Thought I'd give it an overnight on the off chance it might get deleted or even that someone could come up with an answer everyone would agree with...Originally Posted by Beverley Sims
- oh well...
Sanderlay's original question was: Transgender, Gender nonconforming or something else...?
Something else for me, please...
it strikes me that the professionals don't fully agree, we can't fully agree, but as long as we accept that we're somewhere in that weird gender-mixing, crossdressing, femme-presenting melange of males (here on mtf - not to exclude ftm but just invert everything) who have a need or desire to express or utilise feminine aspects of our being for whatever reason, isn't that enough?
One wonders if other folk have the same type of discussions on other forums - I can only imagine a 2nd skin forum... "PVC is better.." "No - latex.." "Well, you mustn't call it latex it's actually acrylonitrile butadiene rubber..." :facepalm:
For the record, I do believe that I - as a not exclusively pleasure dresser - do have aspects that are transgender - how can I explain my avatar and profile pic otherwise?But am I gender-nonconforming? If I were to accept that my gender is not binary but that gender presentation as defined by society always must be, then yes - I'm always gender-nonconforming because there's always a femme or male aspect of me that isn't presented.
I think the definition of transsexual is much clearer, but I would counsel Lucy's closing statement for all of our semantic debating: None of these classifications are absolute.
Katey x
