Trump is using the white supremacy playbook of "protecting women" and "protecting children" to uphold the colonizing, patriarchal notion of the gender binary.
“Using the language of ‘child protection’ to justify the oppression of trans youth betrays the very values this month is meant to uphold.”
10 #icons from #history you didn't know were #nonbinary
While "nonbinary" may be a term that some people have only learned in recent years, there have been people throughout #history who have #fought the #GenderBinary and bucked #traditional gendernorms.
#Women #Nonbinary #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #History #RoleModels #Representation #Culture
The #demigirl #identity: #Breakingfree from the #GenderBinary
As the world evolves, so does the #LGBTQ+ #community, constantly expanding its #vocabulary and #understanding of #diverse #genderidentities.
#Nonbinary #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GenderIdentity #Representation #Culture
https://www.queerty.com/the-demigirl-identity-breaking-free-from-the-gender-binary-20240707
"Others have proposed that individuals with autism are more prone to reject ideas they perceive as flawed or logically inconsistent (Kristensen & Broome, 2016), such as social conditioning and social norms (Ansara & Hegarty, 2011), and this facilitates 'coming out.'"
You don't fit in binary boxes because nonbinary people are too great for them.
You've outgrown them.
Go and mix up the "women's" and "men's" sections until the division is meaningless. Take the gender roles that have harmed you and twist them into being yours. Subvert, shift, and change the binary until it breaks from only two to infinite.
Our gift to the world as nonbinary people is destroying the constraints that the gender binary places on all people who come into contact with it.
#Father in #genderreveal that sparked #deadly #wildfire pleads #guilty to #manslaughter #charges
The #ElDoradoFire erupted Sept. 5, 2020, when #RefugioJimenezJr. and #AngelinaJimenez staged a #photo #shoot with their young #children for their #baby #genderreveal.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #GenderBinary
Nonbinary people are often told that if we were just "logical" enough, then we'd accept the gender binary.
The fact is, most nonbinary terminology and ideas are logical and reliable if you learn about them. We have also addressed (along with many others) the cultural origins of the gender binary and it's shortcomings.
Now, I'm not here to write a paper, so let me just say this; what's really illogical is refusing to learn the above facts in the first place and then getting angry when you don't understand.
Unlearning your own internalized, binary thinking takes determination and time.
Learning to embrace yourself as an exception to the gender binary takes effort and time.
Give yourself some room to mess up in the process. It’s not a failing. It’s natural.
How #Gender Is #Policed in #America. #PaisleyCurrah’s wide-ranging #study #SexIsasSexDoes examines how #transphobia #emerged in #America as a result of #contradictory and #SelfServing #sexclassification #policies
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Sex #Gender #GenderRoles #GenderNorms #GenderBinary #TERFS #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/paisley-currah-transgender-history/
Being nonbinary means that you are powerful.
Despite being raised in the constant and likely unchallenged mythology of the gender binary, you found your place beyond it.
Such strength and awareness will be a benefit to you and everyone who knows you.
In this narrative of #goodversusevil, of #Christians versus #Demons, of the #genderbinary versus “#genderideology,” it is not the #transgender #child #suffering from #homelessness who is the #victim but the #parent who #rejects that #child.
You don't have to be consistently "feminine" or "masculine" in your appearance as a nonbinary person if you don't want to be. You don't have to engage with either at all.
Those categories are very subjective and flexible for us. Bend and mix them for your use. Invent something new.
"One is not #born, but rather becomes, a #woman. No #biological, #psychological, or #economic destiny defines the figure that the #human #female acquires in #society; it is #civilization as a whole that develops this product, intermediate between female and #eunuch, which one calls #feminine. Only the mediation of another can establish an #individual as an #Other. In so far as he exists for himself, the #child would not be able to understand himself as sexually differentiated. In #girls as in #boys the #body is first of all the radiation of a #subjectivity, the instrument that accomplishes the comprehension of the world: it is through the eyes, the hands, and not through the sexual parts that children apprehend the universe."
—Simone de #Beauvoir, philosopher and social theorist, in The Second Sex (1949)
Just my favorite Second Wave feminist, shattering the entire concept of the gender binary and "biological womanhood" in one masterful swoop.
Making a place for yourself as a nonbinary person in many of today's societies is difficult.
Jobs, family roles, even hobbies all tend to be gendered, which isn't very helpful for anyone and it's easy to get lost trying to navigate it.
Things might be messy now, but in time you will find your way.
Take your time in working out your life. There's no rush.
This Southern #Mexico #Community Has #Challenged the #GenderBinary for #generations
#Muxes, a group long recognized within the #indigenous #Zapotec #people of #Mexico, are often referred to as a #thirdgender
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Mexico #IndigenousPeople #Representation #Culture
https://www.advocate.com/mexico/mexico-third-gender-muxes
Work out your priorities in life based on what you specifically need, not what you're supposed to want.
As a nonbinary person, you've already thrown out the gender binary. Might as well do away with the arbitrary social norms holding you back, too.
Nonbinary people are truly amazing.
Having the courage to explore and accept that you are not only different from your agab, but also removed from the binary is incredible.
If you can, enjoy this accomplishment. Take some time to appreciate how far you have come and against so many odds.
You are powerful people. Don’t ever forget that.
