45 points

Other: zero votes No diversity here. This is dry land we got here

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Enby kinda covers everything, right? I donโ€™t think the genderfluid folk would be offended by an โ€œenbyโ€ label but better to leave the option in, I guess.

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I agree on Enbys covering essentially everything. My comment was supposed to be some joke, since on Fedi we actually are very diverse, which is super cool.

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Itโ€™s been 8 hours since the poll started, maybe somebody has already voted the โ€œOtherโ€ option.

EDIT: Yep. I just checked and 4 people have voted โ€œOtherโ€ so far.

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17 points

Are these new genders I am unaware of?

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31 points

nah, these were added a long time ago

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66 points

You gotta keep up with the patch notes.

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17 points

They keep nerfing cis but I guess thatโ€™s ok cause itโ€™s still OP af.

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20 points

Depends on the circles you move in. On Tumblr FtM is (or was, when I used it) far more visible.

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11 points

Probably since itโ€™s a platform used mostly by dudes, whoโ€™ll keep using it afterwards

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But wouldnโ€™t that oppose the idea of transgender? If a trans woman is a woman, wouldnโ€™t they be more common in female dominated areas?

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19 points

Not if they were living like most men before, and stay in those communities after transitioning

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4 points

I mean like Lemmy doesnโ€™t actually make you pass a gender test to login or anything, so old habits wont change

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8 points

nope. i was living as a dude who liked dude stuff, now that Iโ€™m living as a woman Iโ€™m not gonna change everything i like just to conform to your idea of a woman. sometimes girls like dude stuff too

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Iโ€™m still the same metalhead as ever, hah. Transition doesnโ€™t change your interests, passions, and hobbies. If transfems are into some traditionally masc things as a product of being raised as boys, thatโ€™ll tend to stick around after transitioning. That doesnโ€™t make them not women, but it does make them more likely to be in traditionally masc spaces than cis women.

And ultimately, I feel thatโ€™s a good thing - thereโ€™s really no reason women wouldnโ€™t be interested in metal outside of cultural norms, and if more trans women are in those spaces I hope it makes cis women more comfortable to explore those interests too.

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Nah some searching tells me that even in society as a whole, trans women are 2-4 times more common then the opposite.

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1 point

Maybe being a man just sucks, idk

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38 points

If youโ€™re just talking about the fediverse, itโ€™s probably because a lot of us (MtFโ€™s I mean) got interested in things like tech at a young age, and that interest just persisted into adulthood. Interests like that arenโ€™t pushed as much to people raised as girls, so a lot of FtM people donโ€™t really get into it, if they even have the chance to try it at all.

If you mean society as a whole, well there are a lot of reasons. A big one imo is media representation. Every single sitcom had a trans girl character at some point, but the only one I could think of that had a trans guy before the 2000s was the Golden Girls.

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ngl Iโ€™ve been looking into this recently and its actually kinda the opposite in most countries - considering usual misogynistic societies a women would be โ€˜improvedโ€™ as a man and the opposite vise versa.

Hence why we have like Pocahontas a while back but not really mtf equivalents (at least that I can think of, and arenโ€™t just the butt end of a joke).

But nowadays the mtfโ€™s are finally able to be themselves so I feel like were seeing a wave of relief in the community thatโ€™s always been there (just repressed af)

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Pocahontas

You mean Mulan?

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5 points

Iโ€™ve always wondered that as well, itโ€™s really weird because you would think itโ€™s an even split but it ends up being so extremely disproportionate.

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11 points

Thatโ€™s because the FtM lads are all too busy chopping lumber and winning bread.

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2 points

I canโ€™t figure out how to log off my computer

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6 points

Itโ€™s because it is. The short version is because itโ€™s socially acceptable for a woman to be somewhat masculine but itโ€™s not socially acceptable for a man to be feminine. A man wearing makeup, a dress, etc. stands out way more than a woman wearing a suit, jeans, etc. It is believed that this results in higher rates of transwomen. Obviously this is an oversimplified explanation, but itโ€™s the gist of it.

Source: Multiple degrees in psychology.

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