Why do you assume that their apparent gender is the same as their birth gender?
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Not a crazy assumption. It’ll be right most of the time
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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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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?
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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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I view them as a nut
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I've never had anyone introduce themselves as non-binary, even several who obviously were, or obviously in transition. Mostly seems up to observers to puzzle it out.
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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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