Practical Androgyny

The Frisky: “Agender”: Neither Man Nor Woman, But Definitely Fabulous

quarridors — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:37:00 -0400

The Frisky: “Agender”: Neither Man Nor Woman, But Definitely Fabulous:

The article also challenges the commonly presented view that androgyny is the only way to present a nonbinary gender.

Excellent and highly recommended response to the flawed NY Mag Agender article from The Frisky:

It’s a common assumption that non-binary people were all assumed female at birth, i.e. born with the body parts we typically associate with girls. With the exception of Pejic, who doesn’t have a pronoun preference and has de-emphasized the importance of gender in interviews, there are few visible examples of assumed-male-at-birth non-binary people. Kopas explained how this narrow POV can harm assumed-male-at-birth people and others who fall outside the typical presentation:

It seems that we’ve started treating the most visible examples of non-binary people as if they represented the full range of ways of being. […] Who does this leave out? People of color, fat people, male-assigned people… As a male-assigned non-binary person, it’s sometimes felt like a struggle for me to have that part of my identity recognized even by other gender-variant folks. People want to place me as either as a man because of my physical features, or a woman because of how I dress or because I’m on [hormone replacement therapy]. But there’s no non-binary uniform or medical regimen — nothing says that someone can’t dress femme and still identify outside of a gender binary. So if non-binary is to mean more than a particular kind of androgynous expression, then we need to talk about the range of ways that it can look and feel.

In short? “Agender” may sound like a tidy little label — but that would be an underestimation of every agender person that you meet.

Read the full article at The Frisky

New York Magazine: Agender Article

quarridors — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:52:47 -0400

New York Magazine: Agender Article:

nonbinary:

The feature article in today’s New York Magazine is on agender, nonbinary and neutrois experience. The article is generally positive, presenting three different people’s experience in their own words.

Debate has ensued on Twitter about the journalist (or editor)’s choice to focus more on bodies than lives and to only feature people coercively assigned female at birth and not comment on the disparity.

Is there are barrier on CAMAB agender or nonbinary identity (or disclosure) that this article’s editorial decisions perpetuate or is it simply voyeuristic and intrusive to focus on the narrative of transition, birth assignment, surgeries and bodies?

neutrois:

A new article about agender / neutrois people came out. I’m featured in the article as Micah. All I’ll say is, it’s tougher than I expected to put yourself out there. Thoughts?

Article extract:

“I didn’t really want nipples,” Cory said, running a hand through a mop of bleached blond hair. Born female, 23-year-old Cory uses the pronoun co—and asked that we refer to co that way, too—and got elective surgery to remove co’s breasts last year. But co is not transgender in the traditional sense, transitioning between female and male. Co wants neither gender. So co joined the ranks of the agender—or, in a more florid recent coinage, the gender neutrois.

“You read stuff on Tumblr about how us nonbinary people just want to be special snowflakes,” explained Cory, who is special but made of sturdier stuff than a snowflake. Was Cory’s desire to remove co’s secondary sexual traits a ploy for attention? A reaction to internalized sexism? The result of sexual repression? “I tackled all that stuff with my therapist. We came to the conclusion that I was not okay with this part of my body. Regardless of where that came from, it was there.” Co has neither breasts nor nipples now.

“It is so perfect,” Cory said. “For me this is what neutral looks like and feels like.”

I found Cory through the #nonbinary #agender #neutrois tags on Tumblr. The social network has become an unofficial home for the gender neutral. Though most group themselves with the transgender community, they reject the narrative of a person born into the wrong, oppositely-gendered body. All five neutrois individuals I spoke to have no need for masculinity or femininity at all.

Full article: NY Mag: Neither Man Nor Woman: Meet the Agender

A gender-neutral third-person pronoun has arisen spontaneously as a part of kids' slang in Baltimore

quarridors — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:24:54 -0400

A gender-neutral third-person pronoun has arisen spontaneously as a part of kids' slang in Baltimore:

2008 article on how teens in Baltimore started using ‘yo’ as a gender neutral third person pronoun (often accompanied by a pointing gesture):

queerandpresentdanger:

“What’s also interesting about the kids’ language is that people — mostly academics — have been trying to introduce a gender-neutral singular pronoun into the English language for about 200 years, with very little success. And then a group of kids in Baltimore just make one up and start using it.”

Grammar Girl: Yo as a Pronoun

"Growing up with Gynecomastia" (or, the Gender Binary bites back)

quarridors — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:05:31 -0400

"Growing up with Gynecomastia" (or, the Gender Binary bites back):

Excellent trans* and genderqueer-friendly article on gynecomastia in The Guardian, exploring what cultural attitudes to ‘moobs’ say about society’s binary view of gender:

neutrois:

Matt Cornell grew up with gynecomastia, a harmless condition that made his school days a misery. From the bullying to the surgery that followed, he looks back on what ‘moobs’ meant to him

This article was very interesting due to Matt’s analysis:

This fixation on “man boobs” reveals our culture’s obsession with binary gender, but we have all the evidence we need that biological sex and gender are not as rigid or fixed as we imagine. There are intersexed people. There are transgender people and genderqueer people. There are millions of men and boys like me with gynecomastia, a medically harmless (though socially lethal) condition. The prevalence of gynecomastia in adolescent boys is estimated to be as low as 4% and as high as 69%. As one article notes, “These differences probably result from variations in what is perceived to be normal.” You think?

nonbinary: An excellent reminder of what the ‘trans*’ umbrella...

quarridors — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:53:53 -0400

nonbinary:

An excellent reminder of what the ‘trans*’ umbrella term covers.

knowhomo:

* Asterisk Uses You Should Know *

Above Graphic:

Sam from It’s Pronounced Metrosexual weighs in on the use of the asterisk in Trans*

(read more here)

Student researcher looking for nonbinary interviewees in Glasgow

quarridors — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:40:14 -0400

Student researcher looking for nonbinary interviewees in Glasgow:

nonbinary:

Signal boosting. Are you nonbinary and live in Glasgow, Scotland?

becomingkeltik:

I’m being interviewed for a study on being trans in Glasgow, the person conducting the study is looking for 2 more people, age ranges early 20s and 50+, non binary identities please! This is her explanation of the study;

“My research is looking into the lived experiences of four transsexuals in Glasgow. I recently interviewed a transwoman who had made Glasgow her new home for another piece of research and arising from this interview I wanted to explore this area more. I really want to get a sense of how transsexuals have created and continue to manage their new identity and overcome the many barriers that society places. The reason I have chosen Glasgow is that it still tends to have a tough image with strong sectarianism in football and a working man’s image of work hard play hard so it can be considered unforgiving with anything and anyone that is considered against the”norm” so to speak. Whether the people I interview are transmen or transwomen I want to explore if Glasgow and Scotland’s culture and history has helped or hindered their transition. I don’t have an end goal in mind I just believe and hope that the more information that is out there about such matters can help educate and hopefully reduce discrimination.”

If you want to get involved, you can contact Fiona at - 1103350K@student.gla.ac.uk

Please share! Thanks.

Gender Neutral Bathroom Challenge

quarridors — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:10:24 -0400

Gender Neutral Bathroom Challenge:

fuckyeahftmsofcolor:

The challenge: Don’t use any gendered bathrooms or change rooms for the month of April.

What are “gendered bathrooms”? Gendered bathrooms are designated for “men” or “women” by a sign. This challenges includes ALL multi-stall and single-stall washrooms, and the bathrooms at work, schools, libraries, bars/restaurants, and everywhere, really.

There are multiple purposes for this challenge:

1) To give people who don’t find going to gendered bathrooms a difficult/unsafe experience a small idea of what it is like for trans and gender variant people to navigate this world. Hopefully, with some real life experience, you will have a broader understanding of how gendered this world really is. But,

DOING THIS DOES NOT GIVE YOU AUTHORITY TO SAY WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE TRANS OR GENDER VARIANT.

2) To inspire people to fight for more gender neutral bathrooms.

Tips:
- Don’t drink a lot of liquid if you are leaving the house for long periods of time
- Try to figure out where some gender neutral bathrooms are in your town/city, and plan your day around using a gender neutral bathroom.
- Remember, you can use gendered bathrooms again in May. Some people can’t.

And, even if you really have to go to the bathroom, try to not see gendered bathrooms as a possible place to go.

If you are interested, feel free to write your experiences down and send them to gnbchallenge@gmail.com. With your permission, they will be included in a zine on the topic of gendered bathrooms.

We also recommend fighting for gender neutral bathrooms in one (or more) public space(s). Often the fight for this aspect of bathroom accessibility is only fought for by trans and gender variant people; It would be nice if other people fought for it too.

(There’s also a Facebook event:https://www.facebook.com/events/209510742488108/)

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PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST!

kyrianne adds:

It would be an interesting caveat to add if you can’t find a gender neutral bathroom, you have to use the one you normally wouldn’t use, but that could cause some actual violence (which happens to trans* people on a regular basis, obviously, but for a thing like this that’s probably not the best ever)

I guess if you want the full experience you could add that to it?

Edited to add: If you missed the show, you can listen to the...

quarridors — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:57:00 -0400

Edited to add: If you missed the show, you can listen to the entire thing on the programme page, Nat joins the conversation at about 45 minutes in, but it’s well worth listening to the entire discussion.

Nat will be taking part in this online radio show on Sunday:

gqid:

Is It a Boy or a Girl? Improving Media Coverage Beyond the Binary

Sunday, March 25 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET

Join us for a radio-style program on how the media covers non-binary and non-conforming gender and what we can do to make that coverage better.

Hosted by Avory Faucette of QueerFeminism.com and Radically Queer, and featuring guests with expertise in gender-neutral parenting, non-binary identities, and media coverage of transgender issues, we’ll be looking closely at some misunderstandings the media makes and how feminists can take action to educate and improve coverage. We’ll consider topics including major media coverage of gender-neutral parenting and education in 2011, the media’s refusal to take supermodel Andrej Pejic’s stated identity seriously, and what articles on genderqueer and other identities get right and wrong. We’ll also be talking about the best way to cover less familiar gender identities, how journalists can describe gender in a way that is less harmful to non-binary or questioning individuals, and how blogs and social media are changing the conversation.

Guests will be:

Arwyn Daemyir, creator of Raising My Boychick;

Marilyn Roxie, creator of Genderqueer Identities and intern at the Center for Sex & Culture;

Gunner Scott, Director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition;

Nat Titman, creator of Practical Androgyny and the Nonbinary.org wiki

To tune in, join us from your computer at 10 am EST on Sunday, March 25. A live stream of the show will appear when we start. You’ll be able to ask questions or chat about the show in the chat room on that page or call in with a question using the guest call-in number listed there. We hope you’ll join the conversation!

This event is part of WAM! It Yourself 2012, a multi-city event by Women, Action & the Media. For more information about events happening all over the world, check here or email Lexi.

"Asking this question is like standing underneath two enormous waterfalls of bright pink and blue..."

quarridors — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:11:48 -0500

“Asking this question is like standing underneath two enormous waterfalls of bright pink and blue paint which are covering you and everybody else with gallon after gallon of gloopy, gloss paint, getting in your eyes and your mouth, stopping you from seeing and breathing, the level is up around your neck, and nearby others are trying to swim and sinking and drowning, and you’re turning to your friend and asking, ‘Hey, was my t-shirt white or pale yellow?’”

- In response to the question, “What does gender mean in the absence of gender roles?”

[Shop window displaying childrens clothes on mannequins. A sign...

quarridors — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:47:07 -0500

[Shop window displaying childrens clothes on mannequins. A sign reads:

‘NOT FOR GIRLS.

NOT FOR BOYS.

We make clothes for children.

POLARN O. PYRET’]

monstermonnie:

gaywrites:

This is not quite new, but UK clothing store Polarn O. Pyret still has the right idea in selling clothes for kids without distinguishing boys’ clothes from girls’ clothes. More on their strategy here.

Perfection.

Historical Gender Neutral Pronouns

quarridors — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:18:39 -0500

Historical Gender Neutral Pronouns:

quarridors:

I can also recommend the Gender Neutral Pronoun FAQ which has been on the net for so long I think I first read it in 1997.

And the Need For A Gender Neutral Pronoun and Comprehensive Links pages (which reminds me that my 2001 article on the subject is currently offline and no longer listed!).

The Epicene Pronouns: A Chronology of the Word That Failed

Androgynous model sought for London-based project

quarridors — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:26:40 -0500

Practical Androgyny has been contacted by Charlotte, a photographer working with a student from the London College of Fashion on a not-for-profit project that aims to challenge people’s perceptions of gender. If you’re in the London area or able to travel there, and you’re of androgynous appearance, please consider volunteering to model for the photoshoot. No experience required.

Our project explores the way that we perceive positions of political power. We will be be portraying a fictional presidential figure in a way that challenges people’s assumptions about gender.

We’re looking to explore the way that traditional images of powerful political figures could be subverted to show a future where ‘the president’ appears to be androgynous - or in some way not fitting in with most people’s expectations of binary gender. We’re looking for someone who could wear the traditional uniform of presidential power (i.e. a smart, dark suit) and present as an extremely attractive individual, without giving the usual cues as to their gender. We’ll be working with a stylist and a makeup artist to achieve the right look, with our model looking as natural as possible.

We’re heavily influenced by models like Andrej Pejic and we’d like to envisage a time where people who subvert the gender norm are in public positions outside the fashion world.

We’re going to shoot on Friday 24th or Saturday 25th of this month in South London and unfortunately, we can’t offer payment or travel expenses. Everyone involved is working on a time-for-images basis, so you’ll get copies of all the final images to use as you see fit.

We very much want to make the best use of the photographs and we are hoping to have them accompany a piece on gender identity for publication and we’d like to offer the whole thing to a magazine as a package on a not-for-profit basis. You need to be comfortable with this and you’ll be asked to sign a standard model release.

If you’re interested in the project and you think the way you look might fit with our creative vision, please send some recent photos to charlotte<at>lyope<dot>com

Please reblog and signal boost this request.

Nonbinary: Nonbinary gender identity and expression outside of the transgender community

quarridors — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:02:52 -0500

Nonbinary: Nonbinary gender identity and expression outside of the transgender community:

Signal boosting this request for examples of nonbinary gender outside of the transgender and genderqueer communities:

nonbinary:

As part of a nonbinary gender visibility project, I’m attempting to track down people who identify and/or express gender outside of the binary (as in something other than woman or man) despite not being involved in mainstream trans* communities.

I’m mainly active in transgender, transsexual and genderqueer communities and, as you’d expect, I know of many nonbinary people through those. These are communities that are primarily about gender transgression (of various kinds) where nonbinary experience is directly on topic.

I’m also active in various queer and (a)sexuality-based communities, most notably the asexual and bi communities and have found those to be supportive of nonbinary identity and expression, and so good places to meet others who don’t fit binary classifications. These are communities that are about sexuality that defies the hetero/homo binary and so tend to be either extremely openminded to nonbinary gender or see it as an overlapping issue. (The pansexual community would obviously fall here too).

And I feel at home and accepted as a nonbinary person at (most) literary science fiction conventions I attend (and other cons with similar feels). There (trans)gender isn’t (usually) the topic of discussion, but members of the community are generally openminded to new ideas and other ways of being, and of course there’s no shortage of science fiction that plays with gender or imagines different models of sex and gender. So this can be seen as part of a third category of community that isn’t about or related to gender transgression, but is open minded and accepting of those expressing a nonbinary gender.

Those are my experiences. What I’m now interested in doing is assembling a list of other communities where people express and find acceptance of their nonbinary genders, preferably those that are not directly related to ‘mainstream’ transgender, genderqueer and transsexual communities.

Based on my research and feedback from others, I’ve assembled the following list of communities that are (or may be) directly related to, or supportive of, nonbinary gender (which again, I’m defining as identifying or living as something other than a woman or a man):

Intersex support groups and activist organisations

Transvestite and crossdresser communities (those not following mainstream transgender narratives of gender identity and dysphoria)

Butch/Femme

Radical faeries

The eunuch and castration communities

Extreme body modification

Kink and fetish communities

Drag and cabaret performer communities

Artist communities, particularly performance art (Burning Man?)

Empowered multiplicity/plurality/median/mid-continuum

Otherkin

Female bodybuilders (perhaps? Cited as gender transgressive in Feinberg’s Trans Liberation)

Goth and similar subcultures (Twitter suggestion)

Certain parts of the pagan community (Twitter suggestion)

(And I should stress, I’m not saying everyone within these communities is nonbinary, any more than I’m suggesting everyone within the trans* community is, just that they may well be home to some people who see themselves as something other than women or men).

Can anyone reading point me towards nonbinary individuals from those communities, or to articles written (or documentaries filmed!) about nonbinary gender within them?

Or can anyone suggest any other communities/subcultures that haven’t been suggested yet that are home to or accepting of people who identify or live as something other than male or female?

I’ve created a page on the nonbinary.org wiki for further examples and supporting information to be recorded. Please comment here or make edits there to add your suggestions and examples:

Nonbinary gender outside of the transgender community

* The asterisk at the end of ‘trans*’ denotes that this is the wider inclusive form of trans that includes all transgender, transsexual, nonbinary, genderqueer, gender variant and gender nonconforming people regardless of gender identity or expression.

Today is UK trans* activist organisation Trans Media...

quarridors — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:13:00 -0500

Today is UK trans* activist organisation Trans Media Action’s Trans Camp event, bringing media and IT professionals together with trans* people to make positive change.

As part of the preparations, trans* people from across the UK were asked to give one minute video responses on the topics of childhood, media, comedy and family.

This is my response to the question of media representation. As a nonbinary person I felt erased or misrepresented by recent media coverage…

I’m nonbinary, that means I live as something other than a woman or a man. It also means I have next to no representation in the media.

Even in documentaries featuring trans* people with genderqueer or gender binary challenging identities or histories, like some of the participants in My Transsexual Summer, these are simplified, glossed over or completely edited out in fear of ‘confusing’ the general public.

If my life experiences are ever touched upon, they’re simplified to the point of misrepresentation. If I’m to be hinted at, it’s in the suggestion that some people are ‘in between’.

My gender and my body are not ‘between’ anything. My gender is not a balancing act. I’m not in the middle ground, I haven’t gone halfway and stopped. I am not half a woman and half a man, I’m not following two sets of sexist stereotypes. I do not ‘pick and choose’ about gender. And I’m not ‘on the fence’. And I’ve definitely not ‘de-transitioned’.

I’m a trans* person, I’m doing what I need to do to be true to myself.

Of course not all nonbinary people object to being described as ‘in between’; that’s an accurate description of some people’s gender identities. But there are many more people besides me whose experiences of being agender, bigender, fluid gender, genderqueer etc are erased by that simplification.

In my case, I experienced gender dysphoria and I did what it was necessary to do to become comfortable with my body. Doing so didn’t fix my social dysphoria though. I tried to be a ‘classic transsexual’, I tried to pretend to be a gender I didn’t truly feel I was. But I found ‘passing’ made me just as socially dysphoric as my assigned gender role had done.

It turned out that transition just wasn’t the perfect ‘package deal’ I’d been sold in the brochure, I had to go off the beaten track to find my own way to authentically express myself to the world.

It would be nice to see this represented in the media at all, especially on TV shows where some of the participants have similar feelings.

(And no, ‘androgyny’ and ‘androgyne’ don’t have to mean ‘in between’; the dictionary definition boils down to ‘having both male and female traits’, and anyway that’s my appearance not my gender).

See further one minute video responses on childhood, comedy and family from an androgynous nonbinary trans* person

Trans Camp: UK Trans Media Action needs your videos

quarridors — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:59:07 -0500

Trans Camp: UK Trans Media Action needs your videos:

Signal boosting:

nonbinary:

The UK trans* activist organisation Trans Media Action is running Trans Camp on January 13th at the offices of Channel 4.

Trans Camp will bring together trans* people, developers, designers and innovators to come up with ideas to improve the lives of trans* people using web technologies and the media.

In order to make sure the widest range of experiences are covered, they’re looking for one minute video responses from trans* people around the UK explaining their experiences:

Although around half of the participants will be trans there will also be people there who have never knowingly come across a trans person.

So, we want your short video responses to one or more of these questions. You can use your phone, webcam or something fancier – it doesn’t matter as long as we can hear you and see you (or whatever you choose to film while you’re speaking or subtitling.)

Your videos will be played at Channel 4 on 13th January to the participants of Trans Camp. They will also be put together on a website for people to see in the run up to the camp and afterwards. Your videos will be public so you must be sure you’re happy for them to be seen by anyone online.

Why? We want to give those who are new to trans issues an idea of the diversity within the trans community. We want to bring to life some of the questions we’re asking with real people’s voices.

QUESTIONS: Answer ONE* question per video – max 1 minute

CHILDHOOD: For those of you who knew, what was it like growing up as a trans child?

MEDIA: How does media coverage of trans people affect you?

COMEDY: How do comedy portrayals of trans people affect you?

FAMILY: How have you experienced support, or lack of, from family and friends?

*You can answer more than one question if you like, just make a separate video.

If you’re in the United Kingdom and trans* nonbinary, genderqueer or otherwise gender variant or gender nonconforming, please consider submitting a video to make sure the full diversity of trans* experiences are represented in this important project.

Full instructions on how to submit your video responses

* The asterisk at the end of ‘trans*’ denotes that this is the wider inclusive form of trans that includes all transgender, transsexual, nonbinary, genderqueer, gender variant and gender nonconforming people regardless of gender identity or expression.

Nonbinary.org Wiki

quarridors — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:20:49 -0500

Nonbinary.org Wiki:

nonbinary:

New year, new web presence! Nonbinary.org now hosts a nonbinary gender community wiki with forums coming soon!

Get involved by expanding stub articles or creating wanted pages.

Survey of nonbinary trans* people's pronoun preferences - Ends soon!

quarridors — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:41:40 -0500

Survey of nonbinary trans* people's pronoun preferences - Ends soon!:

nonbinary:

Signal boosting, and looking forward to reading the results:

anlamasanda:

The survey’s been open for just about six months now, and responses have trickled to just about none, so I will close it a little earlier than the previously planned 31 December. Currently there are about 475 responses! But in case any interested nonbinary trans folks just haven’t seen it yet, I’m making this announcement, and will close the survey this coming Monday the 21st at 11 PM EST.

If you identify as trans* and nonbinary, I’d love to see your input!

Take the short survey on nonbinary pronoun preferences

CN Lester: Trans Beauty: Vocal Edition, Part One

quarridors — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:21:10 -0500

CN Lester: Trans Beauty: Vocal Edition, Part One:

The ever fabulous openly trans* classical singer CN Lester talks about vocal androgyny, sharing classical singing videos highlighting high male/androgynous roles and female tenors, baritones and basses:

Before we proceed – I’m not going start with the voices of trans people (that means you have to come back for part two). I thought, rather, to begin with an introduction to the fact that, contrary to what a very foolish society claims, there is no gender binary in the voice. We sing over it all the time. All the time. Do trust me on this – I know whereof I speak. On average the voice of someone who has been through a testosterone-laden puberty will be capable of lower notes than someone who hasn’t – and vice versa. On average. And the size of the chords is only one factor in what gives each each voice its unique flavour.

I think nothing illustrates this fact quite so spectacularly as my classical speciality – the high male/androgynous role. Doesn’t matter what sex or gender you are, so long as you can make a convincing poet/god/hero/prince/musician/knight/page (or look soulful for the religious music) whilst keeping your sound spinning over a broad and shining range.

…

And have a lovely long look at the work being done by Vivaldi’s Women - where the talents of female tenors, baritones and basses are celebrated rather than ignored.

Read the full post and watch/listen to the videos on CN’s blog

Be aware of Depo-Provera side effects

quarridors — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:03:00 -0400

Be aware of Depo-Provera side effects:

[Discussion of using progesterone-only birth control to stop/limit the menstrual cycle]

clockworktoast:

I’m having piss-all luck in finding information (I didn’t expect there to be much, granted) so I’m putting out a plea for some.

Does anyone have any information or experiences or even just a knowledgeable opinion on coming off of testosterone and onto a progesterone-only form of birth control? I’m not the most educated on hormones and the way things work, mind, so my theory of shut-down ovaries from two years of t + progesterone only pill might keep the periods at bay is possibly woefully inaccurate.

Would love some info or even just a “no, you’re being daft”.

If you mean Depo-Provera or similar as a ‘Progesterone-only form of birth control’, be very wary of this, it’s known to cause side effects that may be extremely undesirable for those wishing to minimise female secondary sexual characteristics (breast growth, loss of androgynous fat distribution, loss of muscle definition, facial changes etc) as well as possible side effects like constant spotting or low level flow throughout the month.

I personally have three friends who took Depo-Provera to prevent periods and ended up considerably more dysphoric as a result of the side effects (admittedly all were pre-T or not planning to take T, not coming off T).

Here’s CN Lester talking about their Depo-Provera experiences

I have no specific knowledge of lower dose pill-based forms of progesterone-only birth control, but it seems likely that side effects may be similar. Does anyone have direct experience?

Practical Androgyny

The Frisky: “Agender”: Neither Man Nor Woman, But Definitely Fabulous

New York Magazine: Agender Article

A gender-neutral third-person pronoun has arisen spontaneously as a part of kids' slang in Baltimore

"Growing up with Gynecomastia" (or, the Gender Binary bites back)

nonbinary: An excellent reminder of what the ‘trans*’ umbrella...

Student researcher looking for nonbinary interviewees in Glasgow

Gender Neutral Bathroom Challenge

Edited to add: If you missed the show, you can listen to the...

Is It a Boy or a Girl? Improving Media Coverage Beyond the Binary

Sunday, March 25 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET

"Asking this question is like standing underneath two enormous waterfalls of bright pink and blue..."

[Shop window displaying childrens clothes on mannequins. A sign...

Historical Gender Neutral Pronouns

Androgynous model sought for London-based project

Nonbinary: Nonbinary gender identity and expression outside of the transgender community

Today is UK trans* activist organisation Trans Media...

Trans Camp: UK Trans Media Action needs your videos

Nonbinary.org Wiki

Survey of nonbinary trans* people's pronoun preferences - Ends soon!

Recommended reading: This is how "gender is all/only performance" is harmful

CN Lester: Trans Beauty: Vocal Edition, Part One

Be aware of Depo-Provera side effects