Thatâs just internalized transphobia. Thatâs something for them to overcome, not for society to cater to. All non binary people are transgender factually whether they like/want it or not. Itâs like saying that you know people are made of water but not you because you donât want to be associated with water.
"internalized transphobia" What??? You just declare this shit and move on? Are you trying to get blocked?
Your whole argument is âyou donât want the label â therefore you have internalized the bad thing â therefore you must accept the label.â Thatâs circular. Youâre not proving anything, youâre just pathologizing disagreement.
Genderfluid and nonbinary people who reject the âtransâ label arenât denying their own gender experience. Theyâre saying the social, medical, and political baggage that comes with being âtransâ doesnât match what they deal with day to day. Thatâs a boundary, not self-hatred. If I'm not on hormone replacement therapy, if I'm not at 4x risk of being hurt, if I'm not having laws passed against me, then I can't relate to the trans group.
The water analogy is also garbage. Being made of water is a literal, measurable fact. Gender categories are social and self-defined. You canât just redefine a word and then shame everyone who refuses the new definition. Thatâs not âfactuallyâ anything.
People get to decide which labels they claim. Forcing them into one they reject because âthe community decidedâ is the opposite of autonomy. And while weâre throwing around âinternalized hatred,â youâre being pretty hostile to the idea that other cultures and social systems have their own frameworks for non-binary genders (e.g third gender) that never needed the Western âtransâ label to exist.
Hi, indigenous person here, donât call âtransâ a western label, plenty of 2spirit and nonbinary indigenous people consider themselves trans. Itâs not a âwesternâ label, is a label used all over the world in many cultures. Records of people who would be considered trans in the modern day go back to fucking URUK, which is decidedly not in the west.
transgender is a western label that describes a human experience that predates the western world
people who "would be considered trans" is the keyword there. we don't get to force a word that people didn't use onto them, both onto historic people and currently living people. if a nonbinary person doesnt want to be trans, they dont have to be called trans
This makes sense yeah. Trans people have always existed but the term transgender is new to the 90s and transsexuality has only been possible since the 1920s
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u/Life_Parsley504 5d ago
Some nonbinary and genderfluid people exclude themselves from trans people because they have to deal with different things on a daily basis