I'm currently watching back a livestream by @JimSterling – which I thoroughly recommend by the way: both streamer and chat are utterly awesome – and the topic in the chat is HRT and non-binary people. It's made me reflective, hence this thread.

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I'm a binary trans woman, and that's reflected in what I think and what I say. When I write about trans issues, you can see that the perspective is binary, and that's mostly because that's what I know.

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While there are many struggles common to all trans people, there are many that are peculiar to non-binary people. Since I am not non-binary, I don't share those latter struggles, and am not the person to be talking about them anyway.

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Another thing is that when you engage with the shit of transphobia, you get dragged into that shit, and you might end up, as I have, setting into subtly transphobic ideas and attitudes in an effort to attack the more blatant ones.

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None of that means that non-binary issues shouldn't be talked about, or that indulging in accidental transphobia is okay, and this thread is a part of my correcting my failings in both areas.

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One point I like to make, which I should avoid making, is that all people seeking HRT are certain that they want it. In most cases of binary trans people, I imagine this is true.

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