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Nonbinary Lesbian Answering Questions

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ash2301 · 29/09/2019 19:56

Hi- I'm a nonbinary lesbian teen, and I want to help answer parents' questions about their LGBT+ kids/any other questions you have. Please be respectful, but there's no such thing as a stupid question Smile

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LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 30/09/2019 18:30

non-binary people are real but the concept of non binary is a load of undefinable toss.

MouthyHarpy · 30/09/2019 18:31

From Greenham Common to this...

Makes me despair. What are young women being taught about their history? Women have only had the vote for 90 years.

But I notice this with my undergrads - that they resist any suggestion that I (expert in my field long career) might actually know MORE than them, and that they might learn something if they’d just listen and have some respect.

I think our OP came into MN thinking that she’d show all those boring ignorant mothers a thing or two. And she’s now in retreat.

Imagine! Mothers daring to suggest they might know more about life than a 19 year old!

zebrasdontwearbras · 30/09/2019 18:46

Mouthy - it's ridiculous. They get all these unfounded ideas about sex and gender, "sex is a spectrum" rubbish from bloody tumblr, or some idiotic gender studies module, and think they know it all at 19.

My friend's 19yr old dd told her "this is just the way it is now mum! you'll have to just accept it." - Errr... no!

And I'm still bitter about "gender studies" replacing women's studies, and I find it disturbing that gender identity stuff has completely taken over some areas of academia.

I'm hopeful that factual scientific analysis will take precedence in the longterm, and that this is just a glitch in the matrix.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 30/09/2019 18:54

My old history lecturer know more about feminism than anyone I’d ever met (or have met since). I’m sure we discussed feminism in her lecturers more than history but we loved it (male and female students).

She’d be burned at the stake these days.

LemonGingerCakes · 30/09/2019 19:19

Genitals are observed, but sex is assigned because it's a meaning that we add to those genitals.

Yet every cell in your body will be xx. Therefore female. That is fact, not assigned.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 30/09/2019 19:32

Is that a male penis or a female one? Hmmmm. Does it have a pink bow or a bow tie?

DtPeabodysLoosePants · 30/09/2019 19:42

Don't be sexist or stereotype about the penis LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD Grin

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 30/09/2019 20:35

Hey, if it self IDs itself as an anaconda who am I to argue?

Defenestrator · 02/10/2019 13:47

They never did come back, did they? So much for answering questions. Perhaps they were too immature and intellectually outranked. Hope they're not sitting in a corner somewhere feeling sorry for themselves.

Doyoumind · 02/10/2019 14:02

Hopefully even though they didn't come back they have read the responses.

A young person has their beliefs. As much older women we have a view on it, given our own experience in life and as teenagers.

I have always been quite gender non confirming and as a teenager was a lot more into things my male friends were interested in that my female friends most of the time. I greatly disliked being associated with 'girly' things and am the same now. I wondered what it would be like to have a penis and be a man. But I was just an average teenage girl. Now I'm a just an average middle aged woman. I'm not like lots of the women I know but I'm still a woman.

Whatwouldbigfatfannydo · 02/10/2019 14:09

@ash2301

I'm assigned female at birth, but I could just as easily identify this way and be assigned male at birth.

Em, no you can't. You'd be a straight male if that was the case. As it happens, you're lesbian female. Nothing wrong with either of these but all the other stuff is nonsense..

Whatwouldbigfatfannydo · 02/10/2019 14:13

I should have read further...THIS is even more ridiculous!!

Genitals are observed, but sex is assigned because it's a meaning that we add to those genitals.

Jesus H. Christ Grin

Defenestrator · 02/10/2019 14:46

I too have been gender nonconforming all my life. I used to be called a tomboy when I was little. Best friend was a boy, I hated girly stuff, had short hair, wore wellies and trousers, climbed trees, rode bikes, guddled for trout. My sister baked with mother inside and I mowed the lawn and fixed the cars with dad outside.

Then I grew up. Drank pints of bitter, rode a motorbike, drove a Land Rover, joined the armed forces. Still had short hair and wore trousers and boots.

None of this meant I was not a girl. Always female, always heterosexual. But I would have been 'transed' if I'd grown up now.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 02/10/2019 14:51

My sister would have been ripe for that too. Possibly another sister also - she has a tractor and generally does 'boy stuff' on her farm.

Now my dad and brother both hated football so who the hell knows...

SchnitzelVonKrumm · 02/10/2019 20:19

OP not been back then

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 02/10/2019 20:22

They didn’t exist...

user1498572889 · 02/10/2019 20:28

😂😂😂. I am a big fat heterosexual old woman but I identify as a young slim attractive woman. Shame nobody recognises that description of me.

StormcloakNord · 02/10/2019 20:34

I'm gutted I missed out on this!

I've only ever had one burning question since this whole non binary fad started and nobody not one single person has managed to give me a decent answer for it.

Surely by labelling yourself as non-binary you are affirming the very thing you're trying not to be? By acknowledging you do not feel "female" or "male" then surely you are acknowledging the female/male stereotypes? Otherwise you would just get on with life wearing what you want/looking how you like and just being 'you'.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 02/10/2019 21:12

Can’t we just stop saying ‘self ID’ and say ‘pretending’. Save a lot of hassle.

RushianDisney · 02/10/2019 21:26

If being female/a woman is simply an identity and has no basis in material reality or biology, then why do all the millions of girls across the world denied an education based on their femaleness not simply identify as male or nonbinary? They can't, and they will be disadvantaged for life because gender identity counts for shit all in the vast majority of the world. You cannot identify your way out of sex based oppression.

I find the whole gender identity thing really distasteful, ridiculous peacocking and oppression olympics from the most privileged people who have ever exsisted on the planet.

Just be you, you don't need to label yourself with zeitgeist-y woke terminology. You are a young lesbian, own it

rededucator · 02/10/2019 21:46

What's the 1/3 male part? You like football and know how to put up a shelf? Hmm I find that a bit sexist

rededucator · 02/10/2019 21:47

Far from being liberal and some I think your backwards and anti feminist

rededucator · 02/10/2019 21:54

*'woke'

Findumdum1 · 03/10/2019 15:39

I find the whole gender identity thing really distasteful, ridiculous peacocking and oppression olympics from the most privileged people who have ever exsisted on the planet.

This, this, a billion times this.

I was in West Africa recently. The people there don't have the luxury of worrting about what gender they are.

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