#gender is fun

[mutopians]

this is NOT a definitive guide to gender terms at ALL but. i had fun making this little bar thingy the other day when trying to explain a headcanon for a character's gender. the white space is the area beyond/outside the gender binary.

obviously there's a LOT of nuance and everyone has their own feelings on their genders, but this is how my brain has like. processed the vibes of different identities to figure out my own gender identity.

[vile-wizard]

Me transforming into a straight man after years of being in a sapphic relationship (my new gf is straight):

[thatonesapphicfilipino]

omg there’s this person from my php and omg

i need their gender

like the gender envy is real

like please

give gender

like their name is so gender for them like hello need

like i need ur gender

[snufkinsnogger]

When your gender identity goes through seasons or something and you started shipping with a character that's widely perceived as gay man while you're identifying as a NB masc presenting AFAB person and now you're a somewhat fem/androgynous presenting NB AFAB person and are afraid to reflect that in your selfshipping art because your FO is widely perceived as a gay man and you feel like your ship was only tolerated as much as it was because even though your SI has female reproductive organs they presented masc but now it's gonna be a problem if the Beloved Homo Hobo is being shipped with a fem presenting NB AFAB SI.

[gandalf-the-bean]

my gender is “i don’t feel like a guy and i like that but if i get called something other than a guy i will be sad”

[lesbian-thespian-paladin]

My hair gets those last few millimeters too long and suddenly it's just me, my oversized black hoodie, and my backwards baseball cap against the world

[scribblingwhalegirl]

gay gay homosexual gay

Some say the cutest girls have electricity in their eyes.

They twinkle like stars, lighting one path ahead,

and the sparks fly when you come close.

Others say the hottest ones have fire and ice in their eyes,

with depths below, mysteries to unravel,

wielding polished blades which form their shape.

But what of the rest?

The girl with the power of water in her eyes

is a haven, oasis among dry and barren hearts,

and within her reflections, souls find peace.

Then there’s the girl with earth in her eyes.

You can trust her to take care of anything

as she tirelessly tends to what matters most.

Far away flies the girl with wind in her eyes,

roaming free through the land for a suitable ear

which she’ll bless with the whispers of a distant city of butterflies.

Legend tells of a girl with a galaxy in her eyes;

a creator, a goddess, effortlessly spinning world on world of beauty.

She observes, reforms, turns her home into colours of a six-dimensional rainbow.

And me?

I love them all like sisters,

and there are those who would say I contain multitudes.

[coinandcandle]

Gender Thoughts with Coin

Not entirely witch but I had a dream the other day where I told myself in the dream exactly how I view my gender and ever since then a lot has been very clear.

First, I've always felt "masculine", and he/him pronouns have always been the most comfortable for me, but gender nonspecific terms outside of pronouns have never mattered to me. I just knew I didn't love being called feminine terms. Everything else was fine. But since I knew I wanted to transition physically so that I'd have a beard and such, I was like "guess I'm a trans man". I wasn't forced into that thinking (looking at you, TERFs) I just didn't care enough to seek a label that fit better.

Now, though, after years of it being on the back burner of my mind and after that all-too-realistic dream, I think I've come to terms with it. Gender is weird and I don't like to label mine, that's all.

I still use he/him and such but I've since stopped thinking of how much of a "man" I am because I've never truly subscribed to what a man is. I've always felt ambiguous and androgynous.

I told my bf that while the term "nonbinary" doesn't feel right I think (if I had to put a label on it) I would call myself non-boy-nary.

Yes, I did make this post to come out to you all but also to assault you with my amazing pun.

You're welcome.

[genuflecting]

I had my first voice crack while exasperatedly half jokingly yelling about family in therapy today, what a moment

[justasillylittleguy]

I want people to use it/it's pronouns for me like you would a feral animal (species unknown)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

historical drama/sitcom where two gay best friends (woman and man) get lavender married--and proceed to spend the Fancy European Honeymoon their parents paid for acting as each other's wingman

[thatonesapphicfilipino]

GENDER EUPHORIA STORY TIMEEE

btw this was at the same event as this but soo important to be included

OMG SO THERE WAS THIS RUN THING LIKE A BIT FROM MY HOUSE THAT MY DANCE STUDIO WAS SPONSORING AND WE WERE IN THUS ROOM WITH THE OTHER SPONSORS AND ONE WAS GIVING AWAY LIKE PLAY DOIGH KITS AND ME AND MY SISTER GOT PLAY DOUGH KITS CAUSE OFC AND OMFG

SO WE WERE GONNA BE THERE FOR LIKE A WHOLE HOUR OR MORE SO I WENT TO PUT THW PLAY DOUGH IN THE CAR AND CUZ YK ITS A RUN FOR A SCHOOL THERE WERE OTHER YOUNGER KIDS THERE AND ONE KID KWJSJFKDI

THIS KID SAW ME AND WAS LIKE “wait why did.. she get two play doughs” LIKE THIS KID HAD TO PAUSE TO DETERMINE MY GENDER OMGGG IM WINNING LIKE IM WEARING GREEN CARGO PANTS DOCS A T SHIRT SND A CROPPED SWEATER YK VERY GENDER BUT LIKE EASILY ANDROGYNOUS LIKE OMGG THIS KID HAD TI PAUSE TO DETERMINE MY GENDER IM SO HAPPY IM REACHING PEAK ANDROGYNY IM WINNING GENDER I AM SO HAPPY

[roughentumble]

sometimes i wish i was agender and more explicitly on the autism spectrum because then my whole situation could be described as asexual aromantic agender autistic, or AAAA, and we all love a good scream dont we

[minecraft]

Did y'all know that Elon Musk's Twitter recently added LGBTQ terms (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Transgender, Queer) to it's "offensive words" list - meaning that links to tweets with words containing them aren't previewed in twitter DMs and are generally de-boosted (shown to less people) by the website? Did you also know there exists a character called the zero-width non joiner that you can copy and paste in-between letters of any keyword so that the keyword visually looks the same but isn't automatically seen by the algorithm as containing a keyword?

[nando161mando]

"First rule of gender is to have fun :3" (EN: English)

[notherpuppet]

Evil Woman 🎶