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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by nettie@lemmy.world to c/mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

A personal take on how I experience gender.

EDIT - more context would have helped as

I'm not trying to propose some simplified mathematical fits all graph here.

I'm struggling, having been out as non binary for about 5 years, with the idea that trans woman might be a better introductory starting point label for me. I understand gender as complex - far more complex than a 2 line graph sketch - but drew the graph to hone in on MY experience with fluidity. I was interested in my strength/clarity of feeling at different points.

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26621705/

https://people.socsci.tau.ac.il/mu/daphnajoel/files/2019/10/Joel2019Neuroscientist.pdf

I think probably gender identity is more complex than a 2D plot, too. Even this complex brain-sex mosaic model doesn't adequately capture it.

A common model I've seen for talking about gender is using the Gender Unicorn:

It is of course inaccurate and problematic, as any theory is going to be for something as complex as gender.

What is useful about the Gender Unicorn is that it gives you that intensity scale that on one extreme could be understood as agender, which is what I think your drawing is trying to represent.

[–] Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, very similar! They are used for the same purpose. It's a fine educational resource for a cis and/or heterosexual audience that have never thought about sexuality or gender before and this is like the superficial introduction to concepts like gender being more than just your sex, or being completely binary, etc.

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