heist wrote:disintegration wrote:heist wrote:
i don't think nonbinary and trans identities belong under the same umbrella and it's actually reductive/almost dangerous to lump them together
why tho? what is trans but the opposite of cis?
sure that's what the umbrella sort of means now but when i think of it i think the goals of trans(gender and sexual) people's goals/political needs are often different from individuals who are "nonbinary" -- which like , doesn't really have a definition
like there's such a wide variety of nonbinary experience that's sort of veered the course of trans activism to a lot of more representative / symbolic discourse (pronouns, specifically) because there are nonbinary people who don't necessarily want to "transition" medically or socially or whatever, which is fine but just means like the lived experience is so different, so wedging is under the same umbrella does nothing for either group
like as much as i think labels are stupid on a personal level i think they serve a function in guiding/defining a movement politically, and i think the primary focus for trans people should be like, healthcare and BASIC human rights like not being murdered, rather than pronouns or what have you
idk if this makes any sense at all
nonbinary people need those resources too and not every binary trans person has the same experience either, yeah, neo pronoun discussions are stupid for the most part, but it seems weird to leave out nonbinary people of trans discussions, because things like health care, legal stuff,... concerns us too.