1: We do not tolerate bigotry of any kind. This includes but is not limited to: enbyphobia, transphobia, misogyny, racism, ableism, homophobia, etc.
2: No harassment! This includes but is not limited to: stalking, harassing, and threatening posters.
3: Do not post sexually explicit content! Not just out of respecting the law of volcel territory, but so you don't dox yourself either!
4: Absolutely no libs, so this means no capitalism and imperialism apologia.
5: Completely refrain from validating de-facto gender binaries! This includes assuming certain characteristics on the basis of assigned sex or believing that there is some inherent, categorically relevant difference between enbies of different assigned sexes. In other words, none of the typical "AMAB or AFAB?" or "Are you a boy enby or a girl enby?" kind of shit that has gotten many of us to cringe nowadays. By extension, this rule automatically entails NO BIOESSENTIALISM within its con
Also I wish this com was more active but I also kinda struggle articulating my feelings on enby gender stuff so I haven't really been contributing either lol whoops sorry
It's been a good while since the contradictions sharpened hard enough for me to just be like "I changed my sex this past year" and start putting my entire self under the label "nb". This rules, btw, it's been very healthy for me. It was distinctly not a Very Special Episode
I think it has presented some terminology and labelling/word trouble though, as much as internal re-sexing of the body is awesome and cool and rad. One of the best examples I can think of is that I kinda wanted an alternative for "wife", on account that my partner is agender. Between us, we didn't really come up with anything good, though? I do like saying "my beautiful better half" a lot, but there are many sentences where that doesn't sub in 1:1 for "wife", and tbh we might also continue use of that...
Realized I was fluctuating in how I feel about this personally for my sense of self and was wondering how other enby ppl feel about it?
Sometimes I feel totally baffled by other people's gender and gendered social norms and cues and feel pretty strongly agender, other times I feel a pretty strong sense of my gender as being a positive kind of "thing in itself" that isn't a woman and definitely not a man, but there aren't really universally understood cues and roles for what that is interacting with cis ppl
I feel like I might be better off if I were in a culture that had an understood tradition of a third gender role but I struggle to articulate what that is
It's somewhere between futch femme and lightly masc queer "boi"? Idk
It didn't feel right IDing as a binary trans woman, but it was much better than cis guy, and enby feels right as a label but I sometimes feel like I'm not "trans enough?" Idk
I like femmy stuff sometimes but most of my clothing and style are fairly unisex
Though the "Soy disrupts hormone levels and causes feminization!"
broscience shit is obviously a myth, as an androgynous vegan who is really loving the effects of estrogen (that I definitely got from
and not little blue pills, by the way) and has this like "my gender is really whatever you wanna make of it, if it even is to exist" dynamic going on in terms of how I identify, soyboy just kinda hits, y'know?
Obviously, reclamation only goes so far, especially for a pejorative neologism that is a bit more memey and weak, so it's something that I wouldn't throw out as a serious label when sharing a detailed description of my gender identity, but the term is a vibe
it's hard to know exactly what to call this because the way someone approaches hormones has nothing to do with "how nonbinary" they are. but i still know there are ways to use hormones in ways outside of the typical pathways and that plenty of us find that fits us better. but I haven't seen a lot of information about what the options are, and infos about safety.
but to be clear about the kind thing i'm talking about, i mean doing HRT in ways intended to move more towards physical androgyny, your own balance between masculinisation and feminisation, or being able to be selective about the effects you get from your hormone regime. for example, taking non-monotherapy levels of E without blocking T, low dose T, use of DHT blockers, and more.
i'm not looking for personal advice, more like inviting people to share their experiences of doing HRT this way, and anything else they might wanna share, like their aims, mistakes (since sometimes we're making guesses due to reduced medical care a