Anonymous curious poll

[maevele]

I'm thinking more people than I realized among my flist are gq, and I thought an anon poll was a good way to get a rough number.

Poll #6352 Genderqueer

This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 42

Genderqueer,Third Gender or otherwise off the binary?

yes
19 (45.2%)

no
21 (50.0%)

lemme explain
2 (4.8%)

Comments

[julian]

I'm not (except insofar as I'm kinda more butch than would be traditional), but I acknowledge a spectrum (and appreciate it).

Which I realize is like acknowledging the sun, but hey, a lot of people just sit around and deny things.

[jackandahat]

Yeah, I feel like I should go "No... in my opinion". I'm a guy and perfectly content there, but I tend to get "excuse me miss" in shops, and I get frequently told about how "guys don't do...[whatever I'm doing]" - be it make-up, knitting, writing slash, whatever.

So, I think I'm a regular bloke, but other people disagree.

[maevele]

yeah, for purposes of this poll, then, not gq. I meant to specify self identification, etc, rather than cultural standards, but didn't.

[jackandahat]

Ahh - yeah, that's what I thought, but then I thought I should clarify just in case I was wrong.

What I find really interesting is that - as far as I know (given this kind of thing has come up in conversation/my friends have no concept of TMI) I know a fair few gq people, but only one of them was male-assigned-at-birth (If that's the term? I don't want to be offensive). And when I've seen people I don't know talking about it online, I've seen a lot of "I get female pronouns, but...", and I've not really come across "I get male pronouns, but..."

Which makes me wonder why, but I'm curious like that!

[trinker]

So, splainin' -

For a very long time, acknowledging that I was female-bodied and perceived, but not very "I am female" in my head.

But now that I'm actively mothering...it's very female-ing. So *now* I am confused, because my gender if more congruent with my externals than my self-image has it.

[phi]

Which isn't to say that I don't enjoy messing with people's heads by, say, femming it up with the makeup and jewelry but rocking what passes for a butch haircut around here (I say "what passes for butch" because after a visit to san francisco I realized that a cut that definitely turns heads in puritan new england is kind of humdrum by west coast standards). I'm really getting into playing with different ways of performing female-ness and getting away from mainstream ideas of femininity, but I don't think that's what your question was asking.