Is MIAD as a term too all embracing

[Cassandra Lynn]

Hmmm, this is getting interesting now. I can't wait till Daisy reads this, it's gonna give her something to think about as to her 'Bridge' theory.

Just so you know I agree with some of what you say, and it serves to prove the fact that crossdressing is nothing more than a verb, one which describes the act of wearing women's clothing, and yet this main forum that we're on is chock full of people who go cross-eyed when one of us 'TG Spectrum' theorists tries to point out that most CDs are in fact trans and are on one end of that spectrum.

But that, as they say, is another discussion, What your leaving out of what you say is how one thinks and feels inside. (sense of gender as learned over a period of years)
Like i said earlier, gender is mostly what goes on between a persons ears.
Remember, you can't prescribe that gender is all about what is seen and worn and how someone "acts".

As you said...…...
"Therefore a man with a beard and wearing a dress is considered as non-binary due to the fact they do not fall under one of the binary stereotypes.

I would even argue that anybody who does not present 100% as female (under-dressers, people who do not wear a wig for example) would fall under the NB category which would mean the majority of this forum. I will even admit that I would be considered NB due to the fact that I do not always present as 100% female most of the time."

NBs can explain fairly easily why they feel the way they do, most of us can tell about how difficult it was living a life not feeling right in our skin, how we know we weren't matched with our biological sex, the back and forth in our heads about things like transitioning and HRT.

You said.....
"NB means somebody who does not conform to one of the 2 (binary) gender stereotypes. One being a man who acts/looks like a man, the other being a woman who acts/looks like a woman (TS women included)."
Maybe this is part of the problem, it's pretty flimsy when you say "acts/looks like" to describe gender stereotypes and then go on to say a man wearing a beard in a dress acts/looks like a woman in gender.


Does any of that help?
Cass

p.s. No offense Phili, I know from reading your posts, you do have a deeper sense of gender than what most peeps who identify as miad, I was just going from most have said.