The following example offers a way to better understand some of the identities we have discussed so far.
Let's imagine someone asks, "Are you male or female?"
Remember, someone's gender and biological sex aren't the same thing, and they don't always align.
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"Gender Identity and Biological Sex" discussed genderfluid and agender identities, and their associated pride flags.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/10/gender-identity-and-biological-sex.html
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This ongoing thread about the nonbinary identities genderfluid and agender, can be read as an article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/04/genderfluid-and-agender.html
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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.21 — Do you create for a certain niche or do you hope to have as broad an appeal as possible?
"Creating for" and "generally writing in" are two different things. I have an aversion to heavily researching things (bore-ing), which means I can't write historical, detective, military, modern settings, or hard sf. Too many things I can get wrong, and will! A story for me always needs be set in a place and time where I, as was once said so eloquently, "…We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical…"
This generally means I'm writing soft or social SF or I am writing fantasy that had more in kin with Theodore Sturgeon than Tolkien. If you can say I write to a particular niche, my stories will appeal to readers who enjoy female protagonists and feminist messages where the effect of gender roles play an important role. I don't consider that to be a "broad" appeal, but I think my writing ought appeal to SF and Fantasy readers, though maybe not hard SF fans.
As for my photography, I go for eye contact, dramatic color, and/or stateliness. I have no idea whether any of it is appealing. What do you think of the attached picture?
As for my cooking creations, I appeal to an audience of one, though sometimes two. My spouse approves. Check out my media tab on my profile for photos.
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This ongoing thread about the performance of genderfluid and agender in the Gender Census, can be read as an article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/04/genderfluid-and-agender.html
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Excerpt from diseased pope Francis' stance on gender: “Desiring a personal self-determination, as gender theory [what the fuck even is that] prescribes, amounts to a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God.”
So, that's what they're scared of. Determining your own self? Oh my, that's playing God! You can't do that! You need to suffer like the meaningless little sack of flesh that you are!
Well, I say; live a little! Become God. Choose your own destiny. Brew your own custom gender. Heck, grow boobs, or a beard, if you like that shit. Or stay as you are, if that's your thing. Do whatever you damn well please. Don't let any dead motherfucker tell you how to live. Fuck yeah! 
For a basic introduction to terms and concepts related to transgender and nonbinary identity, you can read Gender Identity and Biological Sex.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/10/gender-identity-and-biological-sex.html
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The article is part of Season 3 of “LGBT by the Numbers.”
Season 3 explores the results of the Gender Census, an annual online global survey of nonbinary people.
Nonbinary describes someone who has a gender identity that isn’t exclusively male or female.
The series examines how the popularity of various nonbinary identity terms has changed over the past decade.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/10/lgbt-by-numbers-season-3.html
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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.20 — Is there a movie that inspires your creative work?
Not in general, but I did write a very emotionally difficult story after watching The Edge of Tommorrow: Live, Die, Repeat, based on a manga, and if you are well read in SF you'll know its not an original plot devise either, but the movie is extremely well done Hollywood SF, possibly one of the best for sticking to the SF premise and not mucking it up to dumb it down or make it more artistic.
Anyway. I wrote a story about a teenage girl (maybe 13) who could literally cut off her past with scissors and relive it, and does so repeatedly to save lives, and shows evidence of PTSD when explaining it to her friend. It might have been titled, Cuts Deeply. The story was well received. I have an idea for a more epic version of the story, which I may write at a later date.
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#WordWeavers 2504.21 — Is there anything that bores you about any of your characters?
Wait? Isn't that the stuff you're supposed to leave out?
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.21 — In honor of @johnhowesauthor who doesn’t really like coffee: what “established” writerly traits don’t really apply to you?
Forgive me for inverting this question. I like positivity.
Enough fun. Forgive me. Please!
More in #altText.
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“Even with his many groundbreaking milestones, Pope Francis did have areas where his welcome was not as wide as it could have been. In the area of gender identity and transgender issues, the pontiff adhered closely to the male-female gender binary, referring to any newer understandings of gender identity as ‘gender ideology’ or ‘ideological colonization.’”
~ Francis DeBernardo
#PopeFrancis #gender #trans
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https://www.newwaysministry.org/2025/04/21/pope-francis-was-a-gift-to-lgbtq-people/
Schade, dass Papst Franziskus heute gestorben ist. Ich fand es bemerkenswert, wie er in kleinen Schritten die kath. Kirche verändert hat, ohne dabei eine Kirchenspaltung zu forcieren. Auch im Blick auf LGBT* Personen habe ich manches mitbekommen, was ich positiv fand (https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/segnung-homosexuelle-erlaubnis-papst-franziskus-vatikan-100.html), auch wenn wir (@claudia_haupt, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schreiber und ich) in einem Artikel für das hessische Pfarrblatt die Vorstellungen von trans* Personen kritisiert haben ("Wer hat Angst vorm bösen Gender" hier im Download zur Verfügung: https://www.familie-zwoelfer.de/downloads).
@scatty_hannah@queer.party @michaela@meerjungfrauengrotte.de @claudia_haupt
#Papst #Gender #transrightsarehumanrights #Franziskus #Enzyklika #Kritik
When we talk about health research, we usually stick to two biological sexes: male and female. But this ignores many important factors for our health and well-being, including gender.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/gender-in-health-research-why-it-matters-be5fd3b0f296
CONSERVATIVE MORALITY?
"The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.
Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual
liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime.
Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered."
(Kevin D. Roberts, Foreword to Project 2025)
So conservatives think that "transgender" is inherently "pornographic"?
PS Why is it conservatives who are always arrested for forcing their exposed dick on someone?
Jakarta’s free public transport for women on Kartini Day shows how cities can prioritize gender equity in mobility.
via Xitter @jakpost
Also, nur damit ich es richtig verstehe. Das hier ist dieser "sympathische Reformer" und "Anwalt der Armen" wegen dem jetzt wieder alle Anteilnahme heucheln?
#PennedPossibilities 649 2/2 — What research did you conduct for your WIP, and did you uncover anything surprising or fascinating?
This answer, however, should interest any authors wanting to learn something from another authors' search behavior. I finally got completely feed up with the substandard results from DuckDuckGo and the on again off again AI search creeping into Google results, even with &udm=14.
A few days ago I decided to research paid search. All FREE search, it goes without saying, monetizes your behavior, time, or attention, so I understand it isn't free. How much do you make per hour? When I search for anything that could be construed as a product or service someone could SELL, it's impossible to find answers. Look for words for describing how to rock a baby, for example. I'm sure you've a slew of searches you've given up on.
I am trialing kagi.com. I am NOT advertising it; I'm not endorsing it. I've only tried two searches of the 100 allocated me so far. However, those two have been so full of useful results that I'm still mining them the next day.
I'll report back after I use it more.
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#PennedPossibilities 649 — What research did you conduct for your WIP, and did you uncover anything surprising or fascinating?
When you are writing 31 chapters in 31 days and posting a chapter a day, having only come up with the idea and character the day before starting, research is a concept dealt with by quick and dirty searches. I did have one interesting factino in my pocket, though. I'd found an article about growing fungus to make building blocks for construction on Mars, and knew the blocks might help repel radiation. Another recent article spoke about inflating a balloon for a habitat. I combined both ideas in the 4th chapter titled Glue. Beyond that, I spent quite a bit of time Googling things about 16 Psyche (an asteroid) and learned that Martian dust is poisonous, and like moon dust, pernicious. Recent NASA tests lofted by a private company to the moon proves that electostatic grids can capture or repel dust. I used that. Much of the rest of the technology I punted on. I realized green minerals on Mars might be rare, so I backtracked on some red-green-black ferric metaphors. Yesterday, I read up on planetary transfer orbits and made changes to the revised novel. I also learned about the Lunar Gateway space station concept, and will revise that concept when I get to revising the relevant chapter.
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If you are in the group of men who think gender equality has “gone too far”, please punch yourself in the neck and disappear into a dark cave where you belong.
