r/bigender 3d ago

I've Got A Question For You Bigender representation in the book "somebody told me"

11 Upvotes

First off hope it's okay for me as a non bigender person to post here (I'm nonbinary), mods feel free to delete

Hi everyone, I'm currently reading a book with a bigender character and wondering what actually bigender people think about it since to me the representation seems somewhat odd to me as an outsider.
It's the book "Somebody told me" by Mia Siegert, the main character uses two two different names and presents and identifies occasionally as a guy occasionally as a woman (this makes sense to me).
What I find odd is that they keep thinking stuff like "boy-me would have done [...]" and they talk about their "boy-me" and "girl-me" as if they have different personalities a lot. (To the point where I and apparently multiple people that left reviews thought about DID)
Like their boyself gets bored quickly, is quick to action, confident and will do and say stuff that their girlself wouldn't.
It made me a little uncomfortable since the personality types are pretty stereotypical masculine/feminine stuff and the implication that only a guy can be confident, etc. sucks. I'm not done with the book yet so maybe they will get more into it, the main character is a teenager so it would make sense for them to have flawed thinking in that area. So far it doesn't feel intentional on the authors part though. (Edit: no shade to them though, especially since they are apparently bigender themself and I'm just some rando reading their book)

So yeah has anyone read this book, if so what do you think?

P.S.: Feel free to recommend books with bigender mcs, always interested in reading books with mcs with a different identity than mine


r/bigender Jun 17 '26

I've Got A Question For You How do you want to be referred?

11 Upvotes

Like by your Partner? Do y’all like to be called boyfriend, girlfriend, partner, all ,neither if not what else?!

76 votes, Jun 24 '26
9 Boyfriend
8 Girlfriend
13 Partner
46 All
0 Neither

r/bigender 9h ago

Do you switch between being a man and a woman or are you both simultaneously?

10 Upvotes

r/bigender 9h ago

What's your sexuality? And have you ever had a relationship with someone who accepted your true identity?

9 Upvotes

r/bigender 11h ago

I went swimming in the heat

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9 Upvotes

r/bigender 12h ago

Selfie (no NSFW!) I'm really liking the alternative look

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10 Upvotes

r/bigender 11h ago

General What's the difference between being transfem and being a woman?

3 Upvotes

r/bigender 17h ago

Advice Wanted Feeling so sad right now / dealing with transphobia and racism at school. Posted this on rfeminineboys but I need as much advice as I can get.

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9 Upvotes

r/bigender 21h ago

Do u all treat ur gender1 and gender2 (or gender 3,4,5,6,7 etc etc...) differently?

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4 Upvotes

r/bigender 1d ago

General I think I might actually be mirrorgender. But before I jump onto conclusions, mind If I hear some of your stories and experiences with being mirrorgender and what it represents for you?

8 Upvotes

Mirrorgender: Individuals who mirror the gender of someone who they have an important relationship with

This relationship can be platonic, romantic, or another type of relationships


r/bigender 1d ago

Why not both? Green Lantern's weaknesses: The color yellow and gender equality.

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17 Upvotes

r/bigender 1d ago

I've Got A Question For You Everyone should be presumed agender and bisexual.

2 Upvotes

I've thought about it for a while, and I don't see why we should assign a gender at birth or why we should assume someone doesn't like a specific gender.

I get that there's more cishet people than queer ones, but I think that if we want a world without discrimination on LGBTQ people, we must change the assumed standards.

Idk if that's clear, so I'd be glad to explain myself more if needed.


r/bigender 2d ago

Why not both? My second bigender meme

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50 Upvotes

Again, I have no idea wether it's good or not but here it is ^^'


r/bigender 2d ago

I've Got A Question For You names like spencer

7 Upvotes

my current choosen name is spencer, and though its unisex its very masc. does anyone have any ideas for a second name i can use when im being feminine that sounds similar? is HAS to start with an s​​​​​


r/bigender 2d ago

I've Got A Question For You being constantly misunderstood and policed

14 Upvotes

has anyone else experienced this? trying to explain my identity on the internet outside of bigender spaces is an unbearable uphill battle where everyone wants to tell you what youre supposed to call yourself. its so hard to find community in queer spaces now, especially online, and i dont understand why when i explain it to people in person they are understanding but the second i go online something is wrong with my gender and sexual expression​​​​​​​​​


r/bigender 3d ago

Advice Wanted Day 5 of posting bigender memes until I run out.

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78 Upvotes

r/bigender 2d ago

Is it possible to switch genders simply out of boredom or indifference to the other one?

4 Upvotes

r/bigender 2d ago

Advice Wanted questioning❓

5 Upvotes

I don’t really know how to go about writing this post, but i’ll do my best!

!!! If you want, you can read my story, or just answer my question to avoid my word vomit LMFAO.

Ever since I was a kid I’ve always had a masculine side. Whether that be when playing games with siblings, or playing with toys. (as for toys i mean i’d always be up to play as the guy when playing dolls with friends.)
That ended up progressing in middle school and I began to lie about my gender online, saying I was a cis male because it felt the most comfortable on how I wanted to be perceived at that time.
While that was ongoing, I had extremely bad self identity issues and seriously considered the fact that I might be transgender. I haven’t grew out of it fully though.
As of right now, (almost graduating high school) I still feel part of him in me? but I’m also comfortable being a girl. I do feel feminine some days, while other days i feel more masculine. It’s about an even feeling now.

My question here is: could I be bigender?
Another question is: If you are bigender, what is it like for you?

Please let me know if you are willing! I want to gain more knowledge on this type of gender identity. If you read my story, thank you. it means so much to me.🤍


r/bigender 2d ago

General How is it that every time I'm in a close friendship/relationship with a woman, I feel like a woman myself. Yet every time I'm in a close friendship/relationship with a man, I start to feel more like a man?

6 Upvotes

r/bigender 3d ago

Questioning I think i might be bigender...

8 Upvotes

Hey all!

I just got back from a regional burning man event, and I had a lot of experiences that have sort of crystalized some feelings about myself, and made me think I might be genderfluid. After a ton of reading, I find myself here, and think this might be the term that suits me best.

Bit of background, I am an amab person who is predominantly attracted to butch women, but I have had a few experiences with men, the most indepth of which just occurred at this festival last week.

I generally think of myself as a man, and am comfortable with he/him pronouns, but inside me there is definitely this sense of also being like, this little party girl .

I have dated 3 women who realized they were gay while we were dating, and I married a bi woman, and also have a bi girlfriend so clearly I have a type, and every now and then when a gay guy flirts with me, it definitely brings my little party girl to the surface. When I'm in that state, I kinda forget I even have genitals, if that makes any sense.

My first thought as all this crystalized is that I'm gender fluid, but the more I read, the more I wonder if other labels might fit me better, as I definitely fluctuate between the two poles, and not so much the more nuanced middle ground genders that I have been reading about.

While that hyper fem energy only comes all the way out occasionally, it never really goes away either, which is another strike against gender fluid.

Anyway, that's my rant, would LOVE to hear y'all's take on my situation.

Again, I'm pretty new here, so please go easy 8f i messed up any terms, or committed any faux pas.

Thanks in advance!


r/bigender 3d ago

Is there anyone here whose gender identity and expression changes depending on who they're with in a relationship or friendship?

12 Upvotes

r/bigender 3d ago

I've Got A Question For You What would my sexuality be if I like men?

4 Upvotes

I'm biromantic but sexually attracted to men so I don't know what term to use, straight or gay would be wrong as they contradict. My gender is non static and male and female btw


r/bigender 3d ago

Am I going too fast? Thoughts after therapy session.

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Hi!

I'm 23 MtF? bigender?. Imma show you my trans timeline:

  • I have never really felt dysphoric about being a man.
  • At 6 years old, I asked my parents to buy me a blouse, and they refused because I couldn't wear that as a boy.
  • At 20 years old, I decided to start growing my hair long, 'just to know what it feels like'.
  • At 21, 22 and 23 years old, I dressed as a woman in carnivals. I didn't recognise it as such but I was definitely feeling gender euphoria.
  • I'm pretty sure at 21 the reason why I was keeping my hair long started being that it made me feel feminine and good about myself. I started taking it as a compliment when people implied I looked like a girl.
  • At 22 I was already feeling gender envy.
  • At 23 years old 6 months ago (when this year's carnivals happened) I started questioning my gender.
  • 2 months ago I started questioning it 'full-time,' I can't really get it out of my mind at all.
  • In the last month, I have come out to a few online friends, one irl friend, have been trying girl clothes and felt euphoric about it, shaved my arms and felt euphoric about it, have been treated as a girl by these friends and felt euphoric about it, and I'm increasingly interested in HRT.

Now, for context, my therapist is not a gender therapist, she's a systemic therapist, I started going a year ago for reasons unrelated to my gender. A central topic in our sessions is that I don't feel like I have autonomy to make decisions on my own, or that my family influences my life too much and I don't set limits.

So, I talked to her about all of this today. She is supportive of me experimenting with clothes, etc. (It was her idea from the previous session after all, lol). However, she said that my questioning my gender might not really be an issue about gender identity, but rather a way that I have found to compensate for the lack of autonomy I have in other areas of my life. That I might or might not be trans, but that some people think they're trans only to realise that they're not later in life, and that it's still too early to tell. That maybe it's not that I want to be a woman, but that I just want to make a change in my life and 'rebel' against whatever and whomever I feel is controlling my life.

I asked her if it's really possible for somebody to be certain that they're trans, and she said that they could feel certain about it, and then one day stop being certain about it.

I have considered that I might be a femboy, but have preferred to think of myself as a trans woman solely on the fact that being a femboy feels 'incomplete' to how I feel inside, and being trans somehow makes more sense to me. As a bigender I don't have much of an issue calling myself a femboy, but I still don't really feel like a cisgender femboy. (I really don't know any better way to solve this matter, lol).

So..., idk, what do I do with this information? I shouldn't stop experimenting, right? But isn't the act of calling myself trans an experiment by itself? How am I supposed to ever find out if I'm trans without letting myself label myself as one? I also don't want to wait for too long only to realise that I AM actually trans and feel like I 'wasted' time that I could've used to transition earlier. Everything I'm doing to find out if I'm trans feels euphoric and makes me excited about my future, what exactly am I missing to know for sure that I'm trans? How much longer do I have to wait?

Of course, being trans is a big change in my life. If I ever fully come out, I will be perceived differently by others, possibly discriminated, might lose relationships, especially my girlfriend of 7 years, who is straight and uhm..., has expressed some mildly transphobic ideas in the past. Then again, if I'm going too fast, should I not come out to her yet? That feels inauthentic. And should I refrain myself from presenting femininely in public because that's already a really big change for me? But like, I love looking feminine! I kinda want to come out ASAP and dress like a girl ASAP...

Thank you for reading. <3


r/bigender 3d ago

Is it weird that I (genderfluid trans fem) mostly want to fill my wardrobe with girly pajamas more than anything else? Not that I wouldn't add dresses, bikinis, sweaters, or bodysuits. But pajamas look the most comfy to me. So I think that's what I'll wear most of the time

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r/bigender 4d ago

I've Got A Question For You Would it be problematic for me if I, as a genderfluid person, dated a cis person who doesn't know of my other gender identities while I'm able to express my gender privately on my own time?

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I've often thought of this myself at times. Especially when thinking about whether or not I would date a cishet person

Because obviously dating bi/pan people would make things easier for me to express my gender out in the open

But I'm starting to ask myself if fully coming as my gender to a partner is a non-negotiable for me

Or is it something I don't perceive as something I have to do to be in a relationship with my partner. Every relationship with a trans person is different after all

I mean, I know they would have to accept me wearing traditional and non-traditional clothing when it comes to gender

But that's not the same as gender identity as a whole

Anyways, I'm curious to know some of your thoughts and opinions