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Originally Posted by imperfect_cupcake
Some people use it meaning they don't feel like a woman, nor a man but their own gender, and use it in that sense. Some of my partners have had a masculine gender that was not a "man" but just their own making, so they called themselves genderqueer - since the gender had no name as it was individual, they prefered calling themselves genderqueer.
Some people use it because they feel they have more than one gender. My exwife felt like she was a woman (gender) and a butch (gender) and those two genders shifted back and forth with each other like a lava lamp. She called herself gender fluid/genderqueer
Some people shift back and forth between woman and man, like my friend David-Jane. S/he does not wish to physically change hir sex from male to
female, but hir two genders share the same body and depending on the day of the week s/he is David or Jane. S/he calls hirself genderqueer.
There are other uses for it. But those are three that I personally am most familiar with.
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What a great explaination!
Very clear and well thought out...easy for even me to understand.
