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Adam Crockett 🌀
Adam Crockett 🌀

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CIS male, trans and non binary for the developer

I spent a good deal of time watching YouTube about non binary and transgender individuals because I just wanted to learn, it's a really interesting subject.

I learned that I am a CIS male and that's okay, to me that's an immutable constant, it means that I am the gender I was assigned at birth, what can I say, I like being me. But there are other people who prefer to not see gender as assignment with either a null value, which is a value in itself, they are non binary, not true, not false.

Why? Well there are a thousands of reasons to feel this way, bit if it where my shoes, gender does drive me mad, I am implicitly less of a parent as a male, I like football as a male etc, it's a massive assumption about your state of mind and I get why you wouldn't want to be a part of this antiquated idea.

Transgender although I'm going to simplify this, is an assignment without typesafety for some, it means being assigned true when they should have been false, I'm not sure if it fits into non binary ways of thinking, wanting to go from this to that is not acknowledging non-binary belief by rejecting gender.

Anyway please don't judge me if I'm wrong, at least I am trying to understand it all for no other reason than because it's the decent thing to do

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privatecloudev

i dont think this appriorate

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Adam Crockett 🌀

How so?

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erica (she/her)

A different forum/site may be a more appropriate place for this discussion since it is very loosely related to development and has the potential to prompt heated and off-topic discussions.

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privatecloudev

yes ^

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Hi I choose watercolor tag for exactly that reason, Dev is a very open community and I have personally talked about a lot more than this before, it's okay I promise

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Also I'm a moderator so if this is not okay then I should be demoted to non moderator

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privatecloudev

you shouldnt be moderated. and it is good you ahv ehte morals but many arent good as you are which is why i will support you wish since your moderatoer but i would reccomend watchign ths thread

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privatecloudev

ps. i was moderator and admin in other groups

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privatecloudev

since you are ok and recognize the responsible asa mode please watching this threat with care

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privatecloudev

ok so reading your post again. you are correct. i dated a transgender she was ftm we are still good friends and programmers. but what i is interesting is she told he chlohting she wered didnt matter buher voice did

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privatecloudev

some trans are very tended to chlothing
sone are non op trans same are pre op and some are pre op

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privatecloudev

but gain i wouldnt post this here

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Rosia Evans

this is a really cool post, reading the other comments it seems to be getting a bit of hate but as a tran myself I appreciate it. I also find it kind of funny, the idea of thinking about it from a developer perspective is weird but like... it kinda works?

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Adam Crockett 🌀

That really lifts my spirits, thank you, yesterday I was quite frustrated I just archived the post but I guess you can't stop the signal 😆. I think about everything in development terms, thought it might make a subject that shouldn't be a big scarry deal into something more day to day

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privatecloudev

erica is correct too