Femflux genderqueer Passover phone screen for @groovyfluxie

loud-and-queer:

ganseylike:

something i feel like queer ppl have been steadily forgetting over the last ten years or so is that “genderqueer” isn’t a specific nonbinary term, or even a synonym for nonbinary - it’s an umbrella term that encompasses nonbinariness and more. 

any flavour of trans (yes including “binary trans”)? you can call yourself genderqueer. fem, butch, androgynous, drag artist, crossdresser, or in any other way gnc? you can also use genderqueer. detrans but not in a radfem death cult kind of way? you too can be genderqueer. “i guess i’m basically cis but my other queer identity impacts my gender in a way that’s hard to put into words-” genderqueer!

it’s entirely acceptable and normal to be genderqueer but not nonbinary or genderqueer but not trans. it means literally nothing but “i’ve got a gender that’s queer” and it fucking rules we should use it so much more

This!  There was a period of time where this was well known and understood and then suddenly the genderqueer umbrella was closed up into a word synonymous with nonbinary. I’d just about given up fighting to get that umbrella back open, or at least remind people that it was once much more open.

✨Happy Pride Month! ✨

I made an art video for Pride Month about what it means to be non-binary & how to be an ALLY!

Designed to be shareable with clueless cishet people as a sort of 101. Feel free to share it anywhere you like

Also, would really appreciate follows/activity on the channel if you enjoyed this ❤❤❤

(he/him) just out here craving that ~sweet validation~

(he/him) Can we admire this phenomenal portrait my friend took of me because I’m honestly obsessed.

I’m bringing back crop tops for men (he/him)

nonbinarystats:

Hello!

It’s nearly time to run the annual NBGQ survey for 2017, and I need your help.

I’ve been using Google Forms for three years, because it lets me have as many responses and I can get for free, which seems to be 3,000+. However, Google Forms is quite basic. It has some limitations, and the way it presents your data means results can take a lot of time and energy to process. Collecting and processing pronouns, in particular, is extremely arduous!

It’s time to step it up a notch. I’d like to try using something more fit for purpose. SurveyMonkey will let me have over 1,000 respondents for £300. (The £50 extra in the title covers IndieGoGo fees.) This would mean a lot of really useful tools for me to process the results, and it means I can continue to use the survey software for more smaller surveys throughout the year.

Can you help me? The campaign ends on 3rd March 2017. Any amount however small helps cover this cost, which I just can’t afford on my own.

[TO THE INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN]

I’m excited to report that we’re at £91, which is almost 30% of our goal!

Also,HI SWITZERLAND, IRELAND AND THE US! <3

Hi United Kingdom, too, of course - but I’m in the UK, I can just shout it out of my window.

nonbinarystats:

Hello!

It’s nearly time to run the annual NBGQ survey for 2017, and I need your help.

I’ve been using Google Forms for three years, because it lets me have as many responses and I can get for free, which seems to be 3,000+. However, Google Forms is quite basic. It has some limitations, and the way it presents your data means results can take a lot of time and energy to process. Collecting and processing pronouns, in particular, is extremely arduous!

It’s time to step it up a notch. I’d like to try using something more fit for purpose. SurveyMonkey will let me have over 1,000 respondents for £300. (The £50 extra in the title covers IndieGoGo fees.) This would mean a lot of really useful tools for me to process the results, and it means I can continue to use the survey software for more smaller surveys throughout the year.

Can you help me? The campaign ends on 3rd March 2017. Any amount however small helps cover this cost, which I just can’t afford on my own.

[TO THE INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN]

We’re now at £61, which is 18% to the £330 we need to cover the SurveyMonkey fees! :) Thank you so much, every £1 and every reblog and every retweet is so helpful.

Hello!

It’s nearly time to run the annual NBGQ survey for 2017, and I need your help.

I’ve been using Google Forms for three years, because it lets me have as many responses as I can get for free, which seems to be 3,000+. However, Google Forms is quite basic. It has some limitations, and the way it presents your data means results can take a lot of time and energy to process. Collecting and processing pronouns, in particular, is extremely arduous!

It’s time to step it up a notch. I’d like to try using something more fit for purpose. SurveyMonkey will let me have over 1,000 respondents for £300. (The £50 extra in the title covers IndieGoGo fees.) This would mean a lot of really useful tools for me to process the results, and it means I can continue to use the survey software for more smaller surveys throughout the year.

Can you help me? The campaign ends on 3rd March 2017. Any amount however small helps cover this cost, which I just can’t afford on my own.

[TO THE INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN]

In my online wanderings I read an article that spoke at length about the writer’s conviction that Mx was so obviously a gender-exclusive title, and all the binary people using it were just mistaken or appropriating. (I disagree, while I’m on the subject.)

One of the supporting arguments was some information the author had been given by the UK Deed Poll Service, which started offering Mx on its list of titles about five years ago. They gave details about the number of people who’d changed their title to Mx and whether they had changed their first name and whether the name had been changed to something gender-neutral.

There are a number of flaws with this line of thinking. Titles are not legally authorised or binding at all in the UK, and one can use whichever title one feels is most appropriate at any given time. One may use a different title on different records, and it’s legal to use the title Mrs even if you’re a man or have never been married, for example. As such, deed polls are not required for you to change your title. Titles are not required on deed polls for name changes, and are frequently omitted. So deed polls are primarily documents for people who want to change their names. If a nonbinary person is happy with their first name and they only want to change their title, they will probably not acquire a deed poll document - and if they did they’d be unlikely to buy one, since you can make one at home for free legally.

However, the idea I’d like to examine today is the common assumption that a person’s gender can be guessed from their name. The article assumed that anyone ordering a deed poll with Mx and a gendered and unchanged first name was binary, and anyone changing their first name to a gender-neutral name with the title Mx was nonbinary. I was initially very skeptical about this claim, because after singular they the most popular pronouns for nonbinary people (consistently since I started running the survey) are he/him and she/her. I know several nonbinary people with “gendered” names, and I know that names are differently gendered in different cultures and languages. (My own middle name is masculine in some languages and feminine in others.)

So I ran three Twitter polls to get an idea of the gendering of names, as well as how many nonbinary people have changed or will change their names.

The first two, I wanted to compare the names of binaryandnonbinarypeople:

It’s clear that binary people are far more likely to have a gendered name. And yes, nonbinary people are 5 times more likely to have a gender-neutral name. However, most nonbinary people have a binary gendered name. Almost half. It’s clear that you can’t guess someone’s gender based on their name.

And here, we see that about 1 in 5 nonbinary people are keeping the names they were given by their parents at birth. This isn’t accounted for by those 1 in 5 having been given gender-neutral names at birth. Along those lines, since 50% of nonbinary people surveyed have changed their name and only 38% have gender-neutral names, that leaves a respectable number of nonbinary people who changed their name to something binary-gendered.

A couple of afterthoughts. One nonbinary person told me that their gender identity clinic had pressured them to change their name to something more gender-ambiguous in order to access transition, which is an awful thing for someone who likes their first name but still needs medical treatment for gender dysphoria. I think it’s fair to say that a change of name is not proof of someone needing medical treatment. And several people told me about names that are technically or historically gender-neutral, but usually perceived as gendered, such as Marion or Vivian.

In summary, it’s clear that there is a trend here - nonbinary people are more likely to have gender-neutral names, and 69% of nonbinary people have changed or will change their name. However, plenty of nonbinary people will never change their name, and most of those people will probably have binary-gendered first names. And many nonbinary people change their names to something binary.

In the past few days I ran three polls about Mx.

First I got to wondering about the tussle over Mx. There’s two camps:

• People (like me!) who feel that Mx should be inclusive (anyone can use it regardless of gender), as it was originally intended. 
  
• People who feel that since the binary folks have titles that express their gender, nonbinary folks should be able to have one too - and it should be Mx, since that’s the only title functionally available to most nonbinary people right now.
  

So naturally, let’s do a Twitter poll. Here’s the tweet, and here are the results for that one:

The majority, a little over three quarters of participants, felt that Mx was an inclusive title.

I got curious about how that compared to which people would like for themselves, leaving out the title Mx altogether (tweet):

Fewer participants, but the trend looks like people feel Mx is inclusive, even when they would rather use an exclusively nonbinary title for themselves.

And then I wanted to find out how those figures on people’s ideal titles compared to what people think the title situation should be generally (tweet):

Even though only about 1 in 5 nonbinary people want an exclusively nonbinary title, over half feel that there should be one - even though most of those 56% wouldn’t use it for themselves.

TL;DR: Our followers mostly feel that Mx is inclusive, and most prefer an inclusive title - but plenty support the idea of an exclusively nonbinary title for the people who do want one.

A day or two I ran a few 24-hour Twitter polls on age. Two asking for people’s ages, and one asking how they felt about me asking for age in the next annual survey.

First let’s directly compare the ages of nonbinaryandgenderqueer people to see how much overlap that is. I chose nonbinary and genderqueer because they’re the two more popular umbrella terms.

Genderqueer folks are more likely to be older and younger, and nonbinary people are more likely to fit into the 18-40 range.

I’d also like to compare to data on the ages of Twitter users in general, just so we can mentally adjust for that bias - but there’s not much reliable out there, because Twitter doesn’t require your age or date of birth. Some followers found a few relevant pages for me, but in the end the most reliable data I could find that included people under 18 was comScore, who included 15-24 year olds. Pew Research Center had more recent data, but it was less complete. I put that data into two comparable graphs:

I’ll be the first to admit that I have no idea how reliable this data is. But that’s kind of okay, because the Twitter polls I run are probably not reliable either, right? *winces*

These two sources seem to roughly agree that most users are in their 20s, and people are less likely to use Twitter as age increases.

The results of our Twitter polls match this very closely. The only thing we can really guess from these graphs is that the proportion of over-40s who are genderqueer and/or nonbinary and use Twitter is lower than the proportion of over-40s on Twitter. We can’t make any guesses about how genderqueer and/or nonbinary folks compare to the average population of the world, or even the Western world.

However, since the age trends of nonbinary and/or genderqueer folk does overall match the age trend of Twitter users, it might be fair to guess that the proportion of people who’re nonbinary and/or genderqueer is roughly the same over all age groups. But that is highly dubious.

~

In summary, there’s not a lot we can draw from this. But it was interesting and fun. And I’ll probably be including an age question in the next annual survey, because…

This probably means I’ll need to collect more specific information about country of residence too, since age demographics vary so much by location. No more “UK or not UK” question!

UK nonbinary folks who were or are out to and seeking treatment from the NHS, are you getting the treatments you need?

Non-UK nonbinary folks who were or are out to and seeking treatment from your doctor(s), are you getting the treatments you need?

This list is from the spreadsheet for the 2016 worldwide results, where there were 3055 useable responses, and 179 unique identity words or phrases entered.

Most commonly entered at the top, with number of times entered and percentage in brackets.

• Nonbinary (1975, 65%)
• Genderqueer (1243, 41%)
• Trans (1063, 35%)
• Agender (944, 31%)
• Transgender (943, 31%)
• Fluid gender/genderfluid (942, 31%)
• Enby (477, 16%)
• Demigender (452, 15%)
• Transmasculine (434, 14%)
• Neutral (420, 14%)
• Questioning or unknown (397, 13%)
• Androgyne (380, 12%)
• Woman (or girl if you are younger) (363, 12%)
• Trans* (272, 9%)
• None/I do not describe my gender (259, 8%)
• Man (or boy if you are younger) (232, 8%)
• Neutrois (207, 7%)
• Transfeminine (200, 7%)
• Bigender (123, 4%)
• Third gender (84, 3%)
• Intergender (47, 2%)
• Cisgender (26, 1%)
• Genderflux (25, 1%)
• genderless (17, 1%)
• Femme (14, 0%, so everything below here is 0%)
• maverique (12)
• gendervoid, voidgender, void (8)
• gender non-conforming (8)
• trigender (7)
• two-spirit (7)
• Polygender (7)
• Agenderflux (6)
• transfeminine (6)
• Queer (6)
• Butch (5)
• gendervague (5)
• aporagender (5)
• Transsexual (5)
• gender variant (4)
• human/person (4)
• genderfuck(ed) (4)
• apogender (4)
• Male (4)
• boy (adult) (4)
• femme nb, nb femme, etc. (3)
• greygender (3)
• pangender (3)
• masculine of centre (3)
• Mixed gender (2)
• Demiagender (2)
• non-gendered (2)
• genderpunk (2)
• boi (2)
• Fluid agender/agenderfluid (2)
• Female (2)
• genderweird (2)
• androgynous (specifically not androgyne) (2)
• genderful (2)
• Transwoman (2)
• confused (2)
• alexigender (2)
• geek (2)
• Transman (1)
• null / no gender (1)
• Other (1)
• guy (1)
• intersex(ed) (1)
• FTM/female to male (1)
• post-gender (1)
• aliagender (1)
• multi-gender(ed) (1)
• fairy or faery (1)
• transfemale (1)
• videgender (1)
• tomboy (1)
• Mutogender (1)
• plural (1)
• ilyagender (1)
• ambigender (1)
• librafeminine (1)
• witch (1)
• FTMTX (1)
• genderfree (1)
• hybrid (1)
• trans boi (1)
• androgynous woman (1)
• fluid centering just androgynous of female (1)
• androgynous genderqueer transwoman (1)
• nonbinary guy (1)
• culturally female (1)
• voidboy (1)
• feminine genderflux (1)
• fluidflux (1)
• libramasculine (1)
• nonbinary, but woman aligned (1)
• woman-aligned (1)
• blank (1)
• bakla (1)
• ladyboy (1)
• a Literal Mess (1)
• grey-agender boy (1)
• Star Trek extra (1)
• transqueer (1)
• nonbinary boy (1)
• neuter (1)
• egogender (1)
• nondual (1)
• nerd (1)
• boyflux (1)
• demifluid (1)
• kid (1)
• not cisgender (1)
• rejects gender (1)
• demifemme (1)
• androfem (1)
• virgender (1)
• eldrigender (1)
• nb (1)
• female fiction (1)
• herm (1)
• paragender (1)
• nonbinary gendermeh (1)
• magiboy (1)
• genderchill (1)
• pretty boy (1)
• dandy (1)
• bordergender (1)
• demimasculine (1)
• gender related to “girl” (1)
• well, ‘woman’ seems simplest, let’s just go with that (1)
• winkte (two spirit) (1)
• tunte (german) (1)
• x-jender (1)
• nonhuman (1)
• transgender androgyne (1)
• ambi-binary (1)
• angenital (1)
• dual gender (1)
• alien (1)
• gender non-compliant (1)
• autistic (1)
• gender-abolitionist (1)
• of trans experience (1)
• androgyne of centre (1)
• juxera neutroisflux (1)
• differently gendered (1)
• bear (1)
• demigal (1)
• queer trans person of colour (qtpoc) (1)
• stargender (1)
• mahu (1)
• non-male (1)
• afraid (1)
• butch/femme/mix (1)
• not defined (1)
• all genders (1)
• i caucus with women (1)
• [angry profanity] (1)
• [blank panic] (1)
• transgender female (1)
• cassgender (1)
• somewhat feminine most of the time (1)
• girlfing (1)
• None Of Your Business (1)
• gender disobedient (1)
• divigender (1)
• ladydude (1)
• transfemme (1)
• girl aligned (1)
• nth gender (1)
• monstrous (1)
• nonbinary girl (1)
• demiflux (1)
• femme boy (1)
• autisgender (1)
• traumagender (1)
• faegender (1)
• xenogender (1)
• queer who don’t care (1)

Genderqueer is an umbrella term with a similar meaning to non-binary. It can be used to describe any gender identities other than man and woman, thus outside of the gender binary. Genderqueer identities can include one or more of the following:

• Both man and woman.
  
• Neither man nor woman (genderless, agender, Neutrois).
  
• Moving between genders (gender fluid).
  
• Third gender or other-gender.
  
• Those who do not or cannot place a name to their gender.
  
• Having an overlap of, or blurred lines between, gender identity and sexual orientation.
  

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Term coined by: Unknown

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Designed by: Marilyn Roxie

Color meanings: 

Lavender (#b57edc): The mixture of blue and pink (traditional colors associated with men and women, present on the transgender pride flag) as lavender is meant to represent androgynes and androgyny. Also represents the “queer” in genderqueer, as lavender is a color that has long been associated with “queerness”, including gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities.

White (#ffffff): Meant to represent agender identity, congruent with the gender neutral white on the transgender pride flag.

Dark chartreuse green (#4A8123): The inverse of lavender; meant to represent those whose identities which are defined outside of and without reference to the binary. Formerly (#498022), the color is now the true inverse of lavender (#b57edc). 

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Designed by: Unknown

Color meanings: Unknown, likely pink/blue for feminine/masculine, purple for androgyne, yellow for nonbinary, orange for ???

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Designed by: solorebel

Color meanings: 

Purple for people who are a mix of male and female

Green for people who identify as neither male nor female

Blue for people who are transmasculine, so feel more male than female, but are not identifying as men

White for neutrois/agender/people completely outside the binary

Pink for transfeminine, people who feel more female than male, but are not identifying as women

Grey (up for debate) for genderfluids. I was thinking of orange, but orange didn’t work, and I don’t know what color other than blue signifies fluency. perhaps a rainbow, but a rainbow would be weird to have on a stripe….

Full pride gallery HERE! FAQ and “dictionary” of genders, orientations, and other related terms HERE. Send any questions to Ask-Pride-Color-Schemes!

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