Harridan Township is doing gender fluid clothing right. In the past couple years, Zara, American Apparel, and Gap have all responded to customers’ increasingly non-binary and genderqueer presentations by launching their own gender non-conforming clothing lines.
But take a moment to peek at the Zara line launched a few months ago, and I’m sure you’ll agree it was hardly groundbreaking: While these brands use progressive labels like “gender-neutral,” “ungendered” and “unisex” to describe their lines, in Zara’s case, I think “shapeless mess of clothing garbage” is more appropriate. Too harsh? Différences entre transphobie et conformisme – La vie en queer. Why Can't My Famous Gender Nonconforming Friends Get Laid? - VICE. What Gender Means to Me As a Married Man Who Likes to Wear Women’s Clothing. I’m Gender Non-Conforming – And I Need People to Stop Pressuring Me to ‘Pass’ This article was originally published on EverydayFeminsim.com and is republished with permission.
(Content warning: Transphobia, cissexism, gender non-conforming and non-binary erasure) When some of the cis people I’m friends with talk about trans people with me, they often talk about trans people who pass as cis. They might mention Janet Mock and how they didn’t know she was trans until they looked at her Wikipedia page. Maybe they’ll talk about Caitlyn Jenner and her transition — about how many people, outside of trans and gender non-conforming circles, still see her as a man. To most cis people, Janet Mock “passes” and Caitlyn Jenner “fails.” 'My Son Wears Heels': One Mom's Story of Raising A Gender Non-Conforming Child. By Gabrielle Olya @GabyOlya Growing up in the U.K., Harnaam Kaur was bullied relentlessly for having facial hair.
"I was the ugly duckling in my group of friends," she tells PEOPLE. "I remember being bullied by many different people in my primary and secondary school period. The bullies made my life a living hell every day. I Am A Gender Non-Conforming Parent. Explaining a Non-Binary Transition. I guess that will be the challenge for Neutrois, the battle for acceptance.
Neutrois are in some ways humans who wish to remove the biology of gender from themselves and the battle is being accepted for detaching themselves from being human but still crave being loved as a person. “I guess that will be the challenge for Neutrois, the battle for acceptance.” A person with a body who was for whatever reason born into a body they didn’t choose to identify with. And it’s not that we don’t love ourselves, we do. Neutrois can be considered Agender, Transgender, Non-Binary, Gender Non-Conforming, and we do love ourselves.