Roger-Luc Chayer
I start writing this article by frankly telling you that I am entering into a very confused subject that includes a multitude of variants that I will try to explain to you and that I am doing my training on the subject as and when this writing. For some time now, we have been hearing more and more about the fluidity of genres, of cis, asexual people, and all this is already adding to the confusion caused by transitude. Some will speak of a fashion for young people seeking their identity, while others will tell us that it is the expression of a multitude of facets of sexual identity and that it is only thanks to the media. that we can talk about it more openly. Who is right? There is no question!
According to Wikipedia, « the non-binary expression or genderqueer refers to people whose gender identity is neither male nor female in the social science concept of gender. The non-binary is opposed to the binary gender and the hierarchy of genres that can accompany it (such as patriarchy or matriarchy). It also challenges sexual assignment to a given gender. Non-binary gender identity refers to how the person feels, while androgyny refers to appearance (how others see it) and intersex refers to sexual characteristics (anatomical, chromosomal, etc.). .): So there are three entirely different things. In addition, gender identity is independent of sexual orientation: all people, including those who consider themselves non-binary, may be heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual or pansexual. « Well, I’m starting to understand .. In fact, the fluidity of genres is much more of a social concept than
medical reality and in the extreme, it could even be a political movement! It follows that people who define themselves as non-binary claim the use of new pronouns that exclude masculinity or femininity simply. For example, in French, there is no gender neutral but some people use neutral personal pronouns « on », « iels », « illes », « iel », « ul » or « ele ». The use of these neologisms and any other form of epicene language is rejected by the French Academy, for the moment.
According to non-binary people, it is a question of defining oneself as individuals whose gender identity or expression is not fixed and changes over time depending on the situation. In fact, we can not really speak of a non-binary community as a homosexual or heterosexual community because the definitions change according to the people who are consulted. There is no consensus on how to define these emotional and affective variants other than to systematically exclude any health condition or medical problem.
Which brings us back again and again to the famous question: A trans, it becomes trans during the transition and it stops from the moment when the transition is complete? Again, no one can really answer this question because for some people, the transition is complete even if the sex change operations are not performed. Does a person stop becoming trans at the end of his career? All the answers are good … Now that you are even more confused than in the beginning, write to us if you have any answers to edito@gayglobe.net