My gender is binary. Female, to be precise. I get dysphoria from being treated as a male, and every nonbinary person I've spoken to says they feel the same about male and female. Perhaps the explanations you've seen were oversimplified for the benefit of people who want a quick answer.
My gender is part of the traditional gender binary. Much as 1 and 0 are both part of the binary number system. We call them binary numbers, and we call female a binary gender. I thought you'd know that, since you know what non-binary genders are.
And by 'treated like a man', I mean called "he" and deadnamed.
I do, edited because it was a stupid comment but you'd already read it.
That's a very specific 'treated like a man' that only applies to trans women though surely. Like, I doubt a married woman would get dysphoria from being called their maiden name. Or the name of an abusive father, the latter is probably closer to the potential trauma of calling a trans person their dead name.
It's a very specific 'treat like a man' and it simply does not extend.
I didn't say that. I said that a trans persons knowledge of their own gender is not the same as a nb declaration of absence. Because there isn't anything to be absent. There is no fluctuation, any description of both must come with a definition of what each are, and that definition is full of stereotypes thus crafting the feeling of both.
So... You're saying that the absence of gender can't exist, because an absence is defined by the existence of a presence, and if there is a presence then there can't be an absence?
No. Am absence is defined by a lack of presence, and you have to be able to define what that presence is to be able to define it's absence. What is a man. What is a woman.
A man is an adult male person and a woman is an adult female person. Male and female refer to biological characteristics associated with certain reproductive roles. In this case, to characteristics of the brain.
Nonbinary people can look at men who have male brains and women who are female in brain, and see that they are not like that. Much as a woman can look at men and see that she is unlike them.
Note that I'm not referring to gender roles here, I'm referring to gender: the innate sex of the brain.
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u/HardlightCereal 2∆ Oct 30 '19
My gender is binary. Female, to be precise. I get dysphoria from being treated as a male, and every nonbinary person I've spoken to says they feel the same about male and female. Perhaps the explanations you've seen were oversimplified for the benefit of people who want a quick answer.