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UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY REFERENCES LISTED BELOW What is Sex?* Typically defined as: “Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.” (Oxford Dictionary, 2016) -- A method of classification invented by humans -- A system strongly influenced by society’s binary views of gender -- The classification a person receives is largely based on the follo

This is Life with Lisa Ling S05E03: Gender Fluidity (full episode) #LGBTQ #ComingOut #Transgender #YouTube

Content Warning: brief r*pe mention (censored), conversion therapy mention, electroshock therapy mention, aphobia, gatekeeping. As you may have noticed during pride season, aphobia (bigotry against asexual and aromantic people) is rampant within the LGBTQIA community. The reasons (as stated by the aphobic LGBTQ people themselves) mainly center around perceived privilege. Their main argument is this: asexuals/aromantics are only valid when they are not also "cishet" (cisgen

Before I dive in, I need to make the disclaimer that what you are about to read is more of a think piece.  I will not be citing sources because the purpose of this article is to express my views that are based in my own experiences and my observations of other transgender people.  The purpose of this article is not to be a scientific research paper.  There are, however, many resources and research studies with scientific evidence that have come to the same conclusions I have

Content Warning: Explicit sexual content + provocative language!! Brief r*pe mention - all mentions are censored. So Arielle Scarcella, the internet's most annoying TERF, just uploaded a new video titled: I Won't Apologize For Being Transphobic, and it is just as infuriating as you think it would be. She's just beating a dead horse for the views at this point. Don't worry, I already watched it so you don't have to. There are a few points she made that made me realize she gen

It all started when I was 16. When I first came out as agender at age 16, I turned to the internet as any other scared, nervous kid looking for community would do. I was desperate to find other people like me so that I knew I wasn't alone in feeling the way I did. What I found was... nothing. Well, that's a lie. I found two people. One person had multiple videos detailing their back-and-forth between identifying as agender and identifying as a trans man. I thought, well t