i'm not sure if i'm comfy calling myself trans, but i'm sure as heck not cis, and given the vocab my community uses and has, i feel like i'd better stick to trans

and in gender 5.0 i hope the binary-nonbinary binary also gets broken

this has been genderthoughts with ur local genderthot

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Caribou wrote on November 1, 2018 at 2:27 PM

I'm gonna DDOS the gender servers.

musou wrote on November 1, 2018 at 4:48 PM

this is an interesting point. when i talk about gender with people, i think most i've encountered define trans as like, (gender != agab), but some define it as !!gender && (gender != agab) and i think the tension between those definitions can make talking about this stuff more difficult than it needs to be.

i am trying to think about how to put that in a way that doesn't rely on programming metaphors but i'm not sure i can

twovests OP wrote on November 1, 2018 at 6:46 PM

wait i'm confused, what is !!gender meant to be?

but i like this, i shall identify as (gender != agab)

musou wrote on November 1, 2018 at 7:19 PM (edited on November 1, 2018 at 7:24 PM)

!! is a trick in languages where values other than false count as "falsy" in boolean operators, like in ruby if you have a value that might be nil you can explicitly convert it to false with !!. so if you are a-gender, or anti-gender, or have some other value for gender that doesn't count in some sense as the affirmative presence of a gender then !!gender makes it false. and in my experience at least, for some cases like that, individuals do self-identify as trans and in others they don't.

certainly i fit that description myself and i do self-identify as trans in contexts where it's safe to do so

twovests OP wrote on November 1, 2018 at 11:22 PM

i am !!gender