made a quick edit just fwiw. yeah i do think the online perception of NBs is quite pigeonholing and not representative of many of us. i don’t think there is a set of signifiers and stuff that makes up “NB style” or whatever despite what picture online paints. like not all of us have undercuts and a lil moustache, obviously. that’s just one flavour of a literally infinite number which has gained traction online. if it is becoming a third gender with predictable qualities (and maybe that’s an argument that you could make at least that the perception of NBs is taking that shape (but that’s probably a cisnormative perception cause online still be like that)), i reject that too. and yea for the last thing i just wanted to be inclusive of trans folks who don’t id as NB but something else like agender maybe. but i do think binary trans ppl are kind of destroying gender in their own way too, there’s a reason patriarchal gender binary society is so scared of them. i think it was in the afterword of Nevada i was reading recently where the author is like “the cisnormative view of transition is that you are one of The Two Genders, a process occurs, and then you are the other of The Two Genders”. i think even for most self-id “binary” trans folks its a bit more complex than that and some deconstruction inevitably occurs. but im super non binary so dont wanna speak on their experiences, it is an assumption. sorry its an unstructured mess its late where i am n just banging out thoughts

this gave me a lot of thoughts, so thank you. i now wanna expand this into how the pigeonholing of NBs into simply a New Third Gender is a symptom of capital and specifically the culture industry absorbing new aspects of queerness into the mainstream, but only the ones that aren’t too weird of course. I mean in a cisnormative view NBs still aren’t even real, they’re just like spicy male and spicy female or whatever. even see some queer people buying into that shit unfortunately:( destroying the binary is gonna be Hard!