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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Someone introduces themselves as nonbinary. Do you intuitively, at a gut level, view them as neither male nor female, or does your brain process them as their apparent birth gender? (this is regardless of how you treat them, if you use pronouns, etc.)
  • Neither male/female
    3.8%
  • It varies a lot
    19.3%
  • Typically birth gender
    76.8%
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Kralik
@earlkralik
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@Aella_Girl
Sex identification feels like an automatic process that I don't even think about. I'm just subconsciously aware if someone is male or female, even if they're at a distance or in my periphery. The vast majority of "non-binary" people aren't going to be able to override that.
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Sandbot
@Sandbot2
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@Aella_Girl
i've learned the cognitive trick of viewing people as male/female/non-binary at will, though it's much less effortful if they 'look the part' it's like learning to play around with optical illusions - making the dancer spin left or right, etc.
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imuli
@trystimuli
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@Aella_Girl
Someone (on the internet with no photo) says something. Do you intuitively, at a gut level, view them as neither male nor female, or does your brain process them as their apparent birth gender?
  • Neither male/female
    33.8%
  • It varies a lot
    39%
  • Typically birth gender
    27.3%
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Chris
@BigDognTraining
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@Aella_Girl
There are certain things/features that we notice at an unconscious level. That makes it hard to not view them as their biological gender. It's like a cat walking up and claiming to be a dog. If you want to call yourself a dog, that's cool. But you're still a cat.
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April
@AprilSDA
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@Aella_Girl
Lots of non-binary people do a nearly full-on transition more similar to binary trans people than to cis people- I find it unlikely that anyone consistently sees these people as their birth gender on a gut level. Unless that’s what you mean by “apparent” birth gender?
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