Personally Ill let whoever claim the trans flag for whatever they are. I myself will just use the word woman.........

I'm not trans enough! I stopped going to a local support group because of the attitude of some people there. I ride a Harley, like punk & metal, wear jeans, no make up. Never wear heels, skirts or dresses.

While presenting pretty much non-binary, emotionally and as identity I absolutely consider myself in the binary and I certainly don't look down on anybody who is non-binary. I have to say I've experienced a fair amount of shade from non-binary people who judge me and others for identifying in the binary; that's their problem.

Quote from: Alaskan Danielle on January 22, 2019, 06:25:32 PM
@mako9802
I agree with you completely. 
Why can't we ALL ...  ALL OF US in the transgender camp just get along, we are all in this together and we should be giving each other encouragement and support.   We all have our own unique journeys to navigate, with different successes and different difficulties with relationships, employment, acceptance and non-acceptance, with our HRT progress, and with our unique body change timelines.

The infighting just causes factions in our overall group.... not productive at all.

Thank you for sharing your insightful thoughts and for starting and posting this thread.
Hugs and well wishes,
Danielle

@Alaskan Danielle


Yes, we should all be on the "same team."

Chrissy

I am pan-sexual and I do not understand why people discriminate against others. Are those people angry because they can't have sex with someone? That is the only time binary or non-binary becomes an issue to me. I've been told that if I do not have sex with someone we can't be friends. Needless to say I am not friends with those people.

QuoteLive and Let Live.

I really don't care what others think about me, I know who I am, and that is all that matters to me.  I think that I am binary, but who knows anyway?  I know that I am pretty gender fluid, and can be the gender I want to be at a given time. 
And I really don't see myself as being trans, because I was born mostly female (biologically), but was equipped with male parts (no idea why), I am currently in the process of reclaiming my rightful body.  And this kind of fits into the trans environment, but it is up to me to determine, how much trans I am. 

It is stupid anyway, to put a label on it.  trans means one is moving from one condition to another, and duing hat proces one is alway on one point of the sale of trans. 
Putting a value to this gliding point, is the same as if one would tell a cis woman in her early pregnancy that she is not pregnant enough, compared with a woman in her late term of a pregnancy.  One can be either pregnant or not, the same is with trans, one is either trans, or is cis.  No value can be attached to either condition!