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sometimes im like 'oh i should step in as a voice of measured reason into the trans culture war' but then i poke my head in and its just some angry screeching ppl in a dark muddy room committing war crimes at each other, and im like oh ok nvm but you guys have fun in there

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you have to be trans to speak for it

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i am trans

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can you say a little more? since when please?

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i have no sense of gender, which is the definition of agender, which is under the trans umbrella

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Aug 12, 2022

"I have no sense of gender" is like straight people saying "I don't sense my sexuality." Of course you don't. That's called a norm. No matter if you call it "gender" or "masculinity and femininity," the extent to which you deviate from the norm is what gives you a sense of it.

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agender groups would like to have a word with u (but also like, ??? i dont really care about what agender is, its just interesting that according to trans/genderqueer definitions, this does in fact follow)

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I consider gender to be relational, social, and personal. If you don’t sense it, I don’t find that meaningfully similar to the sense of desired expression I’m trying to describe when I speak of my gender. It just seems like you’re using technicalities to deflect.

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im down for a definition, but like, when i was like 'am i agender' and went around in online queer groups and read up on it and asked people, everyone was like "you're agender if you identify as agender" or "if you don't identify with a gender"

7:24 AM · Aug 22, 2022

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agender might be removing oneself from the whole gender debate and saying i choose to have no role in this issue and i stand aside from it or perhaps i do not wish to be associated with any one gender or perhaps i am choosing to refrain from sharing a gender identity with you

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i suggest it is lacking to say "i don't identify with any gender" reason is, gender is a spectrum and therefore covers everyone if you don't "feel" any one gender, this means investigation is needed so do you prize being "presentable" ie looking good in the world at large?