#InternationalNonbinaryDay challenge! skip the “identifies as” when you refer to us if you also skip it when you talk about cis people’s genders https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😊" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit lächelnden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit lächelnden Augen">

(i welcome you to try referring to your cis friends as people who “identify as” their genders & see how that goes)

this is always about bodies & essentialism. my body is MINE to classify or un-classify. everything about sex & gender is constructed - there isn’t more “truth” to my socio-cultural assignment, or more “science” behind it

i have no interest in “denying” my body’s traits (“biology”) - in fact my relationship to them is almost entirely positive (and yes, i’m still trans). i just refuse to categorize them the same way as the oppressive western cis binary. i don’t categorize anyone’s bodies like that

100% of what i would describe as my dysphoria around being trans is a response to being non-consensually categorized & told how to relate to & behave in my own body. it’s not internal for me, it’s external, which is why i spend as much time with other trans folks as i can

so do me a favor & really think about whether you see trans (including non-binary) people as binary-gendered bodies with “different ideas” about our identities, or whether you are actually recognizing us as humans who ARE who we say we are, as equally as any cis person