This might be a weird question, and I want to start by saying that I ask it in good faith. I teach cishet people about how to be nice to queer folk, and this is one of the things that's the hardest for me to teach well.
That subject is "being nonbinary".
I'm definitely binary. There has never been a waver in my belief, since I was old enough to express it, that I'm a girl.
So I don't get what it feels like to be nonbinary. Which means I can't kind of explain it to cishet people either.
So I'm asking my nonbinary friends here, do you feel like you have a gender, or is it really a rejection of gender as a construct? Or both? Neither? Eighteen other things entirely?
I'm trying to come in without known biases here, but I apologise if I've mistakenly said something hurtful.
Will someone be kind enough to educate your sister, so she can educate others?
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Tattie
In response to this post@oldladyplays ask ten non-binary people to define their relationship with gender, and you'll get fifteen different responses.
It really is a catch-all term, and I always warn people away from thinking about it as one, definable thing. It's a category made up of people who don't fit in categories.
@Tattie @oldladyplays i was playing a video game with a nonbinary character in it as a nonbinary character and the thing i really liked about it was the way the player character was nonbinary based on their dialogue options was different from the other nonbinary character was nonbinary and it was like, ok, there's no one way to do this
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