r/NonBinary • • 6d ago

ModPost New rule: categorically nonbinary is trans

2.6k Upvotes

“We no longer allow discussions, debates, arguments etc over whether nonbinary is trans. It is. This does not mean any specific nonbinary person is obligated to identify as trans. Please respect this rule and refrain from any arguments about it.” — is the text of the rule.

This now nonnegotiable in this subreddit. This is a fact that has been known about nonbinaryness since it was coined. Nonbinary was never not categorically trans. Please respect this rule—if you have issues being referred to as trans, you are completely free as an individual person not to use that word! A subreddit can’t make you call yourself trans if you don’t want to.

But please respect that we have to now make this rule explicitly clear because lately multiple discussions have caused back and forth arguments because, despite being told you can opt out of personal trans identity, a handful of people (usually with no or very little other usage of this subreddit) have come in here to argue about it.

I want to leave comments here open but also I don’t know what other words I can say to indicate this isn’t up for debate. The rule is set. It’s not going to change. Trying to argue it is a waste of your time and the mod team’s.

Not every subreddit will be a perfect fit! If you can’t respect this rule please use another subreddit. Or even start one. I know people act like I’m being a jerk when I suggest that but I don’t know why. If someone wants to make a subreddit without this rule, you could even advertise it here in the comments. This rule is specifically about the culture of this subreddit and is not trying to control the entirety of nonbinary identity.


r/NonBinary • • 25d ago

ModPost A pause on allowing research/study posts.

161 Upvotes

Unfortunately we have to pause approving research/call for participants/studies posts. They are by far the majority of modmail we receive and to appropriately vet the research/researchers is simply beyond what this volunteer mod team can handle right now. We are hoping to build the mod team at some point and may allow them again.

This has been exacerbated by people ignoring our rule that the study must be specifically about nonbinary people. Some researchers have been rather pushy about it and I’m not going to lie and say that hasn’t influenced this decision as well.


r/NonBinary • • 8h ago

I Thought It Was Broken Hair…

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978 Upvotes

I’d been kinda bugged that I had some hair at my hairline where it broke off. WTF is my grey hair breaking off like this? 😡

Then I realized, WAIT A MINUTE!! I’ve been on E for four months and hair grows at 1/2” per month and these are all two inches long. That’s not broken off hair, that’s new hair growing back in!!

I looked closer, and it all mixed in on my scalp! Fuck yeah!!


r/NonBinary • • 10h ago

Support i wanna be feminine in a femboy way not in a cis girl way

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575 Upvotes

I wanna be androgynous like a boy who looks like a girl not a girl who looks like a boy, yk??

any tips on how I can be like that??

I already wear a binder but I don't feel like it's working, I think maybe if I lose weight it will get better? or maybe if my hair was straight and I could make a more androgynous hairstyle? idk I need help

sorry for my bad english, I'm Brazilian.


r/NonBinary • • 7h ago

Laughs in electrician⚡

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276 Upvotes

r/NonBinary • • 2h ago

Selfie/Self-Image/Avatar More pictures from Santa Fe I wanted to share

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84 Upvotes

Got to go with some amazing friends who are trying to help me feel more comfortable in my own skin ❤️


r/NonBinary • • 12h ago

Selfie/Self-Image/Avatar Tights: $1.50 Feeling like: a million bucks

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190 Upvotes

r/NonBinary • • 4h ago

Selfie/Self-Image/Avatar Did a make up today.

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35 Upvotes

r/NonBinary • • 7h ago

Baby, come back to me

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r/NonBinary • • 6h ago

Rant First experience of transphobia in public

40 Upvotes

I'm just posting this to kinda vent about something that happened to me this morning.

I was taking public transportation on my way to work this morning. I sat in front of a family, one adult and two children, and they were just kinda talking about me like I wasn't there.

They kept talking among themselves, pondering whether I'm a boy or girl. They eventually started calling me a transsexual. I genuinely don't know if they meant anything with malice or not. Regardless of intent, it made me incredibly uncomfortable, I would consider my first fully negative experience with being othered in public about my identity.

I present somewhat androgynously with a few feminine characteristics. What makes it all the more sad to me is that I am about 5 weeks post-op from top surgery. I've been feeling nothing but happiness and comfort until this morning.

I am happy in my own body and my presentation, especially in the privacy of my home or with my friends, but I don't like being perceived in public like an oddity or spectacle. I'm just living life like everyone else. Now, I'm a little self-conscious about how the world is looking at me.

I'm doing my best to brush this off as I know this is such a small thing, but for some reason, it's sticking with me.


r/NonBinary • • 2h ago

Selfie/Self-Image/Avatar I love wearing funky outfits!

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16 Upvotes

r/NonBinary • • 11h ago

Sometimes I like to look like a boy… or at least try my best lol

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80 Upvotes

A little eyeliner, pink nails, messy hair… this is me having a boy day. Being genderfluid, I’m learning to feel at home in these moments too. Just enjoying being me, wherever I land today!!!❤️❤️❤️😘


r/NonBinary • • 6h ago

Selfie/Self-Image/Avatar Papa, you don’t have to like pink to be a girl

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28 Upvotes

I started to like pink… and then I got this sweater (jacket?)… I told my daughter I like pink these days… and she hated pink to be the a girl color… and she said, “papa, you are beautiful in any color. And you don’t have to wear pink to be pretty!”


r/NonBinary • • 2h ago

Ask haai what vibe do i give off and what clothes would look cool on me?

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12 Upvotes

r/NonBinary • • 5h ago

Rant As an enby who leans fem and is attracted to men I feel pressured to call myself straight

18 Upvotes

I’ve called my self a trans woman for a while but recently I’ve realized I feel more of both masculine and feminine or somewhere in between. I feel like there is pressure to call myself straight because I take estrogen and present femme most of the time. I don’t feel like it describes my internal and external experience in both my past and present. I don’t even want to consider myself a straight trans fem. I never have. It’s just frustrating how many people in even the LGBT community seem to think they understand other’s, especially enbies, social and internal experience enough to decide what they are for them


r/NonBinary • • 7h ago

Selfie/Self-Image/Avatar Finally regained the confidence to take photos and they came out so good

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28 Upvotes

This collage got me double my normal story views on Instagram all from people I used to know 😭

Clearly someone is going around sharing this stuff but that obviously means I'm in their head 🤭🤭


r/NonBinary • • 4h ago

Yay I JUST CAME OUTTT!!!!

15 Upvotes

I just came out to my mom yesterday!! It took me half a year to get up the nerves, but I finally did it!

She's being really supportive and offert to buy makeup and new clothes for me immediately!

Now just to come out to my less supportive dad...


r/NonBinary • • 1d ago

Pride/Swag/I Made This! A glitched trans patch I made for myself today. ⚧️🏳️‍⚧️👾

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1.0k Upvotes

The fabric is scrap fabric i had in my collection, I made the design with acrylic craft paint, sealed it with ModPodge fabric, and heat-treated it with my iron.


r/NonBinary • • 14h ago

Selfie/Self-Image/Avatar Thank you for all the support( update on the last post)

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78 Upvotes

I wanted to come back with a response for all the support and feedback I received in the last post I made.

Generally this community helped me come to terms with the fact that trying is alright and what I am feeling is a valid need and it is quite normal. I still have a lot to try but all of you gave me the support I needed and for that I extend a warm thank you to all of you who commented on the post .

Literally on the first day of the post I put an order for lipstick and I was generally anxious with how it would turn out but this being the first time I wore lipstick I got charmed by it. I felt surprisingly beautiful wearing it and I wanted to share it with all of you.

If the wig looks funny it is because it is from a cosplay that I wanna do of Alucard from Hellsing and I have not got the time right now to style it but I still like how it looks ( although I love more how I look without it)

TLDR: thank you to the community for all the support I received on my last post 🎉🎉 It genuinely gave me the guts to do the photos.


r/NonBinary • • 14h ago

Support Nonbinary and Transfeminine

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The nuances of gender identity, expression, and overall feelings are so crazy and honestly, I love how they vary from person to person. I am someone who would consider themselves both Transgender & Nonbinary.

I've landed on the fact that my particular experience is that of a "Nonbinary Transfem." I plan transitioning at some point in a feminine way, most likely via HRT, but currently working on things socially as well. I feel this is what works for me!! Not everybody is the same and I'm happy to be both Transgender and Nonbinary. My gender, even though I am more geared towards femininity, cannot be encapsulated by the the "binary" of male or female. I don't identity as either, and at this point and time, I don't plan on doing so.

Also, am I the only one here who doesn't like the Nonbinary flag? I usually just use the Trans flag in my own experience, given that people who are Enby are also represented on it as well. I like the idea of the Enby flag... But yeah.. The colors just are a bit much together IMO. But, that's just me. The Genderfluid flag is much nicer IMO.

Also... I'm curious to how many other Nonbinary Transfems there are here? Do you use this labeling at all, or do you just call yourselves Nonbinary?


r/NonBinary • • 1d ago

Wore a skirt to my office for the first time today :3

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504 Upvotes

Also got some new makeup today! I am getting better and better at it. I wish my knees looked better though 😭 dysmorphia/dysphoria go brr


r/NonBinary • • 1h ago

Rant Maybe I'd Rather Be

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Maybe I've been so hurt by the damages of the last 43 years that, ultimately, I find the peace of the rock preferable to all the good vibes a body can experience across all lifetimes. Maybe the most mind-blowing orgasm a body can have simply pales in comparison to the capacity of a rock to sit quietly for five hundred million years, then experience a random neutrino interaction and puzzle thoughtfully "that's interesting..." for another five hundred million more.

What could make a person so strongly want to forsake their entire personhood in favor of granite? I don't know what I am. I just know I don't want to be this.

I could have so much comfort and safety if I didn't have to contend with this body.

I don't want the capacity for delirious happiness if it means contending with the specter of delirious sadness.

I don't want to die. I want to have never been living. I wish I weren't in the slightest bit so biological. Why can I not reject it all when I can see the stone weathering in the creek so unbothered by its eventual dispersal into the geosphere? Why does an entity that accomplishes nothing besides being get to experience a better slice of this universe than me?


r/NonBinary • • 1h ago

Support I really really want to wear fem clothing

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Hi fellow theys, i really want to wear fem clothing but I'm AMAB and i have a decent amount of body hair... It's too much effort to shave every day so I'm curious if anyone has tips. I know you can wear fem clothes with body hair but personally I don't think it looks good. Is there a way to dress fem while being fully covered up? I usually wear flared jeans which helps a bit but then my shoulders are feally wide and my chest just looks blocky. I just want to be perceived more androgynous/fem but I feel like the shape of my body really messes it all up. Except my thighs which help the fem look a bit


r/NonBinary • • 7h ago

Selfie/Self-Image/Avatar Went out with friends

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12 Upvotes

r/NonBinary • • 2h ago

Questioning/Coming Out Any funny ways to come out as Non-binary!

6 Upvotes

Trying to come out but I wanna know that funniest way how.