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genderqueerblog · 2 years

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Afab genderqueer culture is randomly remembering you have boobs

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#afab genderqueer culture #genderqueer culture #genderqueer #afab genderqueer #IT WON’T LET ME PUT A SPACE FOR THE ANSWER ANYMORE :(

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wronggalaxy · 7 months

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I hate when people say that I don't need to tell anyone my agab.

A) It's very fucking obvious(oh I wonder what could possibly be the assigned gender of a person with boobs and no bulge who goes by Hannah or Belle around multiple people, especially their transphobic family(I swear if someone says not to expose my deadname—it's MY deadname, I'll tell whoever I want, fuckoff)/sarcasm)

B) My agab is a big part of my person and general life

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C) I am my agab. I'm also a boy and both and neither and sometimes switch all at the same time.

In conclusion: gender is complicated and stop trying to police the way I talk about mine.

*agab means: assigned gender at birth

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that-bisexual · 3 months

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"You just aren't cis for attention' Ah yes. I have a makeshift binder that makes my back hurt just because why not. Let me cry at night for hours because of dysphoria because I just can. I deal with your rude comments because I want to. You know, why don't I lose all my friends because of my gender, that sounds so fun!

#lgbtq #trans #afab trans #demigirl #demiboy #genderfluid #agender #genderqueer #enby #nonbinary #bigender

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r0semultiverse · 1 year

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I know a lot of trans stuff is focused on trans kids, but to all my fellow trans adults

I love you

I see you

I cherish you

It’s not too late

You aren’t too old

You’re welcome with open arms regardless of what anyone wants to say about it! 💖

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moons-epiphany · 3 months

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i am very aggressively protective over nonbinary people who look amab because some of you are very quick to accept nonbinary people who look afab but shit on anyone else.

and stop saying "afab nonbinary" and "amab nonbinary" because we all know you're just treating us like "female" and "male" which, yk is the exact opposite of what nonbinary is meant to be.

treat nonbinary people like nonbinary people, nothing else.

#everytime i see i post abt “afab nby” or “amab nby” things another fairy dies #nonbinary #lgbtqia #genderqueer #gender nonconforming #transgender #trans #moons-epiphany #in some situations it's fine to specify afab or amab #bc afab people still experience sexism and may still get periods etc.#but when it has nothing to do with the post #then it's obvious people just want to say “female” or “men”

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leonardoeatscarrots · 8 months

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Trans Bodies are Beautiful

Yeah, wake up. It's body positivity hours.

#leonardo eats carrots #my art #trans #transgender #trans art #trans ftm #gender euphoria #gender euphoria art #vent art #happy vent #dysphoria art #nonbinary #genderqueer #ftm #afab

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lgbtqiamuslimpedia · 9 months

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Boyah

Boyah (plural: Boyat) was subcultural identity of AFAB non-binary,tomboy,demi girl & trans-masculine folks of Persian Gulf. Boyat are asigned female at birth,but express gender atypical behaviour. The origin of this queer subculture is unclear, some boyat claimed that it was started through online forums & groups. [citation needed]

Boyah subculture was more visible in Gulf states (including Kuwait,Oman,Saudi Arabia,UAE,Bahrain). Boyah identity may fall under the modern Transgender and Non-binary umbrella. However some people may considered them as people of forth gender.

Sexuality

Boyat folk's sexuality can be confusing in various cultural contexts. Most of the Boyat had intimate and romantic relationships with cis-girls in their past life, but they do not consider themselves as homosexual.

The term Boyah itself does not mean lesbian in arabic.In later life many Boyat had to pursue a heterosexual marriage & had children.Because marriage is a obligatory in local arabic customs.In addition to this, some boyah were androsexual & interested in boys only.

Culture & Lifestyle

Trans-masculine/tomboys/AFAB non-binary/AFAB genderpunk took the “Boyah” cultural identity in their early adolescence. On the otherhand, some boyat took the male role to challenge societal gender norms and stereotypes in Arabic Gulf States.

In general, a boyah is characterized by no make-up, no feminine expressions, no feminine name,feminine pronouns.In boyah subculture, Boyat community may use a massive masculine watches.Boyat people worn loose-fitting male cloth with a touch of the military, vibrantly coloured dresses,shirts and boyah jeans(which are baggy with big prints all over them). Since the age of internet Arab's boyat community started informal groups,online forums.

Most of the boyat have to lead double lives because gulf states has strict cultural gender roles especially for womxn.Many of them are forced to get married.In general Boyah phenomena is considered a disgrace to an arab family's honour.Additionally atypical gender expression is seems to be indecent and deviant in GCC states.Many boyat face stigma for not adhering with rigid patriarchal gender roles.

After leaving home, many undergo a radical transformation,changing their clothes at school/college or a friend's house.While in transition ,they run no real risk of being caught because,while in public, Emirates women are required to wear the national dress - a long black over-garment called an abaya, which makes it easier to switch roles without drawing attention.

Media

In general, Gulf media portrays queerness in negetive ways. A Boyah named Abeer appeared on the Saudi TV Show “Ya Hala” where he/ze said that he/ze was attracted to women while still at school. He/Ze had a complete love relationship with a classmate for a long time. Another person named Hamood joined a show of Radio Sawa where he/ze explained ze was rebelling against social (gender) norms and his/zee family’s restrictions through this boyah phenomena.

On a national television of UAE, a boyah named Bandar openly spoke about his queer relationship with another girl and expressed the desire to marry her and have children with her through IVF. His statement on Abu Dhabi's national television shocked the whole nation.

Decline of Boyah Culture

In the Persian Gulf region, boyah identity became very controversial since 2007. In 2007, the Kuwaiti parliament amended Article 198 of the country’s penal code so that anyone “imitating the opposite sex in any way” could face up to a year in jail and/or a fine of 1,000 dinars ($3,500). A further problem was that the law made no attempt to define “imitating the opposite sex” So it was basically left to the discretion of the police. Within a couple of weeks at least 14 people had been arrested in Kuwait City & thrown into prison. Boyat made their debut as a public concern in 2008 when Dubai police denounced cross-dressing - its chief, Dahi Khalfan Tamim, called on the Ministry of Social Affairs to find out how widespread the practice is and what causes it.

In 2009, Dubai launched a public campaign under the slogan "Excuse Me, I am a Girl", which cautioned against “masculine” behaviour among AFAB queers & tomboys and aimed to steer them towards "femininity". The impetus for this was a moral panic which swept through several Gulf states at that time, regarding the Boyah phenomena. 2 months after announcing the campaign the police persecuted 40 people (for their gender atypical expression), imprisoned them for 3 years in jail.In addition, trans-masculine/trans males,trans women,gender-queers were also shamed & abused by the UAE's police team.

Public Attitudes

Many conservative patriarchal arab people see a greater danger in the Boyah subcultural practices; they fear it can become permanent and cause great distress for the women and their families.

Psychiatrist Yousef Abou Allaban says, "It can go extreme, where they change their sex and have an operation.'' Saudi journalist Yousef Al-Qafari said in an interview on Radio Sawa that family disintegration and lack of true love have led women to act like a man. Al-Qafari said education was the best way to tackle this phenomenon.He called on the Ministry of Education to take up this role.

Social worker Nadia Naseer said, “Families play an essential role in such cases. Families should monitor their female members, especially when they start acting like men by cutting their hair short, wearing men’s clothing, or refusing to wear women’s accessories”. She also said, when a girl or woman does this,she is looking for attention & sending a message that she is a boyah.

Saudi writer Randa Alsheikh, in one of her columns, said that she attended a social gathering where she saw a group of females who appeared almost completely like men.“I would not be exaggerating if I say I could not tell the difference between them and men,” she wrote.She said that they looked, talked and walked like men & “even worse” some appeared to be in their 40s. We need to quickly address this phenomenon to contain these girls so that they are able to build good families and a healthy society,”

#Boyah #Booyah #Boyat #arabic #GCC #Persian Gulf #queer #trans masculine #genderqueer #gender variance #AFAB #Middle Eastern #queer culture #cultural gender identity

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jembez · 15 days

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Underneath my lounging around the house fit

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pallpokipoki · 2 months

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Transfems are trying to disempower afabs not so that amabs and afabs have equal group powers in queer/progressive/leftist contexts, so that there is no longer domination by any agab, but they are specifically trying to establish amab domination and therefore subjugate afabs because they fear that if afabs are not under amab control they will almost inevitably reconstitute themselves as a terf political force, and therefore reproduce transfem oppression.

The subjugation of afabs to amabs is therefore seen as a way of minimizing the risk of the terf threat, a way to keeping it under control.

You have to get it into your head that transfems see afabs, whether cis, trans or non-binary, as a terf threat.

#transandrophobia #transmasc #trans man #transmasculine #transmisandry #trans #transgender #transandromisia #antitransmasculinity #afab #nonbinary #genderqueer

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puppayy · 2 months

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masc posting

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genderqueerblog · 2 years

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afab genderqueer culture is wanting to be more masc (facial hair and deeper voice) but not wanting to go on T bc you like the fem parts of your body too

#genderqueer #afab genderqueer #hair growth/loss bottom growth and voice change are all permanent; fat distribution and acne are not. they will revert if u go off T #genderqueer culture #afab genderqueer culture

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shitty-goose-quack · 1 year

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psa: you don't have to look a certain way to be enby

you don't have to wear oversized button downs and bagy jeans to "pass"

you don't have to wear intricate and colorful makeup so people know you're queer

you don't have to shave your head to look more androgynous

you don't have to bind everyday to prove that you're really trans, and not just faking

you don't have to use they/them or he/him or fae/faer pronouns to not be a girl

jesus christ i just want to go and shake 14 year old me and tell her she can wear dresses and miniskirts and bras if that makes her feel good

tell her that if wearing mascara threatens her carefully crafted gender identity, then its not a great gender identity

just because you came out as "genderfluid/enby/gender queer/agender/transman/demiboy/unlabelled", masculinity doesn't mean shit (neither does femininity for that matter) and if coming out makes you feel like you're in more of a box, coming out did not serve it's purpose

screw that teacher who asked "why are you wearing girl clothes?" because you came to school in something pink

screw the imposter syndrome you felt wearing a bra instead of a binder

screw the people that say you're misgendering yourself when you call yourself a girl

I can be just as trans in a miniskirt as i am in mens jeans

i can have a gender crisis with or without lipstick on

i can be a lesbian with french braids or a buzz cut

i can flip off gender with long, unkempt cuticles, or 2 inch acrylics

my gender expression is for me, and me alone. if someone with shaved legs, eyelash extensions, waist length hair, and a pushup bra asks you to use he/him pronouns for him, you had better damn well respect that

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say-hi-intrepid-heroes · 9 months

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apparently i've gotten really good at having closeted queer vibes while still presenting as very fem, so i've decided to put together a bit of a list of tips

(btw this is coming from an afab person who still has to present as fem, as in dress fem and not cut my hair too short and etc. this probably wont apply to masc presenting people as much)

1. first, confidence, especially around people of the opposite gender. think "one of the boys" but not "let's go play football". in my experience, this helps to separate a fem person from the stereotype of thinking all boys are cute and giggling about them.

TLDR: be confident and friendly to everyone regardless of gender presentation.

2. halter tops and turtlenecks are your best friend. anything with a high neck, but in the summer, high neck + showing shoulders has gotten me on so many peoples gaydar without being obvious

3. if you have naturally curly or wavy hair, wear it natural, especially if you have shorter hair

4. if you have longer hair, do something other than wear it straight or in a ponytail. go for space buns or a single dutch braid or something else creative.

5. siobhan thompson glasses, or any wire glasses in an interesting shape (picture example below)

6. pants. if it's an event where you need to look nice, dress pants.

7. lipstick. preferably in a bolder color (i like browns and reds). also eyeliner on the outside corner of your eye, or more if that's your vibe. i always have to have natural looking makeup, so corner eyeliner is a great addition

8. converse, vans, or in the case of a nicer event find unique sandals or flats. avoid heels.

9. bracelets, dangly earrings, layered necklaces. avoid single necklaces.

10. [IMPORTANT!!] wear flattering colors. wear things that make you look great. don't conform to any trends. don't conform to my advice, even. wear what will make you the best you you can be. if you are authentic, other authentic people will know.

(these are just some tips that have worked for me. they may not work for everyone, but i've managed to find the few queer people in very anti-queer crowds at like a dozen events over the past year by following this advice. i felt lost when i first was discovering my identity, so hopefully some of this might help someone out)

#lgbtq #lgbtq+#afab #queer #genderqueer #lgbtqia #lgbtq+ posting #pride

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r0semultiverse · 8 months

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My AGAB? Whatever keeps you up nervously sweating at night.

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yournewfriendshouse · 1 year

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yesterday I mentioned to someone that if I went on T I could be like gandalf big naturals and I hadn’t realised until that moment how gender I find gandalf big naturals

gender

#gandalf big naturals #gender #gender what #fashion #I really do want to be bearded lady kind of aesthetic and low key get sad my old afab bod is at this point only cranking out #a very light miustache and whiskers on my chinny chin chin #non binary energy #genderqueer

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thefrogginbullfish · 1 year

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