![]() ![]() ![]() When I'm introducing myself in trans spaces, I will often say, 'Hi, my name is AJ! I use they/them pronouns, and identify as an AFAB transmasculine nonbinary person.' I don't always disclose that I am AFAB or transmasculine, as those are supplementary pieces to my core nonbinary identity, but adding them in helps clarify to those around me (and sometimes myself, on dysphoric days) where I fall in terms of all the infinite possible identities. Also, note that sexually fluid people can be attracted to the same amount of people (or more or less) as gay or straight people. Transmasculine, to me, means I am transgender with a masculine of center presentation. I don't identify with any gender, intrinsically, but know that my body and mind feel comfortable in clothing that is most commonly associated with men/males/masculinity, as they are currently defined and understood by societies dominant binary narrative. Transmasculine, to me, is a secondary layer of my identity (the base layer being my nonbinary identity). 'Some folks have an identity that fluctuates over time,' Christy L. Individuals that identify as gender-fluid recognize that their expression and their gender identity alters between female and male. When I learned of the word transmasculine, it was like a cool drink of water on a hot day, incredibly refreshing and satisfying. Essentially, non-binarysometimes shortened to NB or enbyis a type of gender identity. Genderfluid is a part of the non-binary identity. I would often see words like 'transman' or 'ftm' or other transgender identities, but these all seemed deeply rooted in the gender binary. That, despite your body, you really are the opposite gender to what you appear You might be one of the estimated 1.3M people in the world who experiences this. "As an AFAB (assigned female at birth) person who identifies as nonbinary and is medically transitioning via hormones and (eventual) surgery, I had a hard time developing my language around what all that means to me in terms of my transition and outward expression. What I appreciate most is that I don’t enjoy terms like 'nonconforming' and 'non-binary,' because I’m not a 'non' thing, my gender isn’t a lack of conformity or a lack of binary-ness, it is its own active, multi-faceted, nuanced and – well, queer – thing." - Perri Hawley, 29, New York, NY I, personally, also don’t enjoy how terms like 'gender-fluid' and 'androgynous' seem to conflate 'gender identity' and 'gender expression' – as if wearing 'feminine' clothes means feeling or being feminine, for instance, which it doesn’t in my experience. ![]() I don’t experience a 'fluidity' in my gender identity, so much as a constant state of queerness (it’s not so much that I’m multiple genders or back and forth between genders as it is that none of them quite fit and it all feels a little queer). Just as you could call 'cisgender,' 'gender straight,' you can call any number of gender identities 'genderqueer.' I identify as genderqueer but not as gender fluid – for instance. An increasing number of people are identifying outside the gender binary. "Genderqueer is a term that's used by folks who might otherwise identify as nonconforming, non-binary, agender, demigender, gender-fluid, bigender, or any number of other terms. ![]()
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