• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
      23·
      1 year ago

      Enby kinda covers everything, right? I don’t think the genderfluid folk would be offended by an “enby” label but better to leave the option in, I guess.

      • Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        7·
        1 year ago

        I agree on Enbys covering essentially everything. My comment was supposed to be some joke, since on Fedi we actually are very diverse, which is super cool.

    • Autumn64@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      12·
      1 year ago

      It’s been 8 hours since the poll started, maybe somebody has already voted the “Other” option.

      EDIT: Yep. I just checked and 4 people have voted “Other” so far.

  • Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    14·
    1 year ago

    This checks out. I was cismale until I joined Lemmy and got hatched by the Blåhaj Zone. Now I can write sentences like the preceding one without even flinching.

    • JokklMaster@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      It’s because it is. The short version is because it’s socially acceptable for a woman to be somewhat masculine but it’s not socially acceptable for a man to be feminine. A man wearing makeup, a dress, etc. stands out way more than a woman wearing a suit, jeans, etc. It is believed that this results in higher rates of transwomen. Obviously this is an oversimplified explanation, but it’s the gist of it.

      Source: Multiple degrees in psychology.

    • haikunaaa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      6·
      1 year ago

      If you’re just talking about the fediverse, it’s probably because a lot of us (MtF’s I mean) got interested in things like tech at a young age, and that interest just persisted into adulthood. Interests like that aren’t pushed as much to people raised as girls, so a lot of FtM people don’t really get into it, if they even have the chance to try it at all.

      If you mean society as a whole, well there are a lot of reasons. A big one imo is media representation. Every single sitcom had a trans girl character at some point, but the only one I could think of that had a trans guy before the 2000s was the Golden Girls.

      • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        ngl I’ve been looking into this recently and its actually kinda the opposite in most countries - considering usual misogynistic societies a women would be ‘improved’ as a man and the opposite vise versa.

        Hence why we have like Pocahontas a while back but not really mtf equivalents (at least that I can think of, and aren’t just the butt end of a joke).

        But nowadays the mtf’s are finally able to be themselves so I feel like were seeing a wave of relief in the community that’s always been there (just repressed af)