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Is there a definite characteristic that can tell you that you are an androgyne?

Started by je, June 15, 2008, 05:51:39 AM

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Candlelight

Je, thank you for your post, and I thank everyone else for their response.  I am new here, HI!  And I have been trying to figure out who I am as well.  I think after reading this thread and some others, I see who I am. I am inbetween, I am an Adrogyne, I am Bigendered.  I am all, and am none.

And I think I feel a whole lot better in understanding that now.

I am so happy to have found this place.  I have a friend, Jade, who is transexual, but she doesnt know what to do.  I will be bringing her as well.

Good morning!
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je

Hello! :D

You are welcome Candlelight! Furthermore welcome to this forum!

My journey is taking some turns at the moment. Whether I am androgyne or not, I don't believe I'm wrong in trying to find my place or in not knowing exactly what I am at the moment.



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Shana A

Quote from: Candlelight on June 24, 2008, 08:16:46 AM
Je, thank you for your post, and I thank everyone else for their response.  I am new here, HI!  And I have been trying to figure out who I am as well.  I think after reading this thread and some others, I see who I am. I am inbetween, I am an Adrogyne, I am Bigendered.  I am all, and am none.

And I think I feel a whole lot better in understanding that now.

Hi Candlelight, and welcome to Susan's. Glad you've found our androgyne corner. I am also androgyne, in between or neither of the binary genders...

Z
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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Elly_Murk

I'm new here too! I'm used to the lack of single defining characteristics because I'm knee-deep in giftedness, which is another blurry concept with some really complicated biological basis. My best friend came out as FTM to me the other day, which is why I'm here, but the androgyne thing looked interesting... my main response is, "Aren't most people like that?" as in non-binary in gender, but that may be because, being exceptionally/profoundly gifted with a history of related mental illness, not to mention bisexual, I tend to get along with the misfits. (Plus, I've read in a few places that the gifted are more androgynous than the regular population...)

I took about half of the first test someone (riven?) posted before stopping in frustration because of its simplistic evaluation of mainly right brain/left brain strengths. While those things are related to gender, they're hardly the determining factor, and I wouldn't say every woman with a style of thinking that's more common among males has to forfeit her femininity, or vice versa. Err, well, really I quit because they wanted me to measure my hands and I (a) don't have a ruler and (b) have a connective tissue disorder that messes with those proportions anyway.

I've used the term bigendered to describe myself even though I hadn't heard the term. Over the past year or two (I just graduated high school last month) I struggled with not seeing males as superior to females (I'm in a female body--I bet I'd do fine in a male one, too, but it doesn't matter to me) and I guess masculinity still seems a little bit more "comfortable" to me in general, but it's a marginal difference. I've also described my attitude as anti-gender because I don't see any real reason to pay special attention to gender's polarities, and all the teeny tiny prejudices, jokes, baffled looks, etc that get applied to steps taken against the stereotypes are so damaging, and if they didn't exist, there'd be no friction preventing transsexuals from sliding over to their preferred point in the gender space.
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Eva Marie

Quote from: Elly_Murk on June 25, 2008, 10:15:16 AM
I took about half of the first test someone (riven?) posted before stopping in frustration because of its simplistic evaluation of mainly right brain/left brain strengths. While those things are related to gender, they're hardly the determining factor, and I wouldn't say every woman with a style of thinking that's more common among males has to forfeit her femininity, or vice versa. Err, well, really I quit because they wanted me to measure my hands and I (a) don't have a ruler and (b) have a connective tissue disorder that messes with those proportions anyway.

Yeah, it was me  :P

The finger length deal - there is some thought that the absence/presence of testosterone in the womb has an effect on the length of fingers, thus the finger length test. always amanda has posted up some threads about this if you are interested; do a search.
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