#bigenderish

[the-masquerade-council]

Queer-ish/Variant-ish part 5

Non binary-ish, and Maverique-ish

Non binary-ish - A term for for when someone's close to but not quite non binary. This can be for a variety of reasons, including being heavily aligned with a binary gender, having fluid gender and/or multiple gender and not viewing all of them as non binary, not identifying with typical understandings of what non binary means, having a "non traditional" relationship with non binaryness do to cultural reasons, questioning one's gender, any other experiences of near but not exact non binaryness and/or non binaryness with additional complexities to it.

Maverique-ish - A term for for when someone's close to but not quite maverique. This can be for a variety of reasons, including being demimaverique, having fluid gender and/or multiple gender that one views as inseparable from each other and maverique is a prominent one, questioning one's gender, any other experiences of near but not exact maverique and/or maverique with additional complexities to it.

Agender-ish, and Neutrois-ish, and Androgyne-ish

All have similar definitions to maverique-ish

Multigender-ish, and Bigender-ish, and Genderfluid-ish

Multigender-ish - A term for for when someone's close to but not quite multigender. This can be for a variety of reasons, including being almost entirely one gender but partly being others, having multiple partial genders, having fluid or flux gender that is experience as both multiple and one gender, questioning one's gender, any other experiences of near but not exactly that of being multigender and/or multigender with additional complexities to it.

Bigender-ish - A term for for when someone's close to but not quite bigender. This can be for a variety of reasons, including being almost entirely one gender but partly being another one, having multiple partial genders to add up to being close to but not quite two, having fluid or flux gender that is experience as both two and one gender, questioning one's gender, any other experiences of near but not exactly that of being bigender and/or bigender with additional complexities to it.

Genderfluid-ish - A term for for when someone's close to but not quite genderfluid. This can be for a variety of reasons, including one having the fluidity of one's gender(s) be very slow so it's often felt as static, having both fluid and static genders, one being unsure if their gender is fluid or flux, questioning one's gender, any other experiences of near but not exact non genderfluidity and/or non genderfluidity with additional complexities to it.

[campgender]

hiii i’m Mac! as mentioned in my bio please be 18+ to follow but if you’re just here to go through the quotes i post that’s all good. a bit more about me:

polyamorous bigenderish bi gay + high femme faggot + #1 dyke hag 💘 the man lesbians are centering 💘 quakerish ritualist, sex&drug user, riverdale connoisseur, sophie devereaux acolyte

homebound cripple queering self-isolation + tongue-in-cheek anti-recovery advocate 💘 disability blog @crippleprophet

blessed are the plural & the transabled & the nonhuman & the borderline & the xenogendered & the gleefully contradictory. blessed are the beloved who i didn’t describe, i couldn’t describe, will learn to describe and respect and love. amen.

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[yrbutchgf]

I thought I was a gay trans man for many years, but after a prolonged identity crisis, I've come to the conclusion that I'm bisexual and bigender (both a man and a woman.) I've always felt an affinity for the word butch and related to (as well as was attracted to) butch women. But in my day-to-day life I'm stealth as a cis man. I want to embrace my butchness but I feel like there's nothing radical or nonconforming about my masculinity since everyone sees me as a man. Especially since I'm on the road to getting phalloplasty, I feel like this realization has been sort of pointless. I'm not like those strong butch women who are visibly gnc and unashamed, though I envy them.

honestly, i don't see anything unchallenging about any person who decides to craft a form of gender different from what they were taught was right. in even mentioning that embracing your butchness would be a decision, you are proving that there is something in that action that changes the way you think about your masculinity, and therefore how you perform it and how it relates to others. and personally, i find even the sheer use of the word butch (as a positive thing, an honorific, especially) to be radical in and of itself for the way it can open up a room.

you may come to butchness from a different angle than many butch women do, but then many butch women come at it from different angles than each other. plus, butches from all throughout history have physically transitioned for all kinds of reasons. look at leslie feinberg. to me, and to many people, i don't think it matters what people see you as, 'cause people are always going to put something on you no matter what you do. when i was younger for example, i identified as a butch lesbian, and i was just like. a teenage girl wearing masculine clothing, and in a lot of situations people just assumed i was a guy. (one time it even happened while i was literally wearing a jacket that had a double venus emblazoned on the chest.) but what they put on and expected of me didn't change the fact of what i was, how i identified, or what it meant for me to be navigating life that way.

idk, i understand where your concerns come from, but i really think this sort of self-analyzing insecurity regarding whether you're doing enough by being butch is like... one of the most prototypically butch things i've ever heard, and also one of the things i feel like all of us have to learn to shed one of these days. it's better for the soul

[whypolar]

is tommy/simone genderfluid? why's their feminine name in quotes?

He’s bigenderish but leans male/masculine. Simone is his birth name. It’s in quotes because he still uses it and likes it well enough, but it’s not his primary/”real” name, if that makes sense. I suppose it’s similar to treating your birth name as like... a drag persona or something.

The reason I specify he doesn’t mind is because:1) It’s one of the more obvious indicators of him being Not Binary that occurs in the story itself2) I wouldn’t want to include a character’s disliked “deadname” in my writing if I could avoid it. Makes me feel a little weird. People are constantly asking trans people about our “real” names so it’s a little spitefully satisfying to say “no, actually, that’s not this character’s real name and you don’t get to know it”

[campgender]

hiii i’m mac & i have a vast multitude of hand problems so if i followed you & don’t meet your dni or something, congratulations, you are one of the lucky handful of people i accidentally follow & have to then go unfollow on any given day! sorry about that & have a good one! xoxo

for the rest of y’all, a brief & incomplete introduction:

bigenderish (bi)gay + high femme faggot + #1 dyke hag. the man lesbians are centering. homebound cripple + ritual inventor + sex&drug user. tongue-in-cheek anti-recovery advocate.

professional samgirl + riverdale connoisseur + chronic character disabler. occasional poet.

blessed are the plural & the transabled & the nonhuman & the borderline & the xenogendered & the gleefully contradictory. blessed are the beloved who i didn’t describe, i couldn’t describe, will learn to describe and respect and love. amen.