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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 7440010">Bolded for emphais.  Ah, ya found me out.  The "standard analysis" as you call is it fine for producing a narrow range of alternatives based on definitions set forth from the binaries.  The problem therein lies of course with the definition of the binaries which, as most binaries go, are highly polarized.  Being male means Y and being female means X.  Identifying as cis means A and identifying as trans means B.  Typically framing it in a "Identifying as cis means you are..." while the opposite is identified with a negative, being trans means "you are not..."  That's generally what happens when you have two binary elements.  Being one means you are not the other.  People don't buck the system for a number of reasons.For example, the homosexual community relies heavily on sex and orientation binaries.  This is why there are often tiffs between homosexuals and more gender and sex fluid elements of the LGBT+ community.  The first part is important because it has allowed themselves to define themselves as a distinct group, based on how they are not heterosexual.  The second part is an expected result of hard binary positions: everyone who isn't gets tossed under the same bus, much in the same way heterosexuals see homosexuals as "other".  For some transgendered individuals, the binary is equally useful to identify what they are not and what they are.  For others, it's not because they're  A: not sure.  B: somewhere in the middle.  C: generally disinterested in the binary dynamic.  The binary can also be used as a political tool, to once again: define who is what and who isn't what.That's kinda the problem, and kinda my rejection of the standard analysis, it just relies too heavily on that binary and produces incomplete analysis of what I see as a rather ridiculously multi-faceted subject.I don't mind people misunderstanding and thinking I'm crazy.  I probably am.  But the general level of understanding of gender and sex identity issues is so poor, if I worried about people understanding what I was talking about, I'd go crazy!</blockquote>

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