graveling: (patient)
Angel [OC] ([personal profile] graveling) wrote in [personal profile] pumpkinhollow 2024-03-05 03:36 am (UTC)

Angel toes out the chair across from him at the table, to make it clear Leon is welcome. "So. Some people are cis, they're the gender they were assumed to be when they were born or created."

...yes, 'or created', that's relevant to a good number of people here. The robots, for starters.

"Some are trans, and they're not that gender. And some don't sit neatly in the binary of 'male' and 'female', right? Genderfluid are people who have multiple gender identity states they move between. Sometimes more dude, sometimes more lady, and it's not just a matter of dressing or presenting more one way or the other, it's an internal feeling thing that's shifting. It's different than someone who just isn't a dude or a lady but looks really good in a suit or a floral blouse or a vaguely femme pirate costume or covered in baby chickens that they're cooing at lovingly."

Yes, that example's very, very specific.

"And then me, I...don't...gender. Like, I get that everyone looking at me is seeing a man, but if man-ness is something you can actually feel, well, I'm not. But it's not a thing I make a big deal about a lot of the time, because there's bigger things about me for people to deal with. Like being a corpse."

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