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I did. >at least with our current social assumptions Recognition of gender outside the binary is the exception rather than the rule, and people all around you
by sascha_sl 5y ago
I did.
>at least with our current social assumptions
Recognition of gender outside the binary is the exception rather than the rule, and people all around you make assumptions all the time that you can't correct. It's just descriptive of material circumstances that nonbinary people will face ignorance. We've made some progress, but it's slow.
As a non-binary trans woman, it is absolutely common to have a "fallback binary gender" you'd rather be associated with facing this. You know, for casual encounters, when you don't feel like explaining yourself in detail. Or when accessing trans healthcare, which is often very binary and gatekeepy of everything else (for instance, in Germany you often get denied HRT with F64.8 "Other gender identity disorders", only F64.0 "Transsexualism" is eligible)
Funnily enough, TERFs often want trans people to simply pretend like these conditions do not exist, and that it is their personal responsibility as non-cis people to further gender abolitionism (while they still suggest sex is an immutable super important thing).