Friday, 01 October 2010
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Bi-Gendered?
Recently I have been pondering whether I may be safer to identify as bi-gendered. Bi-gendered is a subset of transgendered people. Wikipedia has this to say on the subject: "While an androgynous person retains the same gender-typed behavior across situations, the bi-gendered person consciously or unconsciously changes their gender-role behavior from primarily masculine to primarily feminine, or vice versa."
To the best of my understanding a bi-gendered person would be someone who identifies as a little of both genders. Or that enjoys switching between being male and female gender presentation.
As I have reflected on this, I definitely do NOT think I am bi-gendered. I am female. I identify too strongly as female. Might I be a little bit of a tomboy? Yes. But deep in my identity I simply know I am female. My actions may appear bi-gendered, but that is mostly because of current life situations. Most of my friends that know me well know that I am most definitely female identified.
But, the idea of bi-gendered(ness), or that someone could be both male and female, is truly interesting, and really speaks a lot about gender as a socially defined category as well. It really reminds me of a great book I read called Gender Outlaw. A book I would highly recommend to others. In a sense I can very much identify with falling outside of traditional ideas of gender overall, even though I strongly identify as female.
How do you understand gender and your personal gender identity?
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very curious thing to think about.
Sometimes I like acting boyish, but then I have days where I want to be really girly, I think I'm just confused. :/
My ex was queergendered.
Sometimes she felt feminine.
Sometimes she felt masculine.
Sometimes she felt neither.
That's the same as bi-gendered, right?
Somehow, I always understood.
I'm a girl for sure. I know who I am..=) I know how I feel too..
Who's to say what girly or manly behavior is, anyway? Some may think it's not manly to cry, others may not agree. Some may say it's girly to groom for over an hour, but I know plenty of guys who take just as long as I do to get ready; sometimes even longer.
A pox on gender roles altogether! Nobody SOLELY exhibits their sex's given roles every single day of their lives. If that were the case, then we'd all be "bi-gendered." I think this mindset needs to be done away with.
We make genders whatever we make of them. I'm tired of all these labels; rubbish.
huh I never thought of it that way.
I have ever thought bout what my gender is and what it means to me. I haven't made a good conclusion however.
Bi-gender makes me think of intersex individuals, except I think there would be a difference. An individual is intersex if they believe that they are wholly neither male nor female - I've known people like this, and they are completely androgynous (generally). Bi-gendered would be an individual who feels male some times and female other times, or someone who feels like both.
If I may say as a transgendered person, I don't quite understand either of them. :D
I identify as transgender, male only to the extent that I want to live in society in a male body. (At least, this is how I feel right now; I realize this could change.) I identify as FTM only as a description of my narrative- that I lived nineteen years as female and have now lived two as male and will continue to live as male; and as a perhaps eventual description of my sex, which will move from female to male more and more the longer I am on T (if I take T). I do not gender any of my desires, wants, or behaviors. I think our concepts of "masculinity" and "femininity" are outdated. Male and masculine, female and feminine are unnecessary pairings - they do not need to go together. Every day I present the same way, with the same outward presentation, but change my mannerisms, speech patterns, behaviors.... This is the product of being a social being, not a trans person; we all do it. I identify as gender fluid within the trans umbrella, but not bi-gender. There is no binary, just wonderfully beautiful, variant ways to experience our bodies and our world. :)
@the_godless_platypus@xanga - Intersex is a description of biological sex, not gender category; an intersex condition is where an individual doesn't have traditionally male or traditionally female genitalia (and/or reproductive capability). Gender identity is important to an individual with an intersex condition, but it's not what defines the condition. isna.org
@xthread@xanga - Yeah, I don't know anymore. Different people and different places define things differently. o_o
I think that someone I know could be bi-gendered. They're female, but sometimes feel as though they should be male, yet also feels female. She's a tomboy. She's unsure of her sexuality as well, because she has liked boys in the past, but also likes girls. It must be very confusing :(. I still love her no matter who she is or decides to be.
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