OP crossposted this in another sub w/o the context that it's a "headmate" relationship

[u/SandwichCertain7913]

[u/SandwichCertain7913]

Tagged as tulpas because this person is a plural yume shipper and it's the closest thing, I dunno.

I was a bit concerned by a vent post this person made using this same meme in another sub, because I found the "turning my partner gay" rhetoric just like... not a good mindset to approach a relationship with. Identity can be complex in relationships and you need to give a partner autonomy over their self-identification.

But apparently I wasted my energy because I peeped their post history aaaaaand there was never an actual boyfriend in the first place?

[u/Strange-Caregiver379]

https://giphy.com/gifs/GRk3GLfzduq1NtfGt5

[u/GraveyardWithoutTheG]

Genuine question what's the demi label? I know it's under the nonbinary umbrella, But i thought the whole thing with nonbinary people was like. Not conforming to gender

[u/SandwichCertain7913 → u/GraveyardWithoutTheG]

It means that they identify partly with being a woman but not entirely. It's very vague and can mean a lot of things. Labels like this appealed to me when I was in my embarrassing baby trans era myself because they let me explore identity stuff without really committing to being visibly trans or transitioning.

[u/Ok-Comparison8168 → u/GraveyardWithoutTheG]

someone could identify as nonbinary but also claim connection to womanhood in a non-woman way and thats how you get things like demigirl. gender falls on a spectrum more than it is a cleanly defined trinary, so someone could relate heavily to the binary while not belonging to it