Have you read the wings of fire series? If you love dragons, you'll love that

I thought ace folk ARE dragons?

@@noahbutboatless2169 shhh they're not supposed to know

@@rai1879 omg yes! Read them a few years ago :)

@@rai1879 YOOO wings of fire was my childhood.

And then the others in their house will be like, "sometimes i bump into a window, sometimes i bump into Jamie the trans-parent."

Why do I love this joke so much? 😂😂😂

at least he will be visible every 31st of March!

Ahaha I love that :))

@Dusty Ganilla he* and biological kids and not the only kids- don’t be so disrespectful and transphobic

I live in a hot area so winters are great but in summer i have to stay in the fridge and if its really hot then a freezer or I'll start boiling

Hey! Sorry if this comes off as rude, but could you explain what being genderfluid is? I'm a bit confused on it

@@sandcat1473 it’s when you don’t feel a connection to just one gender. So some days you can feel androgynous, female, male or multiple at once :)

@@Ya_like_jazzz So is it similar to pangender?

@@Ya_like_jazzz or am I going in the wrong direction-

"When I was your age, genderfuid was something you had to clean up afterwards."

@@grumpyoldman3458 PFFT

As someone who is genderfluid I can confirm that I am infact just a liquid, usually it's quite fun but when it gets too hot I have to hide in a fridge or airconditioned room else I'll boil

once it took my friends 3 hours to get me to thaw out, had to put me in an oven

@@grumpyoldman3458 WHOA WHOA HOLD IT-

IDK, it sounds amazing. Congratulations.

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I mean, there are plants and as far as I know that includes some types of trees, that have male and female versions. But it is of course sex, not gender, since plants don't exactly have their own society (...as far as we know). Also there are gendered languages where all nouns have genders, in german, french, spanish and greek you would be male, then. And probably in a lot of other languages too. Maybe there are some that have female trees, but I don't know about any. If your gender is that of a tree, does that mean you use the same pronouns as a tree? Do you go by it/its?

@@annakilifa331 this is a very in-depth explanation, and I'm really impressed that you know so much. This line I say is only meant to confuse people, but I go by she/they(as of right now, when I made this comment I identified as they/them), but yea, the line is just meant to confuse people. Hope this helps : )

Dude, my school can't even give me paracetamol for my cramps without phoning my parents to get their word that I'm not pregnant.

Yikes.

Lactose intolerant kids have to bring their own lactaid too

Gender affirming- What does that mean sorry I'm dumb

@@LaDaDaDeDaDaDa.. it means supporting/affirming an individual's gender identity. No you're not dumb it's okay :D

It's always nice to be appreciated for anything that takes effort, but the end goal is for our (allies') state of mind to be something that takes no effort whatsoever.

I know I shouldn't applaud allies for doing the bare minimum, but when the average person in my area reacts to gays with disgust, I can't help but be *very* happy about someone knowing I'm not straight and being okay with it.

@@nataliaborys1554 We appreciate kindness. It's a societal problem that just acceptance of people being different **is** functionally a kindness, when it should be a given instead.

@@nataliaborys1554 True. Not saying that we need to throw a party every time allies simply exist, but when they show clear support in spite of an actively hostile environment, there is a certain courage in that and it should be applauded.

How about some bisexual 👉finger guns👉

She spittin‘ facts

@@themyconidwitch she do be

Bruh that’s literally my identity journey 😂

Take some time off social media, breathe, and spend some time inside your head. When your brain is constantly attacked by an overload of stuff, it's hard to know yourself and how you actually feel. The internet is great, but so many people have no clue who they are and what they think about anything because they refuse to let themselves think. That's why internet trends sway so much between everyone being progressive, then everyone being conservative, then everyone being progressive... until the end of time. Hope your journey is going well.

I love you

thank you for being awesome 🥺❤

This warmed my heart, it can mean so much.

@The Werewolf Of Scandinavia Not as slim as you might think. A lot of people don't dare talk about it for fear of being ostracized.

@The Werewolf Of Scandinavia bro I encounter people in the community all the time, at my work, at school, online, and out in public. You are just not consciously aware of it. There are people that i'm friends with who "appear straight" but when you get to know them they tell you that they are not. So if you are not encountering them you either are blindly assuming they are straight or you are not creating a positive environment for them to tell you. Also even if it was "rare" you should still prepare yourself for an encounter with someone in that community

Yep, we are a bunch of happy spuds who love our supportive little potato family.

Yes, what a beautiful family!

@@sunnyquinn3888 omg my name is Quinn too

@@certifiednerd542 We're Quinnsies!

i always thought he was saying "hey ace buds"

This is very relatable to me but in a different way. I have a disability that is very unpredictable so some days I basically function like an able-bodied person, and some days I can't do the most basic things. Took me a bit to accept that the days that I am functional don't mean I am not disabled.

@@laartje24 Love this comment! Very relatable

@@laartje24 Ugh oh my God this is so real. I have definitely had this experience in the dis/ability space, too. And I know lots of trans people who’ve felt what OP is talking about.

Which is dysphoria about not having dysphoria

You're a liar

Better late than never.

Heck yeah! So happy you got the girl!

that’s amazing i’m so proud of you,

That's so sweet - you got your girl in the end!

Thanks for clearing things up

Welcome to the ace spec - you are a whole complete beautiful person, whether you like cake or not (though ace people do have a tendancy towards cake) ♠️🎂

If you don't like cake, celebrate being a dragon instead! We're all dragons on the inside!

And garlic bread! Never forget the garlic bread.

Space plants dragon or cake Aces Pick your clan!

@@Beacuzz I'm a dragon BAKER and BOTANIST! I need not choose! I CAN HAVE PLANTS, CAKE, AND DRAGONS! .... Fortunately, I dont find myself interested in space, that makes that easier.

I love your name ❤️

I got outed in an email by my school counselor, WHO DOESNT EVEN HELP ME! My parents told me they will never call me Evan (ik it's a male name, but it feels comfy), and it sucks.

@@itsemigo I’m so sorry about all of that, I think Evan is a lovely name. Hopefully things will get better for you Evan 💜

@@itsemigo evan is a great name

@@itsemigo i know both guys and girls who have the name evan. you’re fine! :)

Me too •́ ‿ ,•̀

**drinks cup of genderfluid** sorry i was thirsty

@@Ashlee665 oh shit was it you?!?!?! did you take my gender?

I was pretty convinced it was from being canadian

I’m a demigirlflux and do not only freeze, I hibernate and I die 33 times.

At least you don't evaporate into gender gas during the summer. I need to keep the windows down just to prevent that from happening.

im genderfluid in the winter early spring and late fall but gendergas the rest of the year

@Pancakemantaray I am starwars hun

@The Werewolf Of Scandinavia Aces are not necesarily victims of sexual assault (SA), and it's rude to assume that. While people who suffer from trauma due to SA and identify as ace because of it are valid, there are also aces who simply have never felt any sexual attraction (like me). It may be completely unrelatable to allo people (like you, I'm assuming), but that doesn't mean we dont exist.

@The Werewolf Of Scandinavia Where did you say that? Genuinely, all I see is you asking "Are you a victim?" on this thread. If you mentioned it on a different thread, then I'm sorry I didn't see it. I was just commenting based on what I saw. Plus, it was never meant as an attack to you, just wanted to spread knowledge around for those who dont know

*hides fresh cake*

It is time for cake my dudes

As you are ace, I must assume you like frogs as well, so I must inform you that tarantulas like to keep frogs as pets, specifically, humming dot frogs.

That is unbelievably awesome 🥰

That’s amazing I’m glad they are working on making a change

@@maem7462 same. For many of our employees, particularly the executive board, it was the first time we spoke on the subject of transgender people. And they wanted to learn, which was wonderful

U should know the acronym then....lgbtqia+.....

@@tashaax1993xanimalloverx as an LGBT+ person, I will not make a fuss if someone doesn't use all the letters lol I am happy to see someone being supportive and encouraging support for the community 😊

Same

Love cake

@@azurenight5160 cake is delicious

@@Sophie-mv7bd I know right I love cake

My favorite is chocolate with vanilla frosting

I am a bit in the same boat. I'm ace and homoromantic, an identity a lot of people don't understand and therefore don't respect. I really want to be a good trans ally, but I really don't understand xenogenders?? Is Lunagender a xenogender? Where can I read to understand this? How is it different from personality/interest? What makes the object their gender? I've seen kids appropriating severe mental illnesses online (I'm mentally ill and know very much about psychiatry and these kids were consciously making up alters that were not at all due to trauma) because they are ignorant, and some of these people, from what I could see, made up different genders too. They drew characters and made up different genders and pronouns like it was a game. I don't understand this, are they appropriating being trans? Have they misunderstood being trans? Or are so many, so very young people, a variety of xenogenders? Even if they don't feel dysphoria? I got very confused and always want to support trans people, but seeing them completely faking a severe mental illness (DID) I started doubting their genders too. It seemed so casual, impulsive and lacking in knowledge. Where can I read about xenogenders to understand more? If older people consistently feel they are xenogenders I want to learn more about it so I can become a better ally. These kids I don't know what to think about?? I've never come across anything like it, it seemed like a trendy game to them. If a person IRL told me they are a xenogender and use certain pronouns I'll of course respect that, but were can I get more information? And are some kids really making up genders??? I'm 34 years old, by the way.

@@SamirCCat I’m going to answer in a quite short manner, as I do believe that you can find more information from dedicated people online. I do not know if lunagender counts as a xenogender, but it’s when someone’s gender identity changes in phases, like the moon, thus it’s called lunagender. It varies from person to person but that’s the basis of it. I do also think there are people, especially uneducated, young people who make up genders for attention, to be special and different. That’s not to say though that there isn’t an infinite amount of genders out there, as many as there are people really, because gender is a concept that everyone, in my opinion, understands differently. The problem is when people start to pretend that they’re this or that or as you say, pretend they have alters and make up their names and genders etc. To me, that’s different than being nb / xenogender, using neopronouns etc. As for research, there are multiple lgbtq themed communiti wikis, like the lgbtqia+ wiki. There, people commit to doing research about all the different genders and document them, making it easier to find out and understand them. I’d suggest looking there, as you can browse through all the genders listed (and sexualities), and it’s made by people for people so it should be quite simple to understand how they work, even if it doesn’t quite make sense to you personally.

There are nonbinary identities I don't understand or think are superfluous and could easily be conflated into other similar identities (The border between demigenders and 'full' binary genders, some differences between identities like maverique, neutrois, graygender, androgyne etc. also elude me), but my base attitude shifted from, and I apologize for holding this view once, 'SOME Nonbinary people are giving actual trans people a bad name by overdoing this', to 'They're just different and currently reconstructing the system to acknowledge them better. If I am right, they'll grow out of it, if I am wrong, they have enough problems without me joining the dogpile.' I doubt the shift will stop here, I've been growing increasingly more NB-supportive over the past three years.

Fun fact, I was the one who created the comics, and this is based after my experience with cold environments, I legit freez so bad XD

@@loonywolf_art I can relate 😅

Genderfluid is like bromine, it has a much higher freezing point than water.

Would dragon fire also suffice?

@@Taylor-kd9ld Dragon fire would almost certainly suffice, although I must admit that no dragon I have encountered has ever attempted to burn me, so I am not entirely sure

Be careful not to turn into gendergas

gendersolid

I laughed so much at "genderfluid" that now my shoulders hurt.

@@superioroakmc942 I think I already did 0_0

@@superioroakmc942 well, gas is fluid

Not understanding doesn't always equate with hate or prejudice. I'll admit, at very first, I didn't understand those who are non binary but present in a typical feminine or masculine way. I didn't hate, I still knew they were non binary, just I....didn't grasp it? But then, I got to thinking. Plenty of cis females present in a way that we don't typically think of as feminine. Cis males do the same. So, as do non binary people. Sorry, I know that was probably off topic and a rant, but I'm glad I gave it some deeper thought. I guess I was just trying to say not understanding isn't always akin with prejudice.

It is strange when ppl use lack of understanding as an excuse to invalidate someone. Like you’re example most ppl don’t understand quantum physics but ppl aren’t invalidating that they know it exist. Same thing with rocket science or a lot of science in general not many ppl fully understand it but that doesn’t make use be like I don’t understand rocket science so it’s invalid.

Right?? I don't understand Spanish but I know it's a real freaking language!

I think I understand a fair amount of physics if it’s written down in words, but don’t understand the maths equations behind it. Which is a rather apt description of my understanding of gender and sexuality who is grey-a and is genderqueer/not quite cis/questioning. Another physics analogy that I like to use is- is you can’t see air but you know it exists and need it to live.

@@sezzac155 Omg ya idk why I didn’t think of air but that is a good one to use

This is great. Lemme just steal this joke and make all my friends roll their eyes

Just the way you KNOW how it has to be read makes it even more funny.

I'm definetly asexual and demiromantic i think but i don't seem to care at all which pronouns people call me. I just go by she/her at the moment. Is there a name for this?

CAKE

We love an ace who eats cake and makes it too!!

@Pancakemantaray people seem to really like those. I'm allergic to pineapple so I couldn't tell you when I last had one or what they taste like. I don't really know how you make one either I just know you serve it upside-down which confused the fuck out of me as a kid. I assume the cake is fairly dense so it can have structure after soaking up the juices and so it can hold up the fruit? Is it like pound cake?

@@elix1133 I haven't had/made one in years, but I remember them being dense, just not quite as dense as a poundcake. I do remember a friend subbing peaches for the pineapple, because they weren't fond of pineapples. Said it didn't come out too bad.

I love lemon cake. pls share recipe sometime

That's a very good point

Is it a good thing or bad thing tho?

@@user-hm3xs9cs4v good you weirdo

lol

@@Sophie-mv7bd balls don't have points, they're balls

On one hand, this is 100% true. On the other hand, if we start doing that, homophobes will start painting themselves as the victims. Which then will lead to more prejudice. We can't keep on spreading hate, as much as they deserve it. Hate is a vicious cycle.

@@szarekhthesilentking7043 With all due respect, this is all hand-wringing, fence-sitting rubbish. This perspective is a net loss for human rights and harmonious coexistence. For example: Say we made it public policy to treat openly anti-LGBT parents as abusive parents. Say social services start taking their kids away from them whether said kids are out as LGBT or not, on the basis that there's a chance that the kids are LGBT, and if they were then they would have to hide it for safety. There would be a backlash, everyone to the right of Laura Kuenssberg would be duly whipped up into a frenzy, they'd all howl "parental rights", and there would certainly be a temporary spike in violent hate crimes. But from that point on, every queer child in this country would be able to safely show who they really are, without fear of reprisals from the people who are supposed to love them no matter what. This is just one example of the benefit that could be achieved by fearlessly and actively suppressing bigotry in our country. The mistake that you make when you equate hating anti-LGBT people with hating LGBT people is that unlike LGBT people, anti-LGBT people are: a) doing real harm to others by being that way b) choosing to be that way c) able to stop being that way whenever they want. The logical conclusion of these three facts is that measures must be taken to convince them to stop, in proportion with the harm that they are causing. Anything less is nothing short of a failure to act.

@Dusty Ganila Your determination is impressive. Perhaps seek therapy?

@Dusty Ganila I truly wish you would show that love, rather than just talk about it.

@Dusty Ganila Why shame the tactics of others that you use yourself? Is "hounding" wrong, or just ineffective? If it's ineffective, why keep doing it?

Lucky! I want cake...

Omg biromantic aces uniteeee

Yes! Biromantic for the win! Piping in to celebrate! Edit: sorry, I'm Panromantic but hey, we all need the support!

Omg same

Yaaaay!! I'm very proud of biromantic aces, as my girlfriend, and I want to make sure every bi-ace know there's nothing wrong with you 💜 from a bi-arospec-nonbinary heart

Oh yeah it took me aaaaaages to figure out my orientation because I’m basically ace unless a romantic partner is being overtly sexy, and then my brain might flip the demisexual switch on. There were so few people I ever felt anything even remotely like sexual attraction for that it took me decades to figure out whether I was actually straight or not.

I literally had a dream about cake. That was all it was about. The stereotypes may be true.

It sure is

@@CallmeOzymandias Same lol

Genderfaun? _pursues knowledge_ If I understand that correctly that means "anything but woman"?

@@krimsonkatt the comment above you explains it…

@@sc2_Nightmare sorry but what do you mean anything but woman? is that like identifying as multiple genders or genderfluid but never female?

@@evilpotato1534 From what I found, yes, exactly that. Genderfluid but never female.

@@sc2_Nightmare alright thanks for telling me

Wait is this a joke?

@@ElfsArt24i am just revealing the lunacy of some beliefs. Overall, it isn't something I find funny, but facetiousness works to make a point.

Congratulations!! Woot woot!! 🌈❤🧡💚💙💛💜🖤🤍🌈

👏🎉

Hope those appointments go well and you're able to start. T rules. :)

Hope your appointment goes well !!☺️

That's amazing! Congrats

Well, it was between that and 'But wait, you're not like, attracted to me, right?' ... Ouch

@@kazikek2674 I guess I was lucky she didn't say that or "blacklist" me but I still felt diminished that day 🥲

@@AmelieKaren7_13 well you’re valid fellow bi

@@kazikek2674 someone did that to my friend, luckily she isn’t someone anyone I know talks to often and we know she’s homophobic

....ugh not the tokenization. I hope you've found better friends who see you as the wonderful person you are and not the stereotype they want you to be.

Atleast hes trying and that is pretty funny lol

We (cis straight men) also love to pretend lesbians would actually be bi or straight if they found the right guy, so... ugh. Bi people can be as polyamorous or monogamous, as promiscuous or prudish as anyone else, they just happen to potentially have intimate interests for more than one gender. It's a shame it seems to take so long to understand just that.

The double standard is ridiculous. As a bi man, I just got, "So, Ur GaY tHeN?" It's annoying, but that sounds so much worse.

@The Werewolf Of Scandinavia Please tell us how we're disrespecting women

@The Werewolf Of Scandinavia who id that

@The Werewolf Of Scandinavia How long are you going to keep stalking this channel? Are there other KZfaqrs you don't watch the videos of, but go into the comments anyway? Is this a cry for attention? Do you need a psychiatrist? Do you need me to hold your hand while you cry about "tHeM tRaNs PeOpLe" running your life by ignoring you? Come on. All your comments are just spam now. You're not even putting effort into the troll anymore. :)

@The Werewolf Of Scandinavia ok but if women are just inherently bad at sports then why do we even have women's sports

@The Werewolf Of Scandinavia According to Wikipedia, Lia's completion time in a 500 freestyle decreased by 15 seconds, and she still loses to cis women despite being 'a guy'. She has the same hormone levels as a cis woman. And the women competing in that event didn't care that she was trans. Tell us more :)

Similar process except I stayed at bi, and am just bi trans man

Same! Except I never really had a bi phase, I just sort of felt like being in a relationship with a woman would make me feel more male, but was aware that I was never actually attracted to them

How I figured out I'm ace. Except for the people trying to turn me straight when they found out about my lack of sexual desire Also, my journey regarding my gender identity got restarted after I discovered the term "trans agender" (which according to the local professionals doesn't exist.)

I went through a really similar process, but without the lesbian bit, and I'm still bi.

@@v3ru586 What is Trans Agender if you don’t mind explaining. I was trying to look it up but I mostly just found agender and gender fluid

Girls in kindergarten and up until 3rd grade telling me: "You are not a real girl". They did it to bully me, because I didn't fit into the binary, but I just agreed with them. And I argued that "girl" (gender) should be able to be more than what they saw as "girl". Because at that time I didn't know anything other than the binary, so my solution was to expand on what "girl" gender meant. If only I knew then what I know now... On the other hand: We still think we totally should totally dissolve the rigid ideas of the binary. People can then define as being in a corner of a 3D gender axis. But the idea wouldn't exist that there is two basic molds and then a bunch of custom ones. No molds, just amorph fluids.

@@SIC647 I like this.

Agreed

Do they weigh you before/after your shift to see if you couldn't resist the ones that didn't pass QC's? 😁

How do you work there without eating it all???

Lavender360 -- For my part, I giggle like a sixth-grade boy hearing the word 'poop' whenever I hear the word 'straight', often following it up with "heh heh, you said straight" when appropriate.

@@arcanelore3791 Hahaha.

aww thats so sweet :)

@@user-zl8mg3ll2j he was a very sweet man.

I witnessed a cis woman meet a trans woman for the first time and then went on to insist that she “needed time” to get used to the correct pronouns! I pulled her aside and had a talk with her and she used the correct pronouns for the rest of the night, but I was flabbergasted that she made it all about her.

@@sweettea1193 they're binary in that society decided there's only two options

@@sweettea1193 Reading your comments makes you look like you're just being obtuse on purpose, by refusing to accept that society can make up a binary. I'm surprised Sam N. didn't think so.

Non-binary is really simple. "Not man or woman". If you need further explanation to respect the identity, I'm gonna identify as a problem.

@@sweettea1193 i dont think its anyone elses business what your biological sex is

@a ghost late but agender means they don't have a gender... kind of like how asexual is no sexual attraction. or aromantic being no romantic attraction. the prefix "a" means none. (im a demigirl btw so if an agender person has a better explanation lmk.) thanks for educating yourelf! :)

@@orbitch648 Demigirl? I didn't know that "demi" could apply to gender. Could you explain that a bit further, please?

I'd also like to know.

@a ghost Ah that makes sense. Thanks :)

That's so cute

Can we raid to get the cake... or would that be rude?

“Antiboyotics.” OOF that’s a bad pun. Nice job 👍. The worse the pun, the better

"Antiboyotics" I'm dead! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 And welcome to womanhood ❤️ Brightest of Blessings, and I hope everything goes well for you, little sister 👍😘

@@barbarawallace6890 Thanks! ❤❤❤ Those kind of comments really help especially in the early stages.

Alice -- ANTIBOYOTICS amazing

Istg we come up with the best names for HRT in the Trans community 😂

**gives you cake**

@@violetlover3628 NO STOP THEYLL GO FERAL

CAKECAKECAKECake

@Dusty Ganilla No, it's not. Maybe if you took some time to actually try to understand, you would become a better person.

@Dusty Ganilla Don't treat anyone badly in your daily life, yet say that the labels people use to identify themselves is BS. That shows a fundamental lack of respect for people, especially those in marginalized groups. Maybe take an introspective look about why you would say their "tags" are BS. You can say you "wouldn't do anything different" if you knew their identity, but this is hypocritical when paired with the above. You don't have to be at war to be someone's ally, so that's just an absurd question. Maybe ask yourself why people in these groups would need allies, but I can tell you it's because they face discrimination and marginalization for who they are. Everyone can do something to be a better person, to be better and more accepting of the people around us, it just begins with looking inside ourselves. That's a difficult step, and I know from experience.

@@Aleolex oh ignore Dusty. They trolled on my comment too, and many others on this video. They’re literally commenting on everyone trying to get a rise

@Dusty Ganilla People aren't putting themselves into boxes, if you'd listen you'd understand. I am a heterosexual cis man. That is who I am, my identity. It's the evolution of language. People didn't have a word to describe who they are, and now they do. It's not a box, it's a way to describe their identity. Their fundamental being. They do, literally, have meaning. Just because you don't understand it doesn't change that.

@Dusty Ganilla MAPS have nothing to do with the LGBT community, and it's dangerous to everybody to spread such terrible lies. You thinking that they're "boxes" doesn't change what they actually are. I do see what's happening. I see people like you so stuck in their ways that when they see something they don't understand they dismiss it as BS. You should take a long hard look at yourself and ask why you feel like spreading hatred and distrust in comment sections under a video about acceptance of identity is a good way to spend your life.

Try also asking the pharmacist, sometimes you'll grab one of the ones who can go and berate the doctor for messing up your medication. (seriously, BOY can pharmacists be angry about doctors screwing up, sometimes)

@@neoqwerty The pharmacist where I live only care about giving you the medicine the doctor I'm seeing is out of town because we don't have doctors who specialize in LGBTQ care so he's the best I got XD

I’m sorry about that. I hope you get in touch with good ppl who actually give you T

💚💜💙

@@Mr.Frog24 still, try to get them to yell at the doctor for fucking shit up, it’s the doctors job to do his job, not the pharmacists

This is literally me- I thought I was an ally but then I realised that wishing I weren't straight so I could be in a relationship with a girl or enby person is not something straight people wish for

Hell yeah

As someone on the asezual spectrum, hell yeah!

I’m AroAce and I can say- hell yeah cake is supreme

I'm aromantic and asexual

oh ignore Dusty. They trolled on my comment too, and many others on this video. They’re literally commenting on everyone trying to get a rise

I’m so sorry dude. Having Covid (almost) messed up my plans too, I can’t imagine it denying me top surgery for 7 more weeks. Stay strong, hope you can find some good in your situation. Blessed be. -a baby Polygender (maybe) person

@@emeraldlily673 oh thank you you're so sweet! I am doing much better mentally and I waited years for this, a couple of weeks longer isn't going to kill me. And as my dad put it, you're going to have so much more time without this body than you have with it right now. I like this way of thinking, I'm looking forward to being chesticle free so much lol

I can't say I fully understand this, but if that's who they are, then that's totally valid and I support them.

Oooh... That's cool! I've actually been trying to figure out if I'm non-binary, since it occurred to me someone 100% at home with their assigned gender probably wouldn't have spent 2 years dithering over what pronouns to list (I didn't like leaving out "they", so ultimately didn't)...and because that mostly agender, ambisexual world depicted in 'The Left Hand of Darkness' always seemed oddly appealing. I'd always ruled it out because I definitely DON'T want to be a man or to be perceived as particularly masculine. But maybe "genderfae" is the word I'm looking for. Hmm.

There's also genderflor / gendervae, which refers to someone who is genderfluid between multiple genders, but never masculine or feminine. I'm agender and suspect I might be genderfluid in a way that oscillates between multiple undefined identities, so that's probably the term I've been looking for. I've described it as, suppose the gender bimodality is represented by two mountains with a valley in between, and I'm somewhere off in space, in a rocket that's perpetually spiraling out of control.

@@FrozEnbyWolf150 PLEASE that’s such a good description

@@Blazingstoke A lot of the gender terminology gets very specific, so there's a lot of vocabulary that feels "weird" if you're used to thinking that it's binary. In the end, each person's experience is their own and the words are there just to help them describe that experience to other people (or themselves). It's sort of like colour; you can often get by with the "basic" colour vocabulary, but sometimes you might want to describe a very specific colour, and it helps to have a name for it.

This is literally an exchange I had last week lol

I am gonna come out to my friends as non-binary in a few weeks, and in a weird way can't wait to finally make some of these jokes out loud. It probably gets old fast though.

@@laartje24 That sounds great, I hope it’s fun for you! And, as someone who is mostly out, the jokes never get old if you’re with the right people ^^

Congrats, you are now a battery (just joking).