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~semi-~ Serious question, Idon’t get it. Most of us get why the hegemonic gender system is stupid, why subscribe to the binary role you were assigned? Also, why do straight people exist? Maybe it’s just me but I like to look and feel like my own perception of what is attractive.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Because being the agender I generally feel inside is effort I'd rather spend elsewhere I guess. Gender is performative. I'd rather not perform at all, but there's no such thing as not performing, an unperformance. So I passively perform the identity put upon me, feeling powerless to step outside of my experience nor how society experiences me.

Heteronormativity doesn't make sense to me. To my subrational mind, everyone possesses an ungendered essence, which is filtered through and expressed by social and physical constructs like gender and whatnot. Merely signs or signifiers for the essence that is the person with whom a connection might be made.

Rationally I don't think these conceptions are particularly true, but they kind of describe how I subconsciously understand the world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Because Joe Biden told me to be 😔

spoilerI guess I just never felt the need to question my gender identity because I’m lucky enough to have always been comfortable in the gender I was assigned, which is partially attributable to the fact that I was raised in an environment where my gender didn’t put any real expectations on me in terms of how I should act or what life path I should pursue

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

eh, because i dont know if im actually demi or if my brain craves attention

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ping me when a few people have answered

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'm trans myself but I think some people just end up being cis. And that's OK. We shouldn't judge them for it...all that much...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No urge to transition to anything other than my assigned gender. I might've experimented with skirts since they seem comfier but won't for fear of transphobia.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm cis for the same reason someone would be binary trans, except I think the gender I was assigned happens to be correct.

EDIT: oh it's a bit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not fully a bit, I am interested in how people would actually answer it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Fair enough, my answer is sincere for that it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I am simply, and always have been, a cissy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You're expected to "explain" yourself somehow and I learned the words and phrases about heteronormativity and cisgender(ness?) before anything else. I do wonder what labels I would have taken if non-binary were a term I was taught alongside (and with the same "matter of fact"ness as) masculine/feminine, boy/girl, male/female though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Because sex is hot and I like it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I already have like eleven boy clothes. I can hardly muster the necessary space for clean and used storage, washing, and drying, the logistical expertise, the time of day, week, or year, nor the necessary enthusiasm to acquire a girl clothe on top of that

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