#androgyne

[sydsixxftm]

Been on testosterone for 3.5 years. Feeling very Androgenized

[insufferable-prettyboy]

I look like the tomboy love interest in a piece of 90s vampire media.

[supernovasolace]

I'm not okay. Took a mental health day to do my part and make some art about it. No matter the opposition, we won't be erased. A world without trans people has never existed, and it never will! 🏳️‍⚧️

May this piece be a small light in the darkness for those in need of comfort and hope. Feel free to share/re-post elsewhere if this resonates with you. Just please make sure you include the alt text!

[cobwebbed-crow]

Nonbinary people don't owe you androgyny, that much is true. But please don't let anyone convince you that androgyny is an illegitimate or impossible transition goal.

[starmonsterrr]

[ * QUEER FLAGS COLORPICKED FROM INK SANS COLOR PALETTE. LET'S GO ]

Gay | Lesbian | Bi

Pan | Omni | Poly

Trans | Non-binary | Genderqueer

French | Intersex | Genderfluid

Agender | Androgyne | Xenogender

Aromantic | Asexual | Aroace

[nonbinarynow]

It's okay to want to be androgynous as a non-binary person

It's okay to like androgyny as a non-binary person

It's okay to owe yourself androgyny as a non-binary person

It's okay to transition to androgyny as a non-binary person

It's okay to be transandrogynous

It's okay to love mixing masculinity and femininity into androgyny as a non-binary person

It's okay for your enbiness to be androgynous

It's okay to love being androgynous as a non-binary person

It's okay to want to have a mixed hormonal profile as a non-binary person

It's okay to want salmactive bottom surgery procedures a non-binary person

It's okay to not be white, or assigned a certain gender at birth and want to be androgynous as a non-binary person

If anything it's beautiful. It's wonderful. It's awesome.

You are not doing the community a disservice. You are making waves, when the world tells you to look more binary, you are choosing to subvert that because that's what is right for you. In the slew of "you don't HAVE to be androgynous" (look different, stand out, be visibly nonbinary in society), you are not dragging the community down by wanting to be different to the status quo. You deserve representation, you deserve to feel safe, you deserve to feel love, both self love and any other love you desire in life. Your androgyny, your striving for it, your androgynous desire is important and should not be ignored. It should be celebrated as part of your enbiness, as part of you 💛🤍💜🖤

[womanman]

"I've been thinking recently about the first ever trans space I was ever actually a part of, Bigender.net. My experience was primarily with these forums in ~2009, but I came back to peek in later years, and am trying to regain access now. There's a lot of bigender cultural things there that would probably never be known about or archived somewhere easily accessible unless someone talked about what they saw there, and I wanted to share some things.

+ A Lot of people used two or more names that they switch up, use in different contexts, and that often align with specific genders. Names are essentially changed like pronouns are for many people.

+ Most bigender people seemed to experience some kind of fluidity or flux of gender, and it was rarer for people to feel like 100% both at all times. This seems to be more often where people label themselves androgynes.

+ The language of "en femme" and "en homme" was used to describe both how one was presenting (similar to the modern boymoding/girlmoding) and to how one felt their gender on a specific day, which is what makes it different from girlmode/boymode. It wasn't just about presentation regardless of gender, but presentation as related to gender.

+ Plurality became so common over the years as a framework of bigender expression that a whole subforum for plurality emerged on these forums. Lots of plural bigender folks would experience having a "girl side" and a "boy side" in a dual system.

+ There were just as many bigender folks who experienced a neutral/other/middle gender experience besides just being male/female. It really wasn't limited to 2 genders, even if at the time it was very male/female bigender focused."

Aster, Bigender Culture

[neurovarious]

so yknow the "AAA battery" joke with aspec identities? well there's a lot of versions of that whether its Aro/Ace/Agender or Aro/Ace/Autistic, but... theres so many other A's too: Abro, Aplatonic (and other Aspec orientations), Androgyne, Abinary, Atrinary, Alterhuman, ADHD and more- you get it.

so, i wonder... how many As can one battery have???

[dhddmods]

This. This so much. Not to derail, but this also applies to some altersex and intersex people.

People who don't fall into your typical gender or sex binary do have options. Aside from HRT, there's plenty you can choose medically or with body modifications!

Tracheal shaves can minimize an Adam's apple. Feminizing laryngoplasties can make your voice higher.

In terms of your chest, you can have a a breast lift/mastopexy, breast augmentation, breast reduction, mastectomy, areola reduction, nipple reduction, nipple excision, or nipple [re]construction.

In terms of your reproductive organs, you can have a vastectomy, tubal ligation, gonadectomy (oophorectomy or orchiectomy), hysterectomy, trachelectomy, or prostatectomy.

In terms of your genitals, you can choose a penis split (meatotomy, subincision, or genital bisection), urethroplasty, perineal urethrostomy, circumcision or dorsal slit/ventril slit, hoodectomy, labiaplasty, labia stretching, vulvectomy, (voluntary) infibulation, vaginectomy, vulvoplasty or vaginoplasty, phallus-preserving vulvoplasty/vaginoplasty, clitoroidectomy, clitoroplasty, metoidioplasty (with or without a scrotoplasty or urethral lengthening), phalloplasty (with or without a glansplasty or urethral lengthening), scrotoplasty, penectomy, genital nullification, or genital beading.

And there are other potential procedures, such as hymen [re]construction (if you have a damaged or stretched hymen), a hymenotomy (if you have a hymenal intersex variation), a hysteroplasty (if you have a bicornuate uterus, septate uterus, or uterus didelphys), and cervical [re]construction if you have a damaged cervix or a cervical intersex variation.

If anyone wants to see our list of sex altering procedures, you can check it out here.

I know that HRT gives you secondary sex characteristics in one direction or another, but we HAVE to stop telling nonbinary people that they “can’t pick and choose.” Of course, you can’t tell your testosterone that you’d rather not grow chest hair, but there are things you can do!

You could go on T so your voice drops and start shaving so you don’t grow a beard. You could start HRT and then stop once you get the permanent changes you like. You can pursue sterilization instead of bottom surgery. You can get top surgery without being on T. You can go on E and work out a bunch to bulk out your muscles. You can pursue laser hair removal or electrolysis to remove unwanted hair, with or without HRT. You could even just start hormones to see if you like it and then stop if it isn’t to your taste.

Obviously, you can’t order secondary sex characteristics a la carte, but we have to stop being so awful to nonbinary people. We should discuss the options we have, not shut down the conversation with “that’s what you get.”

[this-is-exorsexism]

This is idea that wanting to be androgynous and non-binary is bad or oppressive or "trinary" in a way. It really hurts as an androgyne because it makes it impossible to ask for tips to present androgynously because your whole replies are filled with "you don't have to!!" which is basically just telling me to go back into a binary box and be ignored forever.

You never see discussion around androgyny, achieving it (socially or medically), dysphoria surrounding it, or wanting it. The only discussion is about how non-binary people shouldn't want it because we "don't have to!!"

And this idea that non-binary people are oppressed specifically for not presenting androgynously. We are oppressed for being non-binary. No matter how we present, we are seen as being completely invalid because of being non-binary!!! Androgyny is a transient thing.

this is exorsexism.

[kryptosworld]

Growing out my winter coat

[the-transgenda-agenda]

Today's updates to the transgender dictionary

added link to nonbinary page in androgyne definition

updated nonbinary page (links, intro, etc updated im probably going to have to fix it tomorrow though cause its not great and i went back to work on it when its like midnight and i need to go to bed now lmao)

added Androgynous definition

added links to transandrophobia page

added link to mastectomy page

added queer to q page

[septiccoffeefreak]

"Are you a man or a woman?"

Am I flesh or bone? Do I peel the meat from my body or carve my skeleton out of myself? Which halves of myself do I keep, after the operation is done?

You come to me asking me this, asking me if I'm one or the other. Am I a man or a woman.

Fuck off.

[justdavina]

So HOT!! I just love this wonderful cross-dresser!

[nonbinarynow]

"It is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized. Brilliant and effective, powerful and masterly, as it may appear for a day or two, it must wither at nightfall; it cannot grow in the minds of others. Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the writer is communicating his experience with perfect fullness."

- Virginia Woolf, A Room of Ones Own, 1929

I adore this quotation, not just as a womanist feminist, not just as a writer who seeks to write about experiences other than my own, but as a transandrogynous person, who understands the beautiful, natural creativity and empathy that mental androgyny lends me access to. The word is bipartite, dichotomised into a binary, where one must be better than the other. It is not in our nature to just hold two states, two things as equal. There will always be a victor and a failure. A better and a worse. But to choose to marry those two things into one, to force both to coexist in one life, to consciously (because as humans, it's in our nature, but consciously choosing this path is different) combine aspects of both into your everyday reshapes the mental experience into an androgynous one, with the ability to debinarise and marry every single little binarised thing; from the manner of blinking to the theory produced on the human condition and the science of life and creation.

In a world of binary dichotomies, to exist in a mental state that incooperates all aspects of the binary, to marry all of its silly divisions, to live as proof you dont have to lock your mind into "one or the other" brings forward the capability to expand ones own thinking long beyond what was previously thought, to access the "whole mind." To live as an androgynous, or at least as a being unaffiliated with the gender binary, shows an incredible ability to break away from the notion you must perceive, experience and live in the world only one way; it is the realisation that you are locking up half of your human experience. It is the realisation that you are falling into a pit of "pure simplicity." The death of new thought, the death of unity and the death of the complexities of human expression is surely inbound if not for beings of androgyny redefining the human experience out of these unmarriable dichotomies; man-womanliness and woman-manliness allows access to new perspectives on old concepts, and the birth of new ones. Birth that cannot happen in a mind confined to the rigidness that is binary thought. This is evidenced in real life, through people who live outside the binary, present outside the binary, transitionwithin the binary offering new perspectives to those who don't, and to all others who resist the binary.

This is the birth of new, beautiful, creative and expansive minds and communities. The breaking down of the rigid colonial capitalist thought that permeates all of society. Seeking empathy across false borders, the unity of all people, and the understanding between the man and the woman. Helping people realise that they are capable of androgynous thought despite being binary, by being someone who is a unification or a disassociation with it. Androgyny is universally understood in binary individuals, it helps them understand the opposite from their perspective. Helping them see that they are more similar than they think, but it will take active mental androgyny to help realise this fact. Helping the creativity, the empathy, the understanding "grow in the minds of others." Mental androgyny is radical in the sense that is the realisation of shared humanity, with baseless binarisation being a detriment to society. Below is my personal favourite quote on androgyny, ever.

"The androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment; that it is naturally creative, incandescent, and undivided."

- Virginia Woolf, A Room Of Ones Own, 1929

[comradebestie]

i hand stitched top surgery scars onto the build-a-bear i’ve had since i was 7

i remember i got him on my birthday

i used pink embroidery floss i got so long ago that i can’t remember who gave it to me, but i know it was for making friendship bracelets

the needlework is a bit wonky

the seams are a bit lumpy

it was dark in my childhood room while i worked. everyone else is asleep. i should be too.

but i sat on the floor and stitched top surgery scars onto my bear so that one day, we’ll match