Rain
Comic 697 - Rain Delay 21
Author Notes:
Reverse fictional lucid dreaming
Really think about how paradoxical this is. Kaminari, a manga character, dreamt she was Rain, a "real life person", who was dreaming about being Kaminari. O_O I didn't really have a punchline in mind, so much as I just wanted to depict this scenario (and I would really never get another chance). So the last panel could've had Rei saying anything. I had a few different alternatives, but this is the one that made me laugh most for some reason.
Too Soon?
I almost didn't use this one for exactly the reason of the title, but I didn't really have any other relevant ideas in mind. As for the content itself, I know Rain's hair was previously covering her left eye most of the time, but I'm surprised by how many people were so shocked to see she even HAD a second eye. Chapter 6, 11, and 12 called. They want you to reread them. XD
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"What? Too Soon? It's Never too soon people"
I was wondering if there was any difference between "transsexual" and "transgender". I read "transgender" included transsexuality as well as some other things... But Emily used "transgender" in the last delay, so I wonder if they are completely synonyms.
I figured "gender queer" was more along the lines of the more encompassing version and where "non binary" meant genders that aren't specifically "Male" or "Female"
I could be wrong though, these are not labels I have studied too much, just picked up along the way, and I know that gender identity is rarely black and white ^^
You mostly correct. Transgender means that the person feels (on the inside)they are the opposite gender than what they had been born. While, a transsexual is someone who has gone through or is going through, both hormone replacement therapy and gender reassignment surgeries. So, imagine that there's a spectrum of colors the blue end being male and the female end being pink. Now, imagine somewhere very close to either the female or male ends are the transgenders and the transsexuals. Now, go toward the middle and you get the gender queer, agender, non binary, etc. That's basically what I imagine it would look like. I may not be the best source, but I've been looking into this kind of stuff for a while, as I am an FTM. I hope this maybe helped.
Transgender tends to see more use as an umbrella term for people who don't fit into the general cis gender binary. This includes gender queer, gender fluid, and gender neutral sides. Especially because there are people who consider them selves gender queer specifically by how they're non-conforming on gender. Though that leads to a lot of nebulous space regarding gender queer and gender fluid folk. Transgender generally fits as a catch-all term for the entire topic regarding people who are transsexual, non-op trans, serious cross-dressers, bi-gender, agender, gender fluid, and etc. At the same time transgender can also be used to define people who aren't interested in the full "bottom" gender reassignment surgery, for whatever reason. Then finally most people outside the community often see it as just a polite term for transsexual.
In the trans community in general there tends to be quite a bit of personal application of terms, using which fits best. There is also contentions over terms. For example many trans people dislike MtF and FtM, instead preferring terms like; transwoman and transman. Then there are some who hate both sets of terms because they just want to be seen as the gender they identify as with out tagging on trans. So it can be a bit confusing.
I don't believe you have the correct definition for the word transgender. Transgender means the person feels (on the inside) that they are the gender opposite of what they were born. You got transsexual mostly correct. Transsexual means that a person who once identified as transgender has gone through both hormone replacement therapy and gender reassignment surgeries. Non binary is probably the umbrella term you're looking for, as it encompasses any gender that is not directly in the binary. A.K.A gender queer, agender, bigender, neutrois, androgynous, etc. I hope this helped.
More often than not transgender is applied as the goto umbrella term for almost all non-binary.
It seems it's hard to find a definition everyone is okay with. I guess it's better to say "transsexual" to talk about post-op trans persons, and to use "transgender" for everyone else, in order to be sure to not use an inaccurate word. ~
"It seems it's hard to find a definition everyone is okay with."
Sadly, I have found that to be one of the bigger problems within the LGBT community as a whole. I don't necessarily mind all the terminology, but there's so much of it. And depending on where you learned it (and when, how, and who from) so many people can have so many different definitions. This wouldn't be such a problem except that sometimes, if people have differing ideas, it can lead to fighting and even outright bullying (for example, I got insults and threats over my definition of pansexuality when Emily came out... while other people were like, "that's a perfect description"). This isn't bad right here thankfully, but it can get really nasty. I've found it pays to just be flexible with words so you can adapt if needed when new words arise or old ones evolve.
Anyway, I learned transgender to be an umbrella term too. Most of the time though, I just say trans. If I say, "I'm a trans woman", no one ever fights me on that wording.
http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.aspx
Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth.
http://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender
An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transgender
Of, relating to, or being a person (as a transsexual or transvestite) who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person's sex at birth.
http://spectrumgainesville.tumblr.com/infoforallies
A term used to describe people who transgress social gender norms; often used as an umbrella term to include transsexual, gender queer, gender non conforming or cross-dressers.
I thought it was a cute scenario.
Too soon?
Well! That lightened the mood. Can't wait to see what happens in cannon.
¨dude, i dreamt i was a lesbian¨