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Anyone else feel like the complete dismissal of AMAB non-binary people from anyone's consideration or analysis has EXTREME parallels and similarities with the long-pervasive attitude that bisexual men simply don't exist? It feels like "non-binary people are always AFAB" is just…
…the new spin on the old "bisexuality only pertains to women" myth. Patriarchy means people think of maleness as an ABSOLUTE identity. If you're male, or being misgendered or inappropriately regarded as male, then your sexuality or gender can only be ONE THING. No ambiguities…
…or liminalities allowed. To be allowed any subtleties to your identity or sexuality in people's perceptions, you need to successfully shed maleness in those perceptions. This even applies to some of the ways trans women are seen differently from trans men, and how trans…
…women's sexualities and gender expressions are policed, and how terves tend to see trans women as inherently and inalterable men AND trans men as irreparably no longer women SIMULTANEOUSLY.
(the "lesbian extinction" narrative, once again making the rounds this weekend, relies on that, btw: the idea that dating a trans woman isn't lesbianism because they're "really men" AND that someone transitioning to manhood is a "loss" of a lesbian. See the contradiction?)
