you can be trans, but there are 2 genders

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You can go form one to the other-that i very much believe in. i myself am questioning my gender. but there are only 2 people. stop being a bunch of sjw's and get over yourselves. I feel the need to post this as it irritates me seeing all these 'non binary' people la dee da-ing about.

Until you can disconnect gender from sex, ie, what is between your ears may or may not agree with what is between your legs, you will not grasp non-binary. Furthermore, what is between your ears resides on an extensive scale rather than being opposites sides of a coin.

Reading this post gave me diarrhea.

I also find non-binary genders hard to grasp. I'm pretty sure I have gender dysphoria. My male body is almost a constant source of distress, and I think having a female body would make me happy and allow me to get on with my life. But it's hard to understand how someone can have such a precise understanding of where their gender lies on the spectrum. I can't really understand trying to fine tune it so that you're somewhere in the middle. I mean, if you're a natal male you have the choice of either taking estrogen/spiro, or leaving your natural hormones intact. That's a binary choice. It's not possible to partially transition, because you can only choose either male or female physiology.

To be honest, the skeptical part of me has trouble with the entire concept of binary transgenderism as well. I have huge doubts that maybe it's just extreme vanity or something that's causing me to feel this way.

But I think if someone wants to identify as non-binary and requests they/them pronouns, people should respect that. It doesn't hurt anyone, so there's really no problem.

Heh, I had to google what "sjw" meant. Why is that insulting? I would have thought social justice was a good thing...

So obviously you consider the only difference between men and women is their genitalia? Their plumbing if you will?

If you read the book Brain Sex by Anne Moir and David Jessel (available at Amazon), they explain how ones brain is influenced by the levels of hormones available during fetal development such that most people mature with brains that agree with their genitalia. However, a small percentage but still a significant number of individuals find themselves with brains (mental outlook, personalities, gender identification, or whatever) that do not agree with their genitals. I use the phrase "do not agree" because their brain may be fairly close to what the genitalia indicate, it may be farther away, or it may be totally to the other end of the continuum, depending on the level of hormones (mostly testosterone) present during their fetal development. And btw, brain development and genital development happen at different times while the fetus is in the womb so varying levels of hormones is to be expected.

Hopefully this sheds some new light on this lack of understanding.

Gender has to be rooted in biology, even if not the same as biological sex. It's really more of an expression of sex. So one can Trans and identify as the opposite sex. But there are only two sexes, and thus, only two genders.

Saying gender isn't rooted in biology makes the term ultimately meaningless. That's why tumblites come up with all sorts of made up genders: non-binary, agender, trigender, etc.

In fact, prior to the work of John Money, gender was largely a linguistic term. Many languages have gendered nouns and the like. John Money became famous (or infamous) with the David Reimer case. Reimer lost his penis in a botched circumcision as a baby, so Money was brought in. Money decided that David would be raised as a girl.

The case ended in disaster, and Money's idea of a blank slate gender was seemingly discredited. Reimer grew up to live as a man before committing suicide.

Gender, though not the same as biological sex, is rooted in biology. Gender is determined by biology, not social constructions. It's important not the confuse gender itself with gender roles. Some gender roles are socially constructed (methods of dress, makeup, etc), but many of them (like child-rearing) are largely determined by biology.

Completely divorcing gender from sex is pointless at best and harmful at worst. I lean towards the latter. That is why we see all these non-binary transtrenders out there who probably don't even have real dysphoria.

A few of my good friends are enbies, as well as one of my favorite musicians (Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle). I don't really get it, but I treat them with the same respect that I expect from others.

I identify as "agendered."

I am not "screwed-up."