Gender is a part of everyone's lives even if they identify as agender. (Agender means that they place themselves outside of the gender spectrum. Someone who is agender may use the pronouns ”they” or ”xhe.”) Even though one may not realize it, it affects how people treat you. Post-transition transmen have noticed that they experience male privilege, even with people who knew them pre-transition. Women are often victims of sexism even without realizing it, and many believe that the sexist behaviors of the past have been erased from our everyday lives. Some see the sexism they experience as being an advantage, but it is often just leftover old fashioned beliefs that reinforce the idea that women are helpless without men. The rules society makes about gender are often sexist and hetero-normative. For example, boys are not “allowed” to like pink things because those are for girls. Femininity and masculinity are often portrayed as two very different things that should never overlap, but in reality many people prefer things that aren’t “for” their gender. Gender can be ambiguous and fluid in the same way sexuality can be. Some people don’t experience changes in their identity throughout their lives and are content to live as the gender and sexuality they were expected by society to be. There’s nothing wrong with them just like there’s nothing wrong with everyone else. Some people online seem to think that cisgendered heterosexuals are all the enemy of the lgbtqia+ community, but there are many straight allies out there who are doing their best to better the world.
Somebody once told me that being genderqueer was biologically impossible and when I reminded him of intersex people, he chose to ignore me by spewing more insults. I think about that a lot.
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