I feel like I have no place as a non binary person. Mainstream spaces are full of tucutes, but 4tran adjacent spaces seem to get more and more weird like that. Am I still welcome here? Is my dysphoria enough or are we already actual anti-enby transmedicalists now?
This is the post btw: https://www.reddit.com/r/4tran4/comments/1sczen7/comment/oehh2ss/
There is always a secret third thing. Stereotypes and social expectations exist for people who lack sex characteristics, and there is a phenotype that exists for someone who never experiences puberty.
The mood swings and hot flashes caused by having no sex hormones in your body are withdrawal symptoms that go away over time. Is it that difficult to imagine that, with a set of social expectations, neurochemistry, and physical phenotype, your brain can naturally fit it?
when 99% of the population encounters someone who lacks sex charictaristics/actually passes as neither male or female. those people dont think “that person isnt a man or a woman” they’ll use context clues to determine if that [erson is a man or a woman. or assume woman since 99% of “androgynous” people just look like women.
there are no social expectations for a third sex because there are only two sexes, but also because most of modern society is built on the caveman logic of “men strong work” “women stay home make babies”.
A reasonable assumption, but wrong. People rarely talk about it, but there is in fact a set of social expectations for people who are visibly neither. Lingering since the days where eunuchs weren’t uncommon.
It takes mental effort to deny the existence of a third category and consistently push people into one or the other, even if that third category is just ‘uncertain’. You can’t expect normies to ever expend mental effort on anything.
there’s just not though. unless those social expectations are that of women. it takes mental effort for normies to come up with a new third sex to put those people in rather than the two they have exclusively interacted with.