I'm MTA or a MAAB or male bodied non-binary. I'm a soul dragging around a male corpse.
I'm not a part of the binary world of posers. I do associate with people who are binary.
Being binary is really a much smaller club than most people recognize.
There are many of them that prefer to be thought of as binary, just to be a part of the club.
In our lifetimes and a hundred or more years ago, it wasn't as much of a measure of ones self as it is advertised.
Sure, there are those tasks in life that generally follow a pattern of either hunter or gatherer.
They have been categorized and placed into one side or the other of the binary 'clubs' of male and female.
They do seem to enjoy playing a game of misunderstanding each other. I find it kind of funny and odd.
The more they play the game, the more serious of players they seem to be. To the point of exclusion of others.
That be most of the world. Unfortunately, it is a game that most people play, even though they really don't belong.
To not be a player or at least be a fan of the game, is to be looked down on by those involved in it.
That would be us here. A large part of this forum overall is a part of that binary, but they in general include us in here.
They have the knowledge of us that most of society, the game players, don't have.
They are for the most part fans of the game, although their goal seems to be able to achieve player status.
Whether they actually play is another thing in itself. It's up to them and either way, it's just fine.
The way society has set itself up is to see only a binary world, because that's how it is presented from the time you are born.
You know how much everything it seems, is about either side of the binary spectrum.
The has been in the last few years, a growth among us that are finally claiming our own distinctions of non-binary.
This is still in it's first few stages of acceptance by society as a legitimate gender in itself, despite the enormous variations.
Right here is probably your best bet on being able to find information about us. There's a lot of it.
I personally divide gender into two groups, binaries and non-binaries. There is a distinction.
A major portion of people consider us to be somewhere in between the two sides of the binaries.
This couldn't be any farther from the truth. We are a separate group. Explains a lot of the confusion that most people have.
The separation allows us to not have to answer those questions of male and female that are thrown our way.
Those questions are binary in nature and tend to need a binary in nature answer. There isn't one.
Stop defining yourself by their standards and understand that they have a hard time understanding us, as well.
There has been lately a larger number of FAAB or FTA or female bodied non-binaries posting here.
A trend, maybe. Maybe not. It is overall about equal if you want to look at it that way. But you shouldn't.
That's the binary creeping in. It doesn't matter what your body is. It just doesn't.
What matters is that you recognize that you're not really a part of the binary gender.
You just live in a world that uses it as a standard. Majority rules being what it is.
And don't forget bigots. They seem to be everywhere, some even group up and form their own little clubs and standards.
Ignore their ignorance, it's not their fault that the wiring in their brains is so screwed up.
Not everyone has the ability to see beyond themselves. Nature is cruel to them. They have a disorder.
It's called gender dysphoria. They are totally confused and apparently some are even scared of us.
The only cure is to find acceptance that they are not the only people who live on this planet.
The binary version is that we have this dysphoria. We don't, we just suffer from the effects that their disorder has on us.
They used to refer to it as a disorder, as in psychiatric. They seemed to have changed it to just dysphoria. Whoopee.
They still think it is us who have this.
Stop thinking in terms of binary.
You'll feel better about yourself.
You'll feel better about the world around you.
You'll start to see how most people don't really fit in the binary gender.
But if that is what they want, let them.
They know somewhere in the back of their minds that they have characteristics of both sides of the binary gender.
Some of them will eventually figure it out if it becomes an issue for them. Others will hide it from even themselves.
Genderphobia. Oh, my god,...what will the other binaries think if I don't play by the rules of sides.
Some get to the point of understanding that there has to be more to this.
And here you are. Welcome to the other gender, the non-binaries.
You can call yourself what ever you want.
Androgyn and genderqueer are pretty popular, but are just a couple of many terms.
Do yourself a favor and try not to categorize yourself and others.
Just finding yourself is enough, you don't really have to name it.
There's too many names or terms out there to really be useful, other than as a description.
There is a lot of information here if you look around in the Androgyne section here.
There is a lot of information in other areas as well, but just keep in mind that it can be binary in nature.
Read through old topic, new topics, just go exploring. Or start a new topic. Like this one.
Got questions? Ask. Got information? It would be nice to share, but isn't required.
Got an opinion? It's up to you what you do with it. Most of us share and discuss to one degree or another.
Get used to the idea that you may belong to this gender or club as you put it.
We call the clubhouse the Forest or Unicorn Forest.
Kinda weird, but tradition allows us to do this. Besides, it's fun for the most part.
It comes in handy for analogies and such. Like the path one.
There are many winding paths that can take you to places you may never have been to before.
Most of them intersect at least once, most do that a lot.
You'll usually find people hanging around at some of them discussing stuff.
That would be the topics.
Explore, have fun, if you get lost, just ask for directions.
There are some of us who have been here for a long time and can give you advice or direction if you want.
We might not be always available.
But we do check in and keep an eye out for those who may feel lost, even here.
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