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[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I feel like most non-binary identities are silly. As others have said, for most, it seems similar to being “goth” or “emo”. It’s just a like a new way of labeling some type of alternative expression, but worse because other people are asked to participate.

Do you think there are differences between them and people who identify as the opposite sex or not?

I feel like it can be different or it can be the same. I feel like for transsexuals, identity isn’t the important part. We have identities, of course, but like changing your body to be like the opposite sex or passing as the opposite sex are what that is, rather than just being about an identity. That’s how I think of it at least. I guess that could apply to some non-binary people, but I feel like it’s usually not about that.

What do you think of neo-pronouns?

They don’t make sense as pronouns because pronouns are supposed to make language easier. Neo-pronouns seem almost like nicknames.

Do you think people who identify as such should be able to get their official documents changed to reflect their "gender identities" instead of their sex?

No. I do feel like having sex not be visible unless someone really needs to know it would be nice though.

Edit: I looked back and realized I misunderstood the last question! I thought it was about non-binary things on IDs, not sex markers. I changed the sex markers on all my identification years ago after I had bottom surgery (which was required to do that then) and it made moving through the world a lot easier. I feel like there might be ways to make it less visible so it wouldn’t be as necessary, but I wouldn’t want to be outed and potentially discriminated against because of a sex marker. I made a thread discussing this awhile ago.

https://saidit.net/s/GCdebatesQT/comments/62sl/gc_legal_sex_change_is_there_room_for_compromise/