![Whoa, whoa, hold the phone. Are you a cis person answering a question about transgender people? If you are, you need to take a fucking step back and redirect this question to someone who knows what they are talking about, because you clearly do not.
First of all, don’t you dare, don’t you fucking dare ”technically” me this or “biologically” me that. If someone considers themselves female, they are female. If someone considers themselves male, they are male. You do not get to decide someone’s gender based on their hormone levels or what is between their legs, ok? You just fucking don’t.
If your friend considers themselves female until they start to physically transition, that’s fine. That’s their call. But guess what? Not every transgender person is the same. You do not get to say “all pre-op transgender people are their assigned gender” just because you have one friend who says that it’s ok for them.
And just where the fuck do you get off dictating who falls into the binary and who doesn’t? “In a way [transitioned people] do fall out of the gender binary”? Um, no, let me fix that for you: Anyone who identifies outside the gender binary is outside the gender binary. Anyone who identifies with the gender binary is of the binary. Is that clear enough for you?
Bottom line: cis people need to stop answering questions about trans* people. If someone comes to you, cis bloggers, asking for information on trans* people, tell them to go ask a trans* person (who has expressed willingness to answer such questions) or better yet to go fucking google it because chances are their question has been answered before by someone who knows what they are talking about.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgzjp8sUFm1qfpe24o1_1280.png)
Whoa, whoa, hold the phone. Are you a cis person answering a question about transgender people? If you are, you need to take a fucking step back and redirect this question to someone who knows what they are talking about, because you clearly do not.
First of all, don’t you dare, don’t you fucking dare ”technically” me this or “biologically” me that. If someone considers themselves female, they are female. If someone considers themselves male, they are male. You do not get to decide someone’s gender based on their hormone levels or what is between their legs, ok? You just fucking don’t.
If your friend considers themselves female until they start to physically transition, that’s fine. That’s their call. But guess what? Not every transgender person is the same. You do not get to say “all pre-op transgender people are their assigned gender” just because you have one friend who says that it’s ok for them.
And just where the fuck do you get off dictating who falls into the binary and who doesn’t? “In a way [transitioned people] do fall out of the gender binary”? Um, no, let me fix that for you: Anyone who identifies outside the gender binary is outside the gender binary. Anyone who identifies with the gender binary is of the binary. Is that clear enough for you?
Bottom line: cis people need to stop answering questions about trans* people. If someone comes to you, cis bloggers, asking for information on trans* people, tell them to go ask a trans* person (who has expressed willingness to answer such questions) or better yet to go fucking google it because chances are their question has been answered before by someone who knows what they are talking about.
