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How can someone be both trans and non-binary? I thought trans was literally identifying as the other of the binary gender than one’s birth sex while non-binary means rejecting the binary concept as a whole…
Yeah I find this confusing too. I mean I’m happy for people to live however they wanna live and whatever makes them happy but I’m kind of confused on how you could feel it be so essential to your identity and being that you have the intense need to reject your birth gender and transition to the opposite gender… but then simultaneously go out of your way to say “eh I dont really care about gender, I dont identify as either” ?
Seems kinda like a guy with no hair going out of his way to get a hair transplant, but then choosing to shave his head every morning when he wakes up lol
I dunno, it just seems like almost definitionally true/mutually exclusive that a nonbinary person could not also simultaneously be trans… bc if you dont identify with either gender, then what did you transition to?
Neither. Non binary people can feel just as strongly about their gender identity as an other trans person. Just instead of a trans women who feels they’re a women not a man, someone who’s nonbinary doesn’t identify with either being a man or a women. For some people this could mean just changing pronouns, for others this could mean some physical transition but not all (for example I know Non binary people that were assigned males at birth and take estrogen, but participate in no other medical transition). They’re trans becuase they’re identifying as any gender that isnt their assigned gender at birth
It’s a bit confusing. Non-Binary doesn’t mean no gender, it just means non-conforming. So it’s still a gender technically, but it’s not male, female or gender-neutral. I might be wrong though.
How can someone be both trans and non-binary? I thought trans was literally identifying as the other of the binary gender than one’s birth sex while non-binary means rejecting the binary concept as a whole…
Yeah I find this confusing too. I mean I’m happy for people to live however they wanna live and whatever makes them happy but I’m kind of confused on how you could feel it be so essential to your identity and being that you have the intense need to reject your birth gender and transition to the opposite gender… but then simultaneously go out of your way to say “eh I dont really care about gender, I dont identify as either” ?
Seems kinda like a guy with no hair going out of his way to get a hair transplant, but then choosing to shave his head every morning when he wakes up lol
I dunno, it just seems like almost definitionally true/mutually exclusive that a nonbinary person could not also simultaneously be trans… bc if you dont identify with either gender, then what did you transition to?
Neither. Non binary people can feel just as strongly about their gender identity as an other trans person. Just instead of a trans women who feels they’re a women not a man, someone who’s nonbinary doesn’t identify with either being a man or a women. For some people this could mean just changing pronouns, for others this could mean some physical transition but not all (for example I know Non binary people that were assigned males at birth and take estrogen, but participate in no other medical transition). They’re trans becuase they’re identifying as any gender that isnt their assigned gender at birth
It’s a bit confusing. Non-Binary doesn’t mean no gender, it just means non-conforming. So it’s still a gender technically, but it’s not male, female or gender-neutral. I might be wrong though.
Oh no I think I’ve gone cross eyed