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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
I really feel that the definition of an internal sense of gender differs for everyone. I've had it explained to me, mostly from binary trans friends who explained they have a strong internal sense of their gender. I know that a strong internal sense of gender is experienced and possible. Hearing this helped illuminate my lack of experience of an internal gender identity.
For my own internal sense of self, it is largely genderless, and I do not feel either male or female, but I do feel some kinship, a leaning to female internally, sometimes. But not strongly and not consistently, so I consider myself nonbinary because it most closely explains and helps me understand my internal experience of my own gender, or lack of strong feelings thereof. It has helped me come closer to understanding how I experience myself, and the self-knowledge has impacted how I move through the world.
So in a nutshell, I can't quite define what constitutes an internal sense of gender, but I have it on good word that you know it when you have it. Some folks have a strong sense of it, and some don't.
Comment by Different_Reading713 at 13/01/2025 at 01:19 UTC
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Idk how to explain this but I don’t understand internal sense of gender at all either. I don’t consider myself non-binary, but it’s not like in my brain I’m thinking “I’m a woman!!!” My thoughts are just there in the void. If I picture myself in my head or think about what I look like, then yes I am a woman, but simply bc that’s how I look in real life when I look in a mirror. My internal voice isn’t somehow female all on its own? I dunno how it could be bc it’s just a voice in the ether of my brain. If I woke up tomorrow and I was a man, I don’t know how I would feel about that but I do know that the voice in my head would probably be the same
Comment by [deleted] at 12/01/2025 at 15:48 UTC
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Comment by Classic_Bet1942 at 15/01/2025 at 14:46 UTC
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If every person interrogated their gender identity the way you did, most people would come to the conclusion that they’re also non-binary. Does that mean we’re a society of mostly non-binary people? And if so, what are the practical implications of that?