Whenever someone asks me what a woman is, I answer with "a person that covers her drink when you enter the room." Seems to satisfy them as I rarely get follow-up questions 🤷
I hope you are taking steps to take care of yourself! Your work is amazing and you’ve been pumping out a lot of it in a relatively short period of time. Stay well and keep hydrated
I tried T, and WOW it caused some of the worst depression of my life! (I made 2 videos about it back in 2014 and 2017 if you wanna hear about it.) For me, surgical transition was top surgery and hysterectomy. Way back in the day, people used to ask me if I'm transitioning to male, to be a man. Nope, I've transitioned to altersex, to live my best Gendervoid life. I don't tell people much about my transition irl, because I'd have to explain what "altersex" and "Gendervoid" mean, and I don't wanna give Nonbinary 101 & 102 lectures.
This is a nice bday present... I needed this... you are nailing it. Now, that said, I just realized something, something I have always held, but it has just now gelled, AND I am writing it down! Whenever I have gotten "into it"with another Human Being, I ended up walking away from the confrontation, and thought (and sometimes I even said this to the other Person) that, It's All So Fucking Complicated, And Life Is Too Short For All This BS Trying To Jam Everything Into Boxes, So Let's Just Stop It, And Have A Fucking Good Time. That Is The Important Thing Here.
I'm still in the first 20 minutes of this video, and can tell I'm in for a great time. You mentioned heuristics and showed Cookie Monster. I'll look for cameras in my home later.
I’m still figuring out my gender identity. I’m sure I’m gay because I like guys and have regular physical relations with them, but I feel very feminine. Anyway, it’s so nice to have discussions about this 😊 Liking your videos! ❤❤
several things to say: 1. Who considers social transition easy??????? It's like the hardest part. Even for a binary trans woman (me), it basically amounts to having the most humiliating conversation possible over and over again. Just because people (presumably) know what a woman is, doesn't mean that they don't feel empowered to ask insane and inappropriate questions about all sort of private aspects of my life. Ugh. 2. I dress normally 3. I am leaving this comment in the hopes that the algorithm will show me MORE content like this
Yeah I agree, social is the hardest part! But some people have a perception that social transition is easier or like, the lesser version of transition. It makes no sense to me. Thank you for commenting! I hope you get more of the kind of content you want!
As someone who is a trans woman who then realized she’s also genderfluid and wants to have all the genders, i just ended up not taking blockers but also taking estrogen. I don’t know the medical risks of this because its not really well researched. Its interesting that I already was doing this as a SWer to not take blockers for work reasons, and then I realized oh, I want to just be whatever. I default to trans woman (i don’t like to be taken for a cis woman) but I also am transmasculine and a man sometimes (but its really scary to do such, and i say transmasculine because my sex has been changed up already and I’m transitioning further). Above all I’m autigender where autism is more of a gender for me than man or woman. I just want people to project gender onto me with a distribution that mostly centers arround fem but has a second modal on man. I just want to be double binary and also no gender and all genders and whatever gender.
I wanted to say thank you for using trans masc as a term for yourself - I'm an afab flavor genderqueer/trans enby. And while a large component of what I am is trans masc, I find myself also wanting to say trans femme for myself. I've never... had that conversation with anyone, though. I'm just. Relieved? Like, I'm glad to know someone who started on the other end has also wound a path to this strange little place. Makes me feel less alone. I felt very alone (hence being too much of a coward to ever have a convo along the lines of "I'm kind of trans masc and trans femme, as a natural byproduct of my flavor of transness." Omnitrans. Universal transes! Trans Void. Trans Vast! Just. Thank you? (No really, I've a lot of shame and guilt, like melodramaticly quoting Frankenstein-level boatloads - the way of the coward is strong in me - and reading this eased that so thanks.)
I'm mostly commenting for the algorithm, but here's some words on my non-binary medical transition. I first started t 6.5 years ago and i was on low dose for 5 years before upping to a typical dose. Suddenly cis people who had understood my nonbinary gender were sure that i would either regret being on t or that i must actually by a binary man. Someone who was there when i got a mastectomy, who would explain nonbinary identity and transition to older liberals at her church now was convinced i must be a trans man to be happy on my dose of t. It's Super annoying to then go online and get similar opinions from transmedicalist binary trans people. Your comments on butchness are interesting- i think one thing a lot of terfs ignore is that a lot of people they see as "lost butches" or "lost lesbians" whatever are super gay for men. There's a stereotype that t makes you gay, but i suspect it has more to do with being attractive to queer men is a very different experience to being attractive to straight men. And i dress normal.
Great video essay, very much enjoyed! For me I'd answer "how many genders are there" with just 1. I don't believe in having discrete categories in the first place, more of a multidimensional kaleidoscope (had to google how to spell that word). Having borders between gender categories only serves to create more division between us. Labels are great, but they should only be used as a descriptive (not prescriptive) present-tense communication tool to help articulate the subjective. Part of gender liberation is to avoid putting people into boxes that they didn't subscribe to, e.g. man / woman. Note, I'm saying this as a soft-launching vaguely trans-femme or bigender "coward" that's still stuck in the ejector cannon.
In my native language, there is no he/she, just one pronoun for everyone and when i grew up i didn't actually realise how much society was differentiating between men and women. Yeah, i wish society was actually like that. Recently i've realised that i'm non-binary according to society's gender standards, but i didn't feel a sense of disconnect in my childhood because i basically assumed everyone was non-binary. It sucks to realise how strong society's genders are and to develop gender dysphoria bc of that. It would be nice to have some non-heteronormative friends or rl environments where things could feel normal again.
@@DesimereThat's very interesting, and I wish English was like your native language. I hardcore relate to the idea of assuming everyone is like me. Growing up, I also never got why there was any separation between boys/girls (and as an diagnosed Autistic I was an outsider to both groups). I also felt the same way, not just with gender but with sexuality / romanticism too (I now identify as "strongly aroace spectrum"). Never really understood what crushes were. My mind just sort of assumed that crushes were just people who look pretty and I wanted to hang out with.... But I never really understood what the "big deal" was. Didn't really understand the sexual stuff either, just chalked it up to "boys being silly". I sort of just assumed that sex was just something people who are already in relationships did like any other hobby. But didn't really occur to me that sexual desire was a motivator for such relationships to form in the first place. Again like I was just like "what's the big deal".
@@JonathanJimbo for me, i think it was the fact that my mom relied on me for emotional support. So i became the kind of person who is very focused on the other person and their emotions. So in group settings i get exhausted really quickly and that made me an outsider at school, but not at an after-school hobby thing where the class sizes were max 5 people. That was quite manageable and i didn't stand out. I just ended up seeing all people as individuals with their individual vibes, but i never learned to catch group vibes and sentiments. I have somehow ended up knowing a lot of autistic people, including my boyfriend, and several of them think i'm autistic too. So i do wonder sometimes, but since i'm pretty good at that "mind reading" of neurotypical people based on body language and vibes, then it's a bit sus. I've heard that it's possible for autistic people to be better at that than most neurotypicals, but then how would it even be possible to know for sure, since i already have adhd and that can cause "weirdness" too :D
Okay, I need to point out, because it's an incredibly common misconception: the bigenital/Salmacian surgery options are so, so often wrongly labeled as "non-binary phallo" and the like. It speaks to the ignorance of the largely cis medical community on trans issues generally that it's labeled as "nonbinary" no matter what. I'm a binary trans man, and getting Salmacian phallo. Which is literally simpler than the "typical" phallo with vaginectomy, UL, etc. btw. Oh, also you can absolutely get two penises. It's not literally adding two penises ON, but look into no burial type phallo. You'd have the phalloplasty, and the micropenis sized growth that's already there from T...not buried (don't think I can really get too graphic about it).
I’ve been eyeballing the abdominal phalloplasty pretty hard. My main concern (aside from the price of course) is maintaining my original equipment so I don’t lose “sensation” and Allegedly you can’t get the surgery past 35… and I’m a little past that at this point
I just had a friend in her 60s finally get her bottom surgery a couple months ago. She's still in recovery, but says it's going fine. I don't know if there's something special about abdominal phalloplasty or not, but I would bet you're fine
All surgical risk goes up as you age, but I've never heard anything about not being able to get phallo past 35. Getting older just makes your body heal worse, increasing chance for complications. Simple as.
Re. fish-I'm a taxonomist, so... short version... bony fish (which is, basically, most fish-everything except sharks, rays, lampreys, and hagfish) are more closely related to mammals, amphibians, etc. than they are to the "other fish" (sharks, rays, lampreys, and hagfish). We can create a perfectly explicit definition of "fish", it just isn't a good definition if our goal is representing evolutionary relationships. There is a straightforward way to get to a good definition of fish, though: bony fish are fish and sharks, rays, lampreys, and hagfish are not fish. People don't like this because it conflicts with their intuition and they don't want to learn something unintuitive. However, we used to think whales & dolphins were fish, then we changed the definition of "fish" to exclude them, and nothing bad happened. (The argument that whales & dolphins aren't fish is basically the same-whales & dolphins are more closely related to other mammals than they are to fish, so considering them fish isn't a good definition if we're trying to represent evolutionary relationships.)
Also, a comment more related to the actual topic of the video rather than to one of the rabbit holes that makes a brief appearance. At 3:43-"non-binary people aren't men or women". What about non-binary men? And non-binary women? People-mostly trans people-do use these as self-descriptors. I think I know roughly what they mean (and think "non-binary trans woman" is probably a good description of me), but I haven't sorted this out in my head, yet. Unlike fish, I don't have a good definition of "non-binary" to apply here. (Making this comment after watching the first 8 minutes or so-for all I know, you tackle this later in the video. I'll find out!)
Ah, yet another classification problem! No, I don't cover that, though you are right, there are people who identify that way. Though nowadays many use "trans masc" and "trans femme" rather than "man" and "woman" if they're that flavor of nonbinary, but people do still use those others I suppose.
I see you mentioned transmedicalists earlier in the video, the general community perception in the transmedicalist community is nonbinary supporting or neutral. There are many nonbinary transmedicalists as well. Transmedicalism in it's simplest terms is the idea that gender is not a choice, and is influenced by something physical, not social.
There's also that annoying capacity everyone has to PROJECT all kinds of their own BS onto others. All those "haters" can be shown to be doing this, most of the time. No one is safe. Be aware. Act accordingly.
Since you reference cats a lot and like to mess with conservatives, please get a cat and name it Trash Jr. I love the language anarchy cats, punks and enbies have regarding their names and would love to see someone revel in it.
@@Trash-Garbage-Trash thanks, I really want to name a cat Trash Junior. However I had a follow up idea, you could confuse people more and name the kitty Trash Senior or Trash Prime
People can only name less than like 20 colors, and can barely recognize colors within similar range (i.e. most people can't tell the difference between fuchsia and magenta). Don't expect people to recognize and remember your super-duper specific so-called gender, because they won't. By the way, colors are things we can perceived with our sight, we can't perceived "genders" with any of our senses.
The thing about "remembering your super-duper specific so-called gender" is that people in real life aren't generally rude assholes about things that don't affect them. Then again, I live in Appalachia and maybe Appalachians are built different.
I also think people do often perceive people's genders even before they come out and transition. Trans women are often subject to violence before they come out for their perceived femininity. Trans men are often excluded from "female spaces" and treated as outsiders before they ever transition (though these get worse during transition). And nonbinary people frequently feel and are treated as gender outsiders even before coming out. People perceive differences. This is a very common experience.
As an enby who also started with just trying testosterone and then finding my will to live and uncovering so, so much dysphoria when it turned off... ...I have recently been off testosterone to see if my partner and I can have a baby... and as life-altering as testosterone was, and as much as I noticed going off it (I had to get the gel kind because I couldn't stand the swings between even weekly shots)... ...anyway, I have been surprisingly okay with going completely off the testosterone. I still fully plan on and look forward to restarting it, but I just wanted to mention that this is an experience that is possible, because I sure didn't imagine it was a possible outcome.
Hey hello Im really early, but feeling weird about gender and working retail has led me to using gendered terms about only the most masculine or feminine charactes i see. I understand it can be off to do so, but living in rural America provides certain ideas. I personally feel very off without feminine features. Ive been growing out my hair for four years and im still confused. This year was my first pride event. Do you have a discord to join? If you dont i would suggest one if you have the time.
Oh, um, I don't even know how to go about making a discord for this channel, I can look into that. There are a lot of online resources about transition and there are likely more resources and queer people in your area than you think! Or you can save up and move somewhere better. It's really hard growing up queer in rural areas but there are resources available, look into it! Planned Parenthood is a good resources, though there aren't as many of those around as there used to be.
@@Trash-Garbage-Trash Alright, so I will use "ony/onych", a Polish plural, gender-neutral pronoun made up by my grandma who had approximately 0 knowledge about anything trans (she was just quirky)
@@brianthatweirdbarberguy I see this reply but were there supposed to be others? Let me check the auto-moderation tab and see if they got auto-filtered
I'm sorry to inform you, commenting on this video means you'll be seeing a lot more of this type of content. Even negative interactions boost the type of content on your feed. Enjoy that!
Imagine having so much free time that you feel the need to come up with a unique term for your personal degree of masculinity/femininity instead of just doing your thing.
Are there infinite stuffs in the stuff jar too? Can the stuff jar fit infinite stuffs in it? You're not very good at the stuff-guessing game. You're not going to win the stuff jar.
Intersex people exist. They make up 1-2% of the global population. There are SO many ways someone's body can be intersex, from all the different chromosome combinations to hormones not being at the "normal" levels during puberty and adulthood or even just the genitals not being within a certain standard set by doctors, who then will perform unnecessary surgeries to "make" them fit into one box or the other. There are not two sexes, and that's biological fact.
i assume that according to your definition the determining characteristic between the two classifications is the number of y chromosomes, and most people can't be sure what their sex or gender is because they haven't taken a dna test? So these are Schrödinger's characteristics, existing in a non-binary superposition until tested.
Whenever someone asks me what a woman is, I answer with "a person that covers her drink when you enter the room."
Seems to satisfy them as I rarely get follow-up questions 🤷
That's a pretty good answer!
I don’t believe that’s the reaction you get
@@Tegridy555 Well what can I tell you...
hahaha leiwand
I hope you are taking steps to take care of yourself! Your work is amazing and you’ve been pumping out a lot of it in a relatively short period of time. Stay well and keep hydrated
Thank you! Yeah I might not be able to keep up this schedule for too long!
0:40 it’s like relying on the term Global South but you can’t find Yemen or Guatemala on a map.
I tried T, and WOW it caused some of the worst depression of my life! (I made 2 videos about it back in 2014 and 2017 if you wanna hear about it.) For me, surgical transition was top surgery and hysterectomy. Way back in the day, people used to ask me if I'm transitioning to male, to be a man. Nope, I've transitioned to altersex, to live my best Gendervoid life. I don't tell people much about my transition irl, because I'd have to explain what "altersex" and "Gendervoid" mean, and I don't wanna give Nonbinary 101 & 102 lectures.
Yeah I really don't enjoy having those kinds of conversations
This is just a form of radical body modification.
@@saoirse2963 “just” is anything ever just one thing?
Sounds like just a bunch of atoms and forces to me. 😅
This is a nice bday present... I needed this... you are nailing it. Now, that said, I just realized something, something I have always held, but it has just now gelled, AND I am writing it down! Whenever I have gotten "into it"with another Human Being, I ended up walking away from the confrontation, and thought (and sometimes I even said this to the other Person) that, It's All So Fucking Complicated, And Life Is Too Short For All This BS Trying To Jam Everything Into Boxes, So Let's Just Stop It, And Have A Fucking Good Time. That Is The Important Thing Here.
Yes! Absolutely agree, we should stop being weird about stuff and just try to have a nice time and do good things while we're here
There is only one gender and it's mine
🤣😅 LuNa, destroyer of genders
I stole everyone else's and stuffed them into mine@@Trash-Garbage-Trash
@@LuNa_097 That explains the sharp rise in genderless entities we've been seeing lately.
Mom says it's my turn to play with gender. Give it back!
I was gonna say "Gollum-gender", but that implies the existence of a bimodal "Smeagol-gender"
I'm still in the first 20 minutes of this video, and can tell I'm in for a great time. You mentioned heuristics and showed Cookie Monster. I'll look for cameras in my home later.
I'm glad you're enjoying it!
I’m still figuring out my gender identity. I’m sure I’m gay because I like guys and have regular physical relations with them, but I feel very feminine. Anyway, it’s so nice to have discussions about this 😊 Liking your videos! ❤❤
Thank you!
I can confirm clouds are peak masculine identity. Yawgmoth the Death Cloud is sigma male performance
but stylistically I wear hakama and capes. Like Asuka R. Kreuz
This has been in my "to watch" list for a long time but I'm glad I've seen it now. Thanks for putting this out.
@@phyphor thank you!
several things to say:
1. Who considers social transition easy??????? It's like the hardest part. Even for a binary trans woman (me), it basically amounts to having the most humiliating conversation possible over and over again. Just because people (presumably) know what a woman is, doesn't mean that they don't feel empowered to ask insane and inappropriate questions about all sort of private aspects of my life. Ugh.
2. I dress normally
3. I am leaving this comment in the hopes that the algorithm will show me MORE content like this
Yeah I agree, social is the hardest part! But some people have a perception that social transition is easier or like, the lesser version of transition. It makes no sense to me.
Thank you for commenting! I hope you get more of the kind of content you want!
there's only one gender, and it's NERF OR NOTHING
@@SpikeyBagel 🤣
@@SpikeyBagel that's two genders actually. Nerf. And Nothing. Two of the genders!
6:10 I thought you said "2 bosses" here (as opposed to '2 boxes') and well, it makes sense either way lol
As someone who is a trans woman who then realized she’s also genderfluid and wants to have all the genders, i just ended up not taking blockers but also taking estrogen. I don’t know the medical risks of this because its not really well researched. Its interesting that I already was doing this as a SWer to not take blockers for work reasons, and then I realized oh, I want to just be whatever.
I default to trans woman (i don’t like to be taken for a cis woman) but I also am transmasculine and a man sometimes (but its really scary to do such, and i say transmasculine because my sex has been changed up already and I’m transitioning further). Above all I’m autigender where autism is more of a gender for me than man or woman. I just want people to project gender onto me with a distribution that mostly centers arround fem but has a second modal on man. I just want to be double binary and also no gender and all genders and whatever gender.
@@NattiNekoMaid Autigender is a super relatable label. Yeah having weird genders is fine. Good even!
I wanted to say thank you for using trans masc as a term for yourself - I'm an afab flavor genderqueer/trans enby. And while a large component of what I am is trans masc, I find myself also wanting to say trans femme for myself. I've never... had that conversation with anyone, though. I'm just. Relieved? Like, I'm glad to know someone who started on the other end has also wound a path to this strange little place. Makes me feel less alone. I felt very alone (hence being too much of a coward to ever have a convo along the lines of "I'm kind of trans masc and trans femme, as a natural byproduct of my flavor of transness." Omnitrans. Universal transes! Trans Void. Trans Vast! Just. Thank you?
(No really, I've a lot of shame and guilt, like melodramaticly quoting Frankenstein-level boatloads - the way of the coward is strong in me - and reading this eased that so thanks.)
I'm mostly commenting for the algorithm, but here's some words on my non-binary medical transition. I first started t 6.5 years ago and i was on low dose for 5 years before upping to a typical dose. Suddenly cis people who had understood my nonbinary gender were sure that i would either regret being on t or that i must actually by a binary man. Someone who was there when i got a mastectomy, who would explain nonbinary identity and transition to older liberals at her church now was convinced i must be a trans man to be happy on my dose of t. It's Super annoying to then go online and get similar opinions from transmedicalist binary trans people.
Your comments on butchness are interesting- i think one thing a lot of terfs ignore is that a lot of people they see as "lost butches" or "lost lesbians" whatever are super gay for men. There's a stereotype that t makes you gay, but i suspect it has more to do with being attractive to queer men is a very different experience to being attractive to straight men.
And i dress normal.
That is really annoying! As if someone presenting masculine can't be nonbinary? There's no wrong way to be nonbinary.
Great video essay, very much enjoyed!
For me I'd answer "how many genders are there" with just 1.
I don't believe in having discrete categories in the first place, more of a multidimensional kaleidoscope (had to google how to spell that word).
Having borders between gender categories only serves to create more division between us.
Labels are great, but they should only be used as a descriptive (not prescriptive) present-tense communication tool to help articulate the subjective.
Part of gender liberation is to avoid putting people into boxes that they didn't subscribe to, e.g. man / woman.
Note, I'm saying this as a soft-launching vaguely trans-femme or bigender "coward" that's still stuck in the ejector cannon.
I kind of like that interpretation! You may win a jar of gumballs someday!
In my native language, there is no he/she, just one pronoun for everyone and when i grew up i didn't actually realise how much society was differentiating between men and women. Yeah, i wish society was actually like that. Recently i've realised that i'm non-binary according to society's gender standards, but i didn't feel a sense of disconnect in my childhood because i basically assumed everyone was non-binary. It sucks to realise how strong society's genders are and to develop gender dysphoria bc of that. It would be nice to have some non-heteronormative friends or rl environments where things could feel normal again.
@@DesimereThat's very interesting, and I wish English was like your native language.
I hardcore relate to the idea of assuming everyone is like me. Growing up, I also never got why there was any separation between boys/girls (and as an diagnosed Autistic I was an outsider to both groups).
I also felt the same way, not just with gender but with sexuality / romanticism too (I now identify as "strongly aroace spectrum").
Never really understood what crushes were. My mind just sort of assumed that crushes were just people who look pretty and I wanted to hang out with.... But I never really understood what the "big deal" was.
Didn't really understand the sexual stuff either, just chalked it up to "boys being silly".
I sort of just assumed that sex was just something people who are already in relationships did like any other hobby. But didn't really occur to me that sexual desire was a motivator for such relationships to form in the first place. Again like I was just like "what's the big deal".
@@JonathanJimbo for me, i think it was the fact that my mom relied on me for emotional support. So i became the kind of person who is very focused on the other person and their emotions. So in group settings i get exhausted really quickly and that made me an outsider at school, but not at an after-school hobby thing where the class sizes were max 5 people. That was quite manageable and i didn't stand out. I just ended up seeing all people as individuals with their individual vibes, but i never learned to catch group vibes and sentiments.
I have somehow ended up knowing a lot of autistic people, including my boyfriend, and several of them think i'm autistic too. So i do wonder sometimes, but since i'm pretty good at that "mind reading" of neurotypical people based on body language and vibes, then it's a bit sus. I've heard that it's possible for autistic people to be better at that than most neurotypicals, but then how would it even be possible to know for sure, since i already have adhd and that can cause "weirdness" too :D
Okay, I need to point out, because it's an incredibly common misconception: the bigenital/Salmacian surgery options are so, so often wrongly labeled as "non-binary phallo" and the like. It speaks to the ignorance of the largely cis medical community on trans issues generally that it's labeled as "nonbinary" no matter what.
I'm a binary trans man, and getting Salmacian phallo. Which is literally simpler than the "typical" phallo with vaginectomy, UL, etc. btw.
Oh, also you can absolutely get two penises. It's not literally adding two penises ON, but look into no burial type phallo. You'd have the phalloplasty, and the micropenis sized growth that's already there from T...not buried (don't think I can really get too graphic about it).
Yeah I know a lot of trans men get vagina-sparing phallo and metoidio, but I wasn't aware I could actually get two penises! Fascinating!
Whenever someone asks me how many genders there are my answer is either: "2* (with an asterisk)" or "just over 8.1 billion"
@@roseplate279 definitely closer to 8.1 billion than 2
I’ve been eyeballing the abdominal phalloplasty pretty hard. My main concern (aside from the price of course) is maintaining my original equipment so I don’t lose “sensation”
and
Allegedly you can’t get the surgery past 35… and I’m a little past that at this point
I've heard that but I'm not sure if it's a set in stone rule or not.
@@Trash-Garbage-Trash if it was set in stone, I'd be shit outta luck. I just turned 47!
I just had a friend in her 60s finally get her bottom surgery a couple months ago. She's still in recovery, but says it's going fine. I don't know if there's something special about abdominal phalloplasty or not, but I would bet you're fine
All surgical risk goes up as you age, but I've never heard anything about not being able to get phallo past 35. Getting older just makes your body heal worse, increasing chance for complications. Simple as.
Oh you can do no burial! And no v-nectomy. Not sure which "original equipment" you mean here but both are absolutely possible.
Sorry for out of topic comment but that bolo tie looks so awesome on you✅
Thank you!
Re. fish-I'm a taxonomist, so... short version... bony fish (which is, basically, most fish-everything except sharks, rays, lampreys, and hagfish) are more closely related to mammals, amphibians, etc. than they are to the "other fish" (sharks, rays, lampreys, and hagfish). We can create a perfectly explicit definition of "fish", it just isn't a good definition if our goal is representing evolutionary relationships.
There is a straightforward way to get to a good definition of fish, though: bony fish are fish and sharks, rays, lampreys, and hagfish are not fish. People don't like this because it conflicts with their intuition and they don't want to learn something unintuitive. However, we used to think whales & dolphins were fish, then we changed the definition of "fish" to exclude them, and nothing bad happened.
(The argument that whales & dolphins aren't fish is basically the same-whales & dolphins are more closely related to other mammals than they are to fish, so considering them fish isn't a good definition if we're trying to represent evolutionary relationships.)
Also, a comment more related to the actual topic of the video rather than to one of the rabbit holes that makes a brief appearance. At 3:43-"non-binary people aren't men or women". What about non-binary men? And non-binary women? People-mostly trans people-do use these as self-descriptors. I think I know roughly what they mean (and think "non-binary trans woman" is probably a good description of me), but I haven't sorted this out in my head, yet. Unlike fish, I don't have a good definition of "non-binary" to apply here.
(Making this comment after watching the first 8 minutes or so-for all I know, you tackle this later in the video. I'll find out!)
Ah, yet another classification problem! No, I don't cover that, though you are right, there are people who identify that way. Though nowadays many use "trans masc" and "trans femme" rather than "man" and "woman" if they're that flavor of nonbinary, but people do still use those others I suppose.
I’m a non binary trans woman and tomorrow I’ll be picking up my first prescription for HRT. Only had to wait 9 years 😅
Hell yeah!
I see you mentioned transmedicalists earlier in the video, the general community perception in the transmedicalist community is nonbinary supporting or neutral. There are many nonbinary transmedicalists as well. Transmedicalism in it's simplest terms is the idea that gender is not a choice, and is influenced by something physical, not social.
@ 20:55 🤣🎯 Best Believe they will be 😂😂😂💯💯💯
this video is a masterpiece, thank you
omg, thank you!
Side by side, or under-over style? Or a single shaft with two prongs?
stacked on top of each other, preferably
There's also that annoying capacity everyone has to PROJECT all kinds of their own BS onto others. All those "haters" can be shown to be doing this, most of the time. No one is safe. Be aware. Act accordingly.
hey i havnt seen all of ur videos yet but i've seen a couple of the first ones and i just wanted to say u've gotten SO GOOD!
Thank you! I hope they just keep getting better!
I'm the dad of an genderfluid enby and I found your video interesting and entertaining.
Thank you! I love seeing supportive parents!
46:05 Uh oh. The mood is too relatable 😶
Good luck lmao
Since you reference cats a lot and like to mess with conservatives, please get a cat and name it Trash Jr. I love the language anarchy cats, punks and enbies have regarding their names and would love to see someone revel in it.
Trash Jr. would be a really good name for a cat!
@@Trash-Garbage-Trash thanks, I really want to name a cat Trash Junior. However I had a follow up idea, you could confuse people more and name the kitty Trash Senior or Trash Prime
@@RUclipsUserAnon "I'm Trash and this cat is Trash Senior" lmao
25:34 I know exactly what you're talking about. Good ol' guess how many stuffs in the stuff container.
I'm glad someone knew what I was talking about!
asking "how many genders are there" is kinda like asking "how many colors are there"
People can only name less than like 20 colors, and can barely recognize colors within similar range (i.e. most people can't tell the difference between fuchsia and magenta). Don't expect people to recognize and remember your super-duper specific so-called gender, because they won't. By the way, colors are things we can perceived with our sight, we can't perceived "genders" with any of our senses.
Ooh very true! You might win one of the jars of stuff!
The thing about "remembering your super-duper specific so-called gender" is that people in real life aren't generally rude assholes about things that don't affect them. Then again, I live in Appalachia and maybe Appalachians are built different.
I also think people do often perceive people's genders even before they come out and transition. Trans women are often subject to violence before they come out for their perceived femininity. Trans men are often excluded from "female spaces" and treated as outsiders before they ever transition (though these get worse during transition). And nonbinary people frequently feel and are treated as gender outsiders even before coming out. People perceive differences. This is a very common experience.
I think the reply I was replying to got deleted, this was meant for someone else, not rarebeeph
As an enby who also started with just trying testosterone and then finding my will to live and uncovering so, so much dysphoria when it turned off...
...I have recently been off testosterone to see if my partner and I can have a baby... and as life-altering as testosterone was, and as much as I noticed going off it (I had to get the gel kind because I couldn't stand the swings between even weekly shots)...
...anyway, I have been surprisingly okay with going completely off the testosterone. I still fully plan on and look forward to restarting it, but I just wanted to mention that this is an experience that is possible, because I sure didn't imagine it was a possible outcome.
That's great that it's working out for you! I've had to go off for pharmacy issues and I got super depressed. But everyone's experience is different!
PSV MENTIONED!! i want that so bad
haha same but the opposite
"How do non-binary people transition?"
However the fu-
"HOWEVER THE FUCK THEY WANT"
I got it right!!!!
(Really loving your vids, Trash ❤)
Thank you! Lol, great minds think alike
Comment for hemipenes!
I love your videos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
Feel free to steal my t shirt idea. Hello, my fellow dimorphic mammals.
Hey hello Im really early, but feeling weird about gender and working retail has led me to using gendered terms about only the most masculine or feminine charactes i see.
I understand it can be off to do so, but living in rural America provides certain ideas. I personally feel very off without feminine features. Ive been growing out my hair for four years and im still confused. This year was my first pride event. Do you have a discord to join? If you dont i would suggest one if you have the time.
Oh, um, I don't even know how to go about making a discord for this channel, I can look into that. There are a lot of online resources about transition and there are likely more resources and queer people in your area than you think! Or you can save up and move somewhere better. It's really hard growing up queer in rural areas but there are resources available, look into it! Planned Parenthood is a good resources, though there aren't as many of those around as there used to be.
I am tentacles monster gender
And that's absolutely fine
What pronouns do woodland fairies have?
All of them.
woodland fairies use fae/faer.
@@Trash-Garbage-Trash Alright, so I will use "ony/onych", a Polish plural, gender-neutral pronoun made up by my grandma who had approximately 0 knowledge about anything trans (she was just quirky)
@@mr.cauliflower3536 lol what does that mean in Polish?
@@Trash-Garbage-Trash It's a neologism, and it sounds like a gender neutral they/them
I dress normal
I think
Adam Sandler Normal or Suit Normal?
@@Trash-Garbage-Trash just weird barber guy normal
you know, like a normal bow tie and suspenders and scrunchie
@@Trash-Garbage-Trash weird barber guy normal
bow tie
suspenders
scrunchie
I think RUclips is eating my replies
@@brianthatweirdbarberguy I see this reply but were there supposed to be others? Let me check the auto-moderation tab and see if they got auto-filtered
What the heck. Wrong turn algorithm!!!
I'm sorry to inform you, commenting on this video means you'll be seeing a lot more of this type of content. Even negative interactions boost the type of content on your feed. Enjoy that!
Don’t listen to him, @@Trash-Garbage-Trash. I am so glad the algorithm brought me to your channel!
And congratulations on 1k subs! 💖
Skill issue
@@Trash-Garbage-Trash quite right 😂 I didn’t think of that
Imagine having so much free time that you feel the need to come up with a unique term for your personal degree of masculinity/femininity instead of just doing your thing.
I mean.. maybe watch the video?
They are only two gender/sex, and a infinite number of gender identities.
Are there infinite stuffs in the stuff jar too? Can the stuff jar fit infinite stuffs in it? You're not very good at the stuff-guessing game. You're not going to win the stuff jar.
@@Trash-Garbage-Trash do you have a actual arguments or you prefer to look crazy with your last comment?
Intersex people exist. They make up 1-2% of the global population. There are SO many ways someone's body can be intersex, from all the different chromosome combinations to hormones not being at the "normal" levels during puberty and adulthood or even just the genitals not being within a certain standard set by doctors, who then will perform unnecessary surgeries to "make" them fit into one box or the other.
There are not two sexes, and that's biological fact.
Baby carriers and seed producers.
i assume that according to your definition the determining characteristic between the two classifications is the number of y chromosomes, and most people can't be sure what their sex or gender is because they haven't taken a dna test? So these are Schrödinger's characteristics, existing in a non-binary superposition until tested.