RosieRosieUrMom

Keep in mind this is me pulling from my experience, I live in Tennessee currently, so people aren't great about LGBTQ+ issues most of the time.

if there is any error I made in a concept I'm trying to express or something that wasn't clear let me know so I can correct or clear it up.

this is also not even including gender expression which also plays a role in these boxes/labels, bec that determines how your precieved usually, so this is quite a cut down summary to try to explain the concept.
5/?

The reason I see a lot of pressure, more often than not from the outside of the LGBTQ+ or Trans community, to fit into certain categories is bec I find cis people often have certain pictures or expectations of how or what a trans person should be; basically I find the reason there’s this pressure is bec cis people are often trying to create boxes to understand being trans in their terms and not trying to understand it from a trans perspective.
4/?

I saw a mention earlier in one of the responses about how having the box/label “trans” gives us a belonging and a community, and I agree with this. The boxes or labels aren’t always the issue, it’s how and why they got there, and the act of rejecting a box forced upon us and choosing a box that better fits us is an act of freedom.
3/?

So then we go to the next step, where in the trans spectrum do you fit? This is where you start discovering whether your nonbinary, a transwoman, or transman, etc… basically another set of labels or boxes at least socially.
2/?

It appears as if your base assumption is that by being trans one has to reject any binary choice or box/label(a case being transwomen and transmen for example), at least from my perspective and knowledge, by accepting we’re trans we’ve already done that – by accepting we’re trans we have rejected the “biological” binary put upon us from birth. 1/?

@sh00g I'll be cutting this into parts since I have to work with mastodon's word limit