Reply to Parent input on trans name

Forum Index » LGBTQIA+ Issues and Relationship Discussion

Reply to "Parent input on trans name"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Non binary and trans are not the same thing. Is there a reason you are conflating them, OP?[/quote]

Actually,[b] many NB individuals consider themselves to be part of the trans community[/b] so OP isn’t wrong.

My NB (now adult) child had long gone by a gender neutral nickname derived from their birth name.  So at 17 I facilitated a legal name change so that DC could get everything switched over the summer after graduation and start college with that name, rather than have to change things later.  There were definitely names being considered that made me shudder and I’m really glad DC decided on this in the end, but since it wasn’t my name I kept my mouth shut unless asked or there was a valid concern DC should consider (sharing a name with a convicted felon on the no fly list would have fallen into that category for me so I would at least have mentioned it).[/quote]

Nonbinary people are absolutely part of the trans community. Some nonbinary people do not feel "trans enough" to call themselves trans while others do. Some nonbinary people are not on cross sex hormones while others are. Binary trans people will accept a nonbinary person as transgender if that person identifies with that term. A little more in the weeds, most of the nonbinary people I know that don't feel trans enough and just use nonbinary do so because [b]they aren't on hormones[/b]. But if they start identifying with the label transgender then I would absolutely use that term for them and consider them as trans. A nonbinary person isn't (definitionally) a binary trans man or trans woman obviously but that's it. You can't be simultaneously binary and nonbinary but you can be nonbinary and transgender.

[img]https://www.genderkitten.com/WS4/ah3files2/Original%20Umbrella_net.jpg[/img][/quote]

Interesting. Two of my family members who are NB do take hormones. 
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics