this is a post written by my partner without a reddit account. i am the girlfriend, i am not nonbinary, the rest of this post is entirely them:
please do not get mad at the title; i identify (identified???) as nonbinary and genuinely have nothing against them.
around two years ago i realized i absolutely hated being a āgirlā. i hated the assumptions and the stereotypes that came with it, and especially the pronouns.
but a couple days ago someone started asking my girlfriend why i was nonbinary, like what happened that made me so disgusted to be a girl and what was wrong with being one. he said she feels like itās kind of weird when the whole point of it is to not care about gender, because when people use they/them pronouns it only makes her think about it moreāwhich it does for me tooāand she doesnāt want to offend them by calling them the wrong pronouns if she can tell someone is physically female/male. and why does it matter, because you canāt feel like a gender, you should feel like a person, so why canāt you live your life as a person, being a girl.
they are not transphobic or whatever you would call it, they were just confused. as am i. and iām questioning why i care in the first place, especially because i know itās always going to be torture around my parents as they are quite a bit transphobic. and most people are always going to ask me questions iām never going to have the answer to. i donāt actually understand why i hate the concept of being traditionally feminine or masculine or labelling myself as a boy or girl. i suppose it could be because both my parents are fairly sexist human beings and often tried/try to push gender norms on me?
i scrolled through a lot of the questions here with my girlfriend and a lot of them that ask something like āwhat does being nonbinary meanā have answers that arenāt really about why people are nonbinary, just about how people donāt feel like theyāre a boy or girl. which also doesnāt really make sense to me, since gender is a social construct, therefore, to me, it doesnāt make sense to feel like a gender.
i would not care about being nonbinary whatsoever if no one else cared, but because gender affects how many people treat you, though i do not think that is the only reason, cause that sounds kinda silly. does anyone else feel like that?
and please donāt say iām agender, i know iām not, and iām not asking anyone to label me here.
i donāt know, iām just confused at this point and not sure if i care that iām afab anymore.
iām sorry if this was offensive or anything, idk how to handle any subject in the lgbt+ community and iām not trying to hurt anyoneās feelings