Hi. I've been curious to ask this to LGBTQ people for a long time as you're being demonized pretty quickly for such an opinion: how do you justify that there are more than two genders or that there are genders between male and female? I know that there are people who are born with specific features of both genders; yet this is obviously an anomaly, thus it makes no sense to create a new one for such a small subgroup - you wouldn't say that a disabled person who has different body features than most of humanity is a new species, right?

I'm not intending to insult anyone, I'm just genuinely curious and want to hear others' views

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becausethenight

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Original post by Anonymous

Hi. I've been curious to ask this to LGBTQ people for a long time as you're being demonized pretty quickly for such an opinion: how do you justify that there are more than two genders or that there are genders between male and female? I know that there are people who are born with specific features of both genders; yet this is obviously an anomaly, thus it makes no sense to create a new one for such a small subgroup - you wouldn't say that a disabled person who has different body features than most of humanity is a new species, right?

I'm not intending to insult anyone, I'm just genuinely curious and want to hear others' views

Because I know how I feel, and I feel that I’m non-binary. Gender isn’t about your biological sex or physical appearance, it’s about you feeling it, and defining yourself, as far as I’m concerned. How else do you explain the amazing and sustained variation over time of how people relate to gender and the diversity of gender identities? There’s a really lovely article with some gender diverse folx talking about what their gender means to them here https://www.glaad.org/amp/9-young-people-explain-what-being-non-binary-means-them which I would really recommend having a look at.

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Original post by becausethenight

Because I know how I feel, and I feel that I’m non-binary. Gender isn’t about your biological sex or physical appearance, it’s about you feeling it, and defining yourself, as far as I’m concerned. How else do you explain the amazing and sustained variation over time of how people relate to gender and the diversity of gender identities? There’s a really lovely article with some gender diverse folx talking about what their gender means to them here https://www.glaad.org/amp/9-young-people-explain-what-being-non-binary-means-them which I would really recommend having a look at.

Isn't this personality? Of course a boy can be drawn towards female behavioural characteristics and the other way around, but then I would argue that this is his personality. I'm really having difficulties grasping what gender means (in my language, there is one word being used for both gender and sex).

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newmoononmonday

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Original post by kelsiepalfrey

yes hello fellow gay :smile:

Exactly the same here 👋🏼 What’s your snapchat? Let’s be matesss!

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mgi

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Original post by Anonymous

I'm heterosexual, so clearly I'm the enemy.

No, you are a person like everyone else.

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becausethenight

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Original post by Anonymous

Isn't this personality? Of course a boy can be drawn towards female behavioural characteristics and the other way around, but then I would argue that this is his personality. I'm really having difficulties grasping what gender means (in my language, there is one word being used for both gender and sex).

It's not personality - you can have masculine women and non-binary people, and feminine men and non-binary people. The difference is how that person wants to be defined and addressed. You can have XX chromosomes and female primary and secondary sexual characteristics, short hair and present in a butch way, and consider yourself a woman, use she/her pronouns etc. Equally that person could be non-binary and use other pronouns, or a man and use he/him pronouns, or whatever. As I say, it's a bit like other things that we're sure of but can't describe, like knowing if you're in love or not, or if G-d exists or not. It's not saying that masculine cis women and feminine cis men are actually a different gender because gender stereotypes - it's acknowledging how non-binary and gender-non-conforming people feel very strongly that they have a gender that is neither being exclusively a woman nor being exclusively a man, which is independent of someone's personality or whether they have stereotypically 'masculine' or 'feminine' interests, if that makes sense :smile:

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josie71202

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hi I'm bi nice to meet you

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