Soyouso wrote:I think it does nonbinary people more justice to refer to their identity as a gender identity instead of a new gender. The two binary sexes, male and female, do not stop nonbinary people from existing, it actually is the reason why it's possible. I know the word gender has become used the same as identity, but I think saying identity makes more sense, because it is based on the existence of the two biological sexes.
Cisgender is a gender identity, meaning their identity matches with their birth sex. MtF and FtM transgender is when the gender identity is the opposite of what you were born with. Agender is when your identity is neither. Any sort of genderfluid is when the identity switches between __________ states. I am bigender, meaning my identity is both male and female, though I'm technically genderfluid with how mine works. You can apply this to any gender identity that is an actual gender identity. Nonbinary identities are basically just a way for people describe gender dysphoria that doesn't fit into strictly male or strictly female, dysphoria being what causes people to not mentally be what they were born as.
I think we should start explaining it to people this way, I think it would makes more sense to people who've never heard of it.
I think I agree. This seems like a very good explanation. And while its true that some non-Western cultures have the concept of a "third gender" to explain transgender identity, this really does not justify the absurd assertion of some Westerners that their are infinite possible genders. People might not necessarily be exclusively masculine or exclusively feminine, but the trend of some people claiming to represent an entirely new gender seems to be a sign of narcissism and the excessive individualism of contemporary Western society. And that kind of behavior also feeds transphobia, making things worse for people who seriously identify as transgender. And in this context I think Soyouso's above explanation is helpful for clarification.