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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
Without a body, there is no gender. What is it that makes you feel like the gender you identify as? I certainly don't "feel like a man". I just am one. I often feel like I am not like other men because I don't like the same things or do some of the same behaviors. But I still am one. Not because of something I feel. It's just the way my body is. I'm just a conscious awareness that exists in a body, and that body has the male configuration.
Comment by SnooBeans6591 at 13/01/2025 at 01:44 UTC
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Question to you. What do you think pushes a trans-men to transition? Could it be that they really feel something that goes beyond "the body"? Maybe some cis-men also feel something that goes beyond the body.
You might not "feel like a man", but you only know what you feel. Maybe other people feel other things you never experienced. Maybe you look at them, saying gender = body, them same way a color blind person might say red = green, because they just don't experience the difference.
I mean, medical transitioning is such an awful lot of struggle, I assume they might have some actual reason for doing it, even if I don't have the same experience.
Comment by Famous-Ad-9467 at 13/01/2025 at 13:50 UTC
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Same thing for me as a woman. I have no woman feeling, no feeling that yeah, I'm definitely not a man. I'm just born as a woman. My hormones and upbringing dictate certain things about me as a woman. I know what is like to live as a woman. But feel woman, it's not a feeling.
Comment by ReneeBear at 12/01/2025 at 23:15 UTC
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So I have the opposite experience. I am a trans woman. I was “born a man”, and everything about my experience refused to accept that. Thus, I am a transgender woman.
The catch is you will not understand something other than the status quo until you experience it. The reason you’re not describing having strong feelings about gender is because you’ve never felt the wrongness with the gender you were assigned to the point you had to reject it.
Comment by UNisopod at 12/01/2025 at 16:18 UTC
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So you have a subjective experience which is related to that configuration, right?