Nonbinary Guide

[Guest Conrí]

The NonBinary Guide (by Conri)

Identity: an inner sense of self

Expression: the way someone dresses, acts, grooms, etc.

Gender Binary: the erroneous belief that everyone must be either male or female with no area in between or outside of it.

Androgyne: someone who identifies as both male and female, could also refer to someone who identifies as neither, but nuetrois and agender are preferred for neither because the Greek roots for androgyne translate the word to "male-female". (a gender identity)

Androgynous: a blend of male and female traits in appearance, behavior, personality, and/or dress. (a gender expression)

Agender: an identity of being genderless.

Neutrois: someone who identifies as genderless, and wishes to achieve a neutral or androgynous appearance and/or body, which can include hormones or surgery.

Genderqueer: someone who's identity does not fall into the gender binary.

Bi-gender: someone who is male and female, typically switching between the two in identity and/or expression.

Pan-gender: (?)

Gender ambiguous: (see genderqueer)

[Guest Naomi Stardust]

no one responded to this?

guess i will

this is a really good idea!

glad you thought of it

gender can also be a fluid state, not static (pan-gender, all of the above at one time or another)

[Guest Bombi]

Androgyne: someone who identifies as both male and female, could also refer to someone who identifies as neither, but nuetrois and agender are preferred for neither because the Greek roots for androgyne translate the word to "male-female". (a gender identity)

Androgynous: a blend of male and female traits in appearance, behavior, personality, and/or dress. (a gender expression)

Agender: an identity of being genderless.

Neutrois: someone who identifies as genderless, and wishes to achieve a neutral or androgynous appearance and/or body, which can include hormones or surgery.

Wow! I just coming to terms with accepting the lable androgynous then I find out what Neutrois really means. Here I go again.

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Good topic - I don't know why I am compelled to reply. I get confused with definitions so I just stay with what I know - everyone is different.

I couldn't even put a label on what I felt for 61 years. And the problem? Trying to fit into something someone else defined for me (cross dresser?). I STILL feel that I am just a person - but there is a terrible difference from what I am, what I feel to be, and what I look like (transsexual?). I don't know how to present anymore (am I a male? am I a female?) and feel the situation is out of my control anyway. I am taking an HRT regimine and transitioning in appearance (male) (effeminate male) (androgynous) (masculine female) (female) and somewhat in mood, emotion and personality (less aggression, a sense of interconnectedness) and my senses are changing (smell, taste, but especially feel). Chemically I am female now.

And I have a woman's soul I think. I have old memeories and many dreams of past experiences as a woman (reincarnation?). And I have a female mindset I am told. I test high on female reponses - 'probable transsexual' in that one test - 360 points - doesn't mean anything people say. I dress to express my femaleness and have since age eight, but not necessarily to be feminine as I am told cross dressers do.

And I looked feminine to moderate degree as a man prior to HRT, no masculine features I have been told (appearing androgyne?). I look very feminine now, probably will not need FFS. I want to pass as a woman and disappear, and probably can do that.

So I don't really identify with a true androgyne personna and those associated terms, although I can understand them somewhat. I never wanted to be anything but fully female, a woman, so anything else is not for me, except as a phase to pass through. I always felt it was an educational opportunity here at Laura's to be associated with all the classes of gender dysphoria.

Just some thoughts

Lizzy

[Guest Little Sara]

I think this is a pretty on-target list of terms from my own experience. Good work there.