Originally Posted by Kehleyr
I don't think that merely having some elements of the other sex/gender makes you genderqueer, especially since I'm not big on stereotyping. At the genderqueer discussion I mentioned earlier, one woman identified herself as genderqueer despite a fairly typically female presentation (which is fine, gender isn't just about presentation). But when she tried to explain what made her genderqueer, she said things like she had a "warrior spirit", which really offended me and a lot of the women present - I found it very dismissive of women and very role-confining for her to imply that merely having a warrior spirit made you something other than a woman. I'm not saying she'd wasn't genderqueer (and I'd use gender neutral pronouns to refer to her, but she seemed okay with feminine ones), I'm just saying that I wasn't very happy with that explanation.