Lack of understanding of genderqueer

imperfect_cupcake · 01-13-2015, 01:05 AM

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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01-13-2015, 01:05 AM	#14
imperfect_cupcake Senior Member How Do You Identify?: feminine dolly dyke Preferred Pronoun?: Your Grace Relationship Status: I put my own care first Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: In a gauze of mystery Posts: 1,776 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,426 Thanked 9,711 Times in 1,611 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	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.