The following is a great video explaining what it means to be transgender and covering many terms related to the gender-variant community. Great resource, for trans people and allies.
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Where did the narrator get his pronunciations from? A lot of them seem a bit off from what I'm familiar with.
Not sure, which pronunciations are you referring to? I watched the video a few days ago, but one or two seemed off to me. Overall I think the video was good.
Androgyne was the one I remember most. There were a few others, too.
Yes, I remember that one was weird. It sounded a bit alien, and I never pronounce it that way.
That video is all wrong. I have to disagree with that that video says. The fact that intersex is not transgender, they are conflating the two and mixing up intersex with transgender.
She pronounces androgyne like androgyny(an-drodge-en-e) AND andro-gyne (guy-n). The latter being a noun (someone who embodies both masc & feminine characteristics, or someone who displays neither as the dominant gender... and androgyny as the state of being an androgyne
Do I have that right?
I don't have streaming video capacity on my stone-knife-and-bearskin computer, but I do have a question for anyone who might be interested in answering.
I write.
I have two novellas where there is some gender variance.
In one, a character lives as a man, to the point of shaving daily and peeing standing up. When she has sex, she bottoms as a man for men, and only kisses women. Once she is discovered to be female, she is very female, if very butch. Would this be considered simply cross-dressing or gender-queer.
In the other, a young man has been raised female since early childhood. Because of delicate features and women's fashion (wimples hide much), he is able to pass. Even after revealing he is indeed the late king's son, he continues to live as a woman to the point of remaining married to his beloved earl. Is this plausible? Could this be considered transgender?
I think a lot of gender variance can be considered transgender, because cross-dressing and genderqueer also fall under the trans umbrella.
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