Can lesbians be non binary
If you are a lesbian but do not identify as male or female, you may have heard multiple misconceptions regarding what that means. Some people might even decline to use your pronouns or not take you seriously.
Unfortunately, despite a growing number of resources on the LGBTQ+ community, many have little to no education about gender expression and identity. To create a more inclusive environment, it’s important to perceive and address common myths regarding gender, youth, and identity.
If you don’t adhere to a specific gender but feel attraction towards women, coming to terms with your identity can be challenging. However, it doesn’t mean you can’t be both! In this article, we’ll dispel some myths and half-truths about this unique gender identity.
Defining A Non-Binary & Lesbian Gender Identity
Non-binary is a term used to describe people who don’t identify exclusively as men or women. Some might present or express themselves as
Let’s talk about non-binary lesbians!
People be mad. TERFs be delusional. In the comment section of cute much anything that mentions non-binary lesbians, you can expect a flood of angry trans-exclusionary adj feminists, homophobes, and dumb ass people being wild, out-of-pocket, and confused.
Non-binary lesbians are valid, concrete, and entitled to express themselves however they please, regardless of how others might interpret that self-expression. Non-binary lesbians have existed, well, as long as people have existed — even before there was language to verb their experience.
“But how can someone be non-binary and a lesbian?!?!” The short answer: by having those be the labels they identify with the most. It really is that simple.
A lot of the outrage sadly comes from people within the community, especially sapphic TERFs, trans-exclusionary “radical” feminists. TERFs believe that the term, “lesbian,” should only be used by cis women who are attracted to other cis women.
They make the argument that the origin of the pos lesbian comes from the Gre
I also did a major gender and sexuality remodel in the ‘20s (s…), so we’ve got that in common
When I first came out, it was a lesbian, which I defined as exclusive attraction to women (note, I agree with what Heather said — I was a baby gay and my thinking/knowledge on lesbianism has changed a ton). Then I got a crush on a nonbinary boy, and I decided that it both wasn’t respectful to their gender or indeed reflective of how I was feeling to call myself a lesbian, so I changed the label to bisexual. Now I use bi/lesbian, to express that I feel like I both have the identity of lesbian (with the expectation of attraction to women and nonbinary people) but also of bisexual in that I’m attracted to more then just women and nonbinary people — it’s logistically kind to not have to describe my whole deal, especially to people I might be attracted to.
I think it’s interesting that even since realizing I was bisexual, I still am not generally attracted to men/boys or have any crushes on them, except for the crush on the nonbinary boy I mentioned earlier.
There’s also a signif
LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual/Allies, Nonbinary/Genderqueer +) Resources and Research
"Some people have a gender which is neither male nor female and may verb as both male and female at one time, as other genders at different times, as no gender at all, or dispute the very idea of only two genders. The umbrella terms for such genders are 'genderqueer' or 'non-binary' genders. Such gender identities outside of the binary of female and male are increasingly being recognized in legal, medical and psychological systems and diagnostic classifications in line with the emerging presence and advocacy of these groups of people. Population-based studies show a small percentage – but a sizable proportion in terms of raw numbers – of people who identify as non-binary."
From International Review of Psychiatry. Feb, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p 8p.