for those who seem to want society to go to a lot of effort to recognise the genders as non-binary
trans supporters seem to have quite a binary view of the debate. anyone who opposes them is transphobic
Putting aside genetics, hormones, and genitals, I see things a bit like citizenship.
Now somebody could be born in yemen, but now in his mid 30s he's started to see himself more as british. he watches a lot of uk tv and mentally pictures himself as being british. He's never felt comfortable being yemeni, he can't stand hommus. thanks to some new change in the UK citzenship laws, he's able to get naturalised and get a british passport and move to britian. It was difficult and took bravery. He learns english though you can tell from the way talks he's not native, but the law entitles him to call himself british. And when he goes to a work party, he feels a bit of an outcast. His workmates all share common experiences and references of growing up in england that he missed out on and now has to kind of bluff at to pretend to understand what it was like. Sometime he makes mistakes that no brit would make, or tries too hard to be british. none of them grew up in yemen, and most can tell he's foreign, even if some arent sure where they know he wasn't born here. So he lives between worlds, like other people who change their country. British is a legal title, and he can make them call him british, but he is what he is and people can see it
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