is not addressed, cis women cannot re-integrate with cis men. But, additionally, if the problem is not addressed, the choice still remains clear for trans men. Detransition, stay closeted, or go without.

A common complaint of trans men is the invisibility and erasure our demographic faces. It should be easy to see why this happens. The problem of a misogynistic society is one that continues to this day, and without addressing the problem we cannot hope for success in creating a more inclusive space. At the same time, trans men are being pushed out and isolated as they realize they must make a choice.

As for social gatherings, such as a woman's retreat or a woman's music festival? Of course, it may sound odd to say that a trans man should feel welcome there. But the truth of the matter is the majority of the trans men asking for the ability to stay are trans men who have been within that space for years already, prior to coming out, prior to realizing some things about their genders, prior to taking their first steps as men.

I'm pretty good friends with an older butch who told me that I am the first person they ever told that they were a nonbinary man. This person is in their 50s. They're married. But the wife doesn't like it, and they love their wife too much to cause friction in the relationship, so they keep it to themselves, and they keep quiet, and they don't say anything about being transgender, but in their head they aren't a woman. This person is not a woman, by their own insistence. Should this person be forcibly ejected from their local lesbian community, which they and the wife helped form decades ago? Should they divorce their wife, since that would make her not a lesbian anymore?

What harm is it, truly, to allow this person to stay? Social isolation kills people. The trans man suicide statistics are just as abysmal as any of the others I've mentioned here. Forcing someone to burn 20, 30, 40 years of their lives and their friends and their achievements because they are finally living as themselves is a deeply hurtful and isolating experience.

The majority of trans men asking to be included in these spaces are not trans men like me- who never really jived with the idea of womanhood and distanced ourselves as much as possible the moment we saw the opportunity. They are men like my friend, often existing outside of the binary, often with a deep love and appreciation for womanhood despite realizing that perhaps the label does not fit them as well as they once thought. They often have many years of connection, entire lives spent intwined in these spaces.

What good does it do to chase them out? What harm does it to do let them stay?