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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
So could you answer OP’s question for us? Without using body parts, hormones, or social roles, what does an internal sense of gender feel like?
Comment by ThrowMeAwayLikeGarbo at 13/01/2025 at 18:57 UTC
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As a nonbinary person, it feels like my internal sense of self is the Kiki/Bouba effect overlayed like I'm looking at red/blue 3D effects without the glasses on.
There's a memory I have from back in high school, before I learned that non-binary was a thing, where the class was split up, guys on the right side and girls on the left. I hesitated in the middle, I felt frozen for a minute. Logically, I knew which side I should be standing on. It was a no-brainer. So why did I freeze? I couldn't explain it at the time and that question ate at me every time something similar happened.
It was only after I had access to biopsych research journals and really dove into the nitty gritty of neurochemistry/neuroanatomy that I reconciled with how I'd always felt. I had to call a spade a spade.