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Im one of the people really confused by both trans and non-binary. I don't have a problem with it at all, I just don't understand it (and have come to terms with that completely). I do find it incredibly interesting though.
I feel like your reasoning here is ok, but when we talk about women having breast, its like saying humans have 2 feet. No, it doesn't make anyone less human if they lost one, but generally, genetically speaking, humans have 2 feet. Which is why, to me, "human" is an understandable term, and woman, not as sex but gender, is not.
I don't "feel" like a woman, I wouldn't know what it feels like to be a man. And no one have been able to explain what the difference is between what I'm feeling, and what trans people and NBs are feeling.
Comment by BluuberryBee at 14/01/2025 at 19:33 UTC
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I have trouble identifying with a particular gender as well - I don't quite understand it. I'm in the same boat I guess, which is part of what makes it hard to understand intellectually, because we don't really have specific feelings about it, while others very much do. Some would say that alone makes a person a flavor of NB, specifically agender. 🤷♀️
Some days, I remind myself that I don't need to choose any set of pronouns permanently, and that just lets me sort of . . . settle more into my own body, even if I never actually tell anyone that.
So that might be the thing - there might NOT be a big difference between what you feel and more "dramatically" or visibly trans people feel. Doesn't need to change anything in your life, just a spectrum of human experience.
Dysphoria related to trans-ness is a feeling that to my knowledge is very hard to communicate - but dysphoria is a feeling of your body being wrong fundamentally, and can be very anxiety provoking, causing mental health issues as a consequence.
I would say that breasts are less genetic than hormonal though -any trans women, on hormones, grow breasts naturally, and some men have gynecomastia.