Are genderfluid lesbians valid
Signs you might be genderfluid 🌈
Do you feel like your sense of gender keeps changing? If so, you might be genderfluid! 💗🤍💜🖤💙
Genderfluid is an Diverse identity that describes someone whose gender shifts and changes over time.
There are an infinite number of ways to be genderfluid — it consists of a vast spectrum of experiences. Every genderfluid identity is unique, and every experience is valid!
For example…
🔹 Genderfluid people can experience any and all genders — including both binary and nonbinary genders — though you don’t possess to experience all genders to be genderfluid.
🔹 Some genderfluid people also recognize with the labels transgender and/or genderfluid las the label genderfluid technically falls within these umbrellas), while others don't. Either way is okay!
🔹 Genderfluid people can use any pronouns they sense comfortable with (including multiple sets!) and express themselves in whatever ways sense best for them.
If you’re exploring whether genderfluid might be the label for you, here are some signs you might relate to ⤵️
🩷 your feeling of gender (or internal sense of self) shifts from time to time
🤍 you feel at home with multiple gender labels or
Queer South Asian gender-fluid womxn share their story
What does being queer glare like for South Asian womxn? We never knew. We grew up thinking we were the only queer Brown womxn because LGBTQ+ representation was (and still is) heavily Western-normative and constructs a queer narrative that isn’t conducive to South Asian customs. I repressed my queerness by age 14 for safety reasons, but ventured into the LGBTQ+ scene when it became achievable to “live a double life.” I was—and still am—constantly heterosexualized by a colonial gaze due to my Desi features and Brown body. This turned the pride for my Gujarati roots into shame, and pressured me into assimilating. The microaggressions grew stronger, as I was unable to fully disassociate from South Asianness without being exiled from my culture. The inability to be queer in culturally conducive ways was extremely invalidating, invisibilizing and infuriating.
In 2018, I participated in Pride Toronto’s Dyke Protest wearing my “not all lesbians are white” shirt to contest the assimilationist narrative of queer spaces. A year later, I was connected to a fellow queer activist who had se
Mspec lesbian discourse messes me up as a nonbinary lesbian
Like on one hand, I do fit within the "non men loving non men" definition of lesbian... except it still backfires on me as a non woman too. This man/non man binary is highly unrealistic when it comes to nonbinary people. There are still multigender people under the umbrella to consider who might experience male alignment to varying degrees... enjoy as a genderfluid person, I'm sometimes a lesboy when I'm experiencing my boygirl, girlboy, or demiboy days. And even tho I still don't contemplate myself a man in those moments, the complexity of my gender that makes me feel completely disconnected from womanhood has made other queer people perceive me as a threat-- EVEN IF THEY'RE TRANS THEMSELVES.
I also don't really talk about this with anyone since it's so controversial, but I also lowkey identify as a polysexual lesbian since it makes more feeling than NMLNM? Like when I see that definition of primarily loving women with the inclusion of many other genders but not all, idk... it just feels a lot more realistic to just accept lesbian as a bigger spectrum than that. I like other nonbinary people too, and lately I've been proce
hello! since i’m not a lesboy, i am not best equipped to elaborate it, but i’ll perform my best! i’ve included a tldr at the end if those assist you, but if you’re cool with reading longer chunks of text i recommend reading the whole post!
first of all, i responded to someone else here with some sources for lesboy history
but i’ll try to break what i do know, down into stuff that’s hopefully more understandable!
1. “Male lesbian” doesn’t mean “straight guy”. In order to know queerness, we need to detach man and lady from our associations with the binary. Man is not inherently binary or non-binary, and manhood can exist in as many ways as there are men on this world. The kind of guy you think of when you hear “man” is a binary cisgender man- but binary cis men are the ones who AREN’T included in the male lesbian definition.
2. There have always been neutrois lesbians. This is a true fact. However, people have come to ponder of non-binary to imply “you’re not a dude or a woman” but that’s not always the case! some people are genderfluid, some people are multigender, some p