It seems to me that in order to cater for all, we are overcomplicating things to an absurd degree.
I am with postpic200 on this. Simplify. Wear whatever clothes you want, and figure out who you like. Hopefully they will like you too and you can form a relationship. Everything else is bullshit that doesn’t matter.
I’ll just leave this here, right before I bugger off this thread.
It’s no surprise that you’d cite somebody equally ignorant in support of your own ignorance. She insists (where have I seen that before) that gender identity is not a mental state, with nothing whatsoever to back up her opinion. I feel that the way other people feel is invalid is not a compelling argument.
And then this utterly distasteful rhetoric in support of her transphobia:
Not that it’s relevant to gender identity, but presumably she’s unaware that men get breast cancer too?
The nice thing about TERFs is that the only thing that exceeds their bigotry is their fundamental stupidity. The woman who wrote that article, aside from being a deeply shitty person, also appears to be dumber than a bag of hair.
Not to mention the whole, “My therapist was shocked when I told her I wanted a double masectomy! This proves she’s not a real woman!” Right. That would be a totally unnatural reaction from a ciswoman, because ciswomen, generally speaking, are super gung-ho about getting their tits removed. That’s totally not her own personal hang-up that she projecting onto the larger population in a deranged attempt to justify her own bigotry.
First, I agree with Riemann. Ignorant transphobia.
I agree with a few other posters that the terminology proposed by the OP makes sense only to the OP and is clunky besides.
I agree with Postpic200 and GuanoLad that not caring is a great step in the right direction.
Every year, I go the Henri David Ball. It's a WONDERFUL Halloween party. As it's a very LGBTQIA event, it's often unclear what people identify as. As I've had a girl friend for the past few years, the odds of my having sex with anybody else I meet there are low (if Salma Hayek or Grace Jones show up, I get a pass. Fingers crossed for this year!). Last year, my girlfriend asked me if I found any of the women attractive. I mentioned that the woman in the latex Catwoman outfit was rather nice. Later, the same Catwoman went on stage for the Female Impersonator category. So, I'd been turned on by some one who identified as male. My girlfriend said "That was a man!" I shrugged and said "What are ya gonna do?". That was the extent of my reaction.Thank you, Emma Thompson. You put it so much better.