thedeltaquadrant | (no subject)

i keep seeing people talk about how people avoid gendering binary trans people so they don't have to acknowledge their genders, but i hardly ever see it talked about when it happens to nonbinary people.nonbinary people often get degendered too, by the way, even by other trans people. a lot of people just seem to think it's impossible because most of us use they/them pronouns. but if we keep having both cis and trans people only ever calling specific nonbinary people "a trans person" but barely acknowledging their nonbinaryhood, that's the same violence that's done to binary trans people. yes, most of us use they/them pronouns and non-gendered language like "person", but that literally means that "nonbinary" or another specific label someone uses is pretty much the main way to acknowledge our genders, and yet so many people avoid the term "nonbinary" altogether. it's especially weird coming from other trans people who have no problem saying "trans man" or "trans woman", but will call a nonbinary person "trans person" rather than acknowledging their nonbinaryhood.

my gender is not trans. my gender is nonbinary or more specifically maverique. nonbinary is not a dirty word, and "trans" is not a substitute for my actual gender.

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