/gsm/ - Gender & Sexual Minorities

>assignment
female
>how you see yourself
a female person with GID…doesnt feel right to say I am "male inside"
>presentation
masculine
>pronouns you use
female for now, but maybe one day I will do FTM transition and use male ones
>do you know other non BINARY people?
nope. feels bad man

>>23
Hm. I find all of these points difficult to respond to.

>assignment
I have the physical anatomy of a man.
>how you see yourself
Genderless.
>presentation
I have no idea. I assume people label me "male" though, and I can't blame them from doing so, even if they may associate more with the term than just my anatomy.
>pronouns you use
I consider the terms to be descriptive, so I use male pronouns for male bodies, and female pronouns for female bodies, regardless of respective "identification". I generally refrain from using words like "masculine" or "feminine" because they either lack a clearly defined use or are redundant because synonymous with "male" and "female".
>do you know other non BINARY people?
Depends. I think most people I know would consider gender to be purely physical, and realise the many facets of personality. Though that might be a definition that's a bit too loose.

That said, not sure I'd even classify as "non-binary" since I think the male-female dichotomy makes descriptive sense. It only really gets complicated if we decide to associate our personality with our genders, which is something I, as an asexual, might simply be unable to understand.

>assignment
male
>how you see yourself
female
>presentation
masculine most of the time sadly, but feminine when i'm alone or with people i'm out to
>pronouns you use
since i'm yet to start properly transitioning, i'm okay with people using he/him/his for now as it would cause confusion if i used feminine pronouns, but eventually it'll be she/her/hers
>do you other non BINARY people
no, i mean, i'm not even non binary myself, but i do know two trans guys; i don't talk to them that much though. i knew a person who identified as non binary, but i haven't spoken to said person in a good while so i'm not sure if they still identify as such

Does anyone know of any scientific studies on non-binary people? I was in an argument on halfchan about the existence of non-binary people, someone else asked for scientific proof they existed, and then I got banned for posting a link to a study on springer (which is apparently a banned URL?)

>>27
How would you scientifically prove a non-binary attitude towards gender? Testosterone/Oestrogen balance? I always thought it was a stance towards social gender-roles and the apparent dichotomy of physical bodies. If that is not the case, please enlighten me as you attemted to enlighten the halfguys.

>>28
Yeah that's true. I have a feeling that this person was looking for something very concrete (like the theory that binary trans people have brain structures more like those of the gender they identify as) but there isn't much of that even regarding binary trans people, who have been studied by scientists far longer than nb people. But yeah really all I could find was studies on what percent of people identify as nb, which isn't surprising since it's not really the sort of thing that can be proven in concrete terms.