Self-determination for trans people is nothing new. Sir Ewan Forbes changed the sex on his birth certificate in the 1940s, announced his new name in the newspaper and legally married his wife. His cousin challenged the change for reasons of inheritance, but the judge ruled in Ewan’s favour.
Made the Knave name generator, and it works fine. But it only has charts for male and female names. I definitely also want 100 nonbinary fantasy character names. Suggestions?
Breaking news: We've taken the next step to challenge the ban on puberty blockers
We have asked for an urgent hearing that will seek to quash the ban. It is clear that this ban is having a devastating - and harmful - impact on young trans people and we do not believe that waiting is an option.
Hey there friend, I'm Bwee! I'm your local positivity-spreading fluffdragon.
💙 I'm #Nonbinary#Trans and use they/them pronouns.
💙 I live in QC, Canada with my husband @WahFo.
💙 I am an immigrant to Canada and do not speak French.
💙 I am an animal parent for several arachnids, a ball python and 2 cats.
💙 Art of my fluffdragon self can be found at http://saybwee.carrd.co !
💙 I'm a #furry, and an #otherkin#shapeshifter!
💙 I was born in 1983!
💙 I absolutely love animals. Please send me all your pet photos, I will love you FOREVER.
My main goal here is to spread genuine, loving, compassionate positivity and to help bring a little light to my friends' timelines.
I adore you! Thank you for considering following me! You make me so happy, just by being you. :3
are you transmasc and looking for an instance that better reflects you? consider joining us on cooltrans.men!
we are a space focused on providing a haven for all people under the transmasculine umbrella. (trans man, nonbinary transmasculine, demiboy, agender man, bigender, "vaguely a guy" etc.)
regardless of whether you're on hrt, your exact gender identity and experiences as a transmasculine person, you are welcome here!
#TwoSpirit people were the first targets of attempts to assimilate Native people into white culture because our identities were so incongruous with European values. Two Spirits represent the #Indigenous view of gender and sexuality-- one that is fluid, not fixed, not sex essentialist. #Queer people are essential to #Native communities.
To kick off this year's :_gaysparkle: Pride Month :_gaysparkle: I was asked to write an article for a LGBTQIA+ site. So I decided to turn my queer, autistic, goldfish brain towards a trans/enby topic that I'm trying to understand better: The journey of—and impact on—friends and family of a transgender person undergoing transition.
I want to hear from anyone who has been a friend, family member, or partner of someone who is transitioning/has transitioned.
Specifically, the following:
Did it have an emotional impact on you? What was it?
Do you feel that you underwent a period of mourning for the "person you knew"?
What did your reaction look like and, knowing what you do now, would you change anything about it?
If you are trans, first off you're lovely :heart_trans:, secondly I also want to hear from you about your perspective on if/how it changed your relationships. Was it taken positively by those around you? Was it not? How did others' reactions impact you?
I want to hear the good and the bad. I want to know what went well and what people struggled with.
If you feel comfortable responding in the replies, please do, as I'd like your answers to be visible for anyone else who goes on this journey.
If you don't feel comfortable sharing publicly, then please DM me, email me, or reach out on Matrix (contact info in profile)
And this should go without saying, but be kind to each other in the replies—even if you disagree. I'd hate to ban anyone for being an asshat.
Thank you all so much in advance, it means a lot to me, and I'm sure it will mean a lot to plenty of other people too.
"Eurovision winner Nemo urges Switzerland to recognise third gender - First non-binary person to win song contest calls for home country to allow third-gender entries on official documents"
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“A non-binary person who officially doesn’t exist in #Switzerland has won #Eurovision 2024 for us all with #BreakTheCode,” a Green party politician, Sibel Arslan, who in 2017 proposed allowing non-binary designations in Switzerland, wrote on social media."
We've been hearing an increasing number of reports of trans people's GPs refusing to prescribe their HRT to them - even if they have a letter from an NHS gender clinic requesting that they do.
With everything going on in the world to restrict access to gender-affirming hormone therapy, it's even more important that folks know where they can find info on doing this as safely as possible :TransHeart: :NonBinaryHeart: :AgenderHeart: :BiGenderHeart: :DemiBoyHeart: :DemiGirlHeart: :GenderfluidHeart: :GenderqueerHeart: :2SpiritHeart: :IntersexHeart:
You'll find almost everything you need to get started at the below:
"Hey, totally unrelated, and if this is too personal then please just ignore me, lol. What exactly was your experience like, figuring out that you're nonbinary, and roughly when did that happen?
" —Someone I know on Matrix
I responded in chat, but figured my answers might be of broader interest to people who are enby(or Alice)-curious 😋 So here it goes...
⚠️ CW for some slurs and gender stereotyping ⚠️
The short of it is that a couple years ago my kid expressed to me that they weren't sure if they were their assigned gender. To be supportive, I started learning everything I could about being trans. Eventually, they decided that they were okay with their birth gender (at least for now, and maybe forever), but I realized I wasn't okay with mine.
I've always been :_gaysparkle: queer™ :_gaysparkle:, and I've always sort of skirted gender norms (leaning more heavily one way or another as I grew up), but I was raised in a time (the 80s/90s) and environment (latchkey kid with no [living] LGBT+ family members) where transgender people weren't really "a thing". There were "cross-dressers", and "trannies", and several other slurs, but it all got reduced to a "fetish" or "sickness" at the end.
I didn't feel like I had any sort of (relevant) fetish, and I didn't think I was sick, so it must be "something else".
Basically, I didn't have the vocabulary to express that I was nonbinary, or to know it was even an option not to be my assigned gender.
But don't get me wrong, I've never identified particularly strongly with either extreme of traditional gender presentation. Looking back through the lens of what I know now, there were a lot of things I was dysphoric about (and several that still get to me), but at the time I just thought I was weird or that everyone else felt the same and no one mentioned it.
So I didn't mention it either.
Now that I'm older, better informed, and give even fewer fucks what other people think about how I express myself, it's surprising to me that it took so long to figure things out.
So unlike some trans people who strongly associated with their non-assigned gender from an early age, and some nonbinary folk who collect genders like Pokémon, I'm the kind of enby who just gives a lot less importance to which gender I take my influences from—as long as I like the aesthetic or it makes me feel more "me", then we're all good.
So I think I'm probably somewhere around a...um, Alice(?) when it comes to my gender expression 🙃
It's still a work in progress, but as it stands now:
I hardly wear makeup 💄 (except nail polish 💅🏻)
Most of my clothes are marketed as being for women, but are pretty unisex —save for my cute socks and underwear 🧦👙
I like pinks and purples...a lot 💜
I like having muscle definition 💪🏻
I can't stand body hair 🪒
I like my tits, but I'm glad they're small 🧁🧁
I've had short hair for most of my adult life, but I'm having fun growing it out again like when I was a kid 👩🏻🦲👩🏻🦰
I dislike most sports, except of course for locksport 🔓 and Bloodsport (1998) 🩸
It feels super-awkward listing off all the stereotypically gendered things about me that I can think of. The idea of a color or a haircut being "for boys" or "for girls" just seems weirdly restrictive and arbitrary.
If you made it this far, neat! You get a cookie 🍪
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me anything.
If you have any comments or relevant experiences, please share.
David Tennant: “I remember gay rights being weaponised politically. That always felt ugly & nasty… 30 years later & those people are clearly on the wrong side of history. Now there is a similar weaponisation of these topics… to create friction & conflict & division where it needn’t be. It’s just about people being themselves. You don’t need to be bothered about it. F**k off & let people be”
Discrimination against nonbinary people is real, and a new study from a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto is shining a light on one way it can happen.
please help my friend Evel! xen is #Indigenous, #trans, #disabled, exhausted, and has a family to support. xen is fundraising for their monthly bills and housing. anything helps! more monthly subscribers would really help xen's anxiety!
One of the scariest parts of coming out is coming out at work. Unlike your family--blood or chosen--work is just a bunch of people who get thrown together, mishmash, and have to make things work out.
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, it's a guide to give to your coworkers when they get that wide-eyed look and think "Oh, s#!t, my coworker just told me they're trans." At least, it should keep people from asking what's in your goddamned pants.
I support #intersectional, anti-racist, anti-ableistic, anti-capitalistic #feminism, #LGBTQIA+ rights, and left-progressive thinking. :progressprideheart:
The Federal Republic joins 20 countries which have passed laws allowing people to declare their own legal gender. I hope someday this will apply across the whole EU.
On a more personal level, this means I can finally change my own legal gender to #nonbinary 🎉🏳️⚧️