I just had to address this search query I noticed that directed someone to Genderqueer Identities. Here goes:
Short answer is no. Implying that everyone is genderqueer is similarly incorrect (and even harmful) as implying that everyone is “really” bisexual or pansexual. Monosexualities, monoromantic attraction, and identifying as a man or a woman all are equally valid as the identities referred to above. It is incorrect to assume that people with one identity or one area of attraction are not being true to themselves in some way. It is as incorrect as assuming that bisexual or pansexual people are “really” heterosexual or homosexual, or assuming that genderqueer people are “really” men or women.
The way that certain identities are interpreted as queer or non-normative is dependent upon past and present understandings of sexuality and gender; no identities are intrinsically “subversive”. Stripping away our understanding of queer leaves the identities that being genderqueer is associated with, including androgyne, bigender, gender fluid, and neutrois. Identifying as two genders, being fluid or fixed with one or more genders, and identifying as a neutral gender or without gender are rather different experiences from identifying as one gender, and vice versa.
Understanding these identities as they are, the reality is that some people identify as one gender (whether associated with the binary or not), some as two, some as more. Some people want or need to modify their appearance, whether it be with clothes, implements like breast forms, binders, and packers, or with hormones and medical procedures. Some people don’t or aren’t sure. Some people are attracted to one sex or gender. Some people are attracted to more than one.
Understand that there are now and will continue to be a diverse array of possibilities for gender, sex, and sexuality identification. The binary is the probem, the assumption that there are only men and women, and the binary of sexualities in which there are only heterosexuals and homosexuals. The identities so often figured as guilty-by-association with the binary are not actually the problem and they are as valid as those identities described as non-binary or queer; the assumption that only two gender identities, or only two sexualities (or, unfortunately common, only heterosexuality) exist is the problem.
Check out Working it Out’s section on “But isn’t everyone really bisexual?” and Bi radical’s Words, binary, and biphobia for more background on my answer.
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I didn’t get to read this all the way through @_@ Skimmed, but this is d(-.-)b Good info
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genderqueer, then nobody is. Click
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bad sign. Everyone...be. No exceptions,...no apologies...
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transgender really’ sentiments.
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very much needed. No,...everyone is/should be...polyamorous....
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