Gender

[cjsmith]

Neither box, please.

Gender: n: the set of assumptions not actually determined by, but often associated with, the sex of the physical body.

To be *trans*gender, I'd have to be "gender" at all. No. I reject ALL the assumptions.

Comments

[firecat]

"trans" can also mean "beyond" rather than "across".

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I most often percieve it to mean "The box I was assigned to doesn't fit, and I fit the other one much better." But maybe I'm jumping to conclusions there.

I like the "beyond" idea, in the sense of "outside of". If traditional-male-assumptions is THIS archipelago and traditional-female-assumptions is THAT archipelago, I live on the mainland. Or something.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

What about metagender? ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Paragender? Resident alien?? :-)

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

You know, I'd enjoy Egypt a lot better if I didn't have a visible gender, if no one did. Or, let's be honest, if I were male. :-P

[rampling.livejournal.com]

I too reject the *trans* part of transgender for me. That's why I prefer to use the term genderqueer to describe myself. It posits a gender not constrained by the traditional binary sex and gender assumptions.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

No SHIT.

As I sometimes say, I'm not a woman, I'm a human being! Even the US hasn't really figured that out yet, and we're farther along than many.

If I could pick whether to be out about, oh, say, EVERY SINGLE DETAIL of my sex life or about being female, you darn betcha I'd be writing True Confessions letters for the bulletin board at work.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and in your case that works particularly well because it links in the "queer" bit. I'm not sure even "genderqueer" works for me. I'm just... not.

I definitely find it hard to communicate with those who are. Of any gender. I don't get it. (Except for the posturing and superiority bit from some subset of men; smugness and condescension about luck is common enough that I'm familiar with it.)