Hellfire103@sopuli.xyz to LGBTQ+@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoHow do I explain non-binary gender to right-leaning 70-year-old grandparents?message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1message-squareHow do I explain non-binary gender to right-leaning 70-year-old grandparents?Hellfire103@sopuli.xyz to LGBTQ+@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareMaungaHikoi@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago“Someone who doesn’t want to be 100% a man or 100% a woman. Imagine gender wasn’t a single choice, but a slider from 100% fem to 100% masc, and you could pick where it sat each day.” I’m missing stuff but that’s how I would explain it to my nana.
minus-squareBeardedSingleMalt@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIs there a way to mix in the old concept of Tomboy into the conversation since that’s something older folks would maybe understand?
minus-squareSuperpillow@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThis popped in my head the other day when I was randomly thinking about how non-binary identities have existed since before everyone called it that.
“Someone who doesn’t want to be 100% a man or 100% a woman. Imagine gender wasn’t a single choice, but a slider from 100% fem to 100% masc, and you could pick where it sat each day.”
I’m missing stuff but that’s how I would explain it to my nana.
Is there a way to mix in the old concept of Tomboy into the conversation since that’s something older folks would maybe understand?
This popped in my head the other day when I was randomly thinking about how non-binary identities have existed since before everyone called it that.