Sexualities and Bodies by Smridhi Marwah

2024-09-18 00:29:28 UTC

Dysphoria and sex is a big thing! It can be especially hard for trans people so its important to talk about

Transnormativities

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what even is the "ideal" nonbinary/genderqueer body? we choose this label to get away from gender-normative ideals, so the fact that there's still expectations for how we're meant to look and behave is just... it's pretty weird, y'know?

2024-09-18 00:30:33 UTC

Endosex normativity is perversive in society, and it's important we normalise all different kinds of bodies and genetalia

Birth control

2024-09-18 00:31:29 UTC

Needing to be on birth control for one gender and not for the other. Having to potentially adjust your hormones and body or changing protection depending on the gender of your partner.

2024-09-18 00:31:40 UTC

Navigating cis norms is challenging

2024-09-18 00:32:09 UTC

reproducing standards for how nb and gq people should look and how even within our own communities, we expect us to look more androgynous but still be able bodied, white, and thin

butch/femme

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the sub-labels? bear?? twink???

Gold star hegemony

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baby?

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Decentering men

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body image + perception of self may change when they are pregnant and/or taking hormones

^^^

2024-09-18 00:35:14 UTC

EXACTLY you get it. also how there's kind of... no way for people to correctly assume our gender just because people will almost always assume that someone is cis or binary-trans

Drag queens?

2024-09-18 00:35:37 UTC

I couldn’t tell you were trans

2024-09-18 00:37:04 UTC

Is not the compliment you think it is

ezho638_2 — 2024-09-18 00:37:40 UTC

on the drag queen one

yes! drag queens are a way of playing with gender and expressing yourself but in media such as rupauls race, the quality of oyur drag is often related to how beautiful and feminine you are and how well your drag image conforms to the idea of "beautiful woman" while 'weirder' queens get critiqued

2024-09-18 00:37:58 UTC

^ yes!! reminds me of when ppl talk about passing as if that’s something every trans person wants

The normalisation of eating disorders in gay communities

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their body is seen as less desirable by lesbians because they have been touched by a man :((

^^

2024-09-18 00:39:25 UTC

linking this to the nonbinary/genderqueer column: how are you even meant to pass as a nonbinary-queer person?

ezho638_2 — 2024-09-18 00:39:33 UTC

also the inverse of "i could tell eyeroll" like okay? and that makes my identity less valid does it? it's not an achievement to clock someone

2024-09-18 00:41:41 UTC

They bodies are overly sexualised, they must be sleeping with everyone because they are attracted to both genders

2024-09-18 00:41:48 UTC

also thinking about how trans bodies are fetishised. like theres a whole porn category that caters to straight+cis (?) men