Continuing on after my definition of slander post I thought I would talk about the definition of scam, the inspiration for this came not from the queer community but from this video from the minecraft community. To summarize it’s about a minecraft convention where the organisers were accused of scamming people, akin to many stories about fandom/communities being taken advantage of through the organisation of conventions that are not worth the paper the tickets are printed on. The one I linked to earlier in the paragraph promised giveaways of minecraft lego and PS4s and instead they gave away pens and the convention was ended after 2 hours. The definition of scam is something that comes up in many of these conversations as people debate if a failed event is a scam or if there has to be some sort of malicious intent that is clear from the start. It has personally affected me when I tried to purchase packers and a STP from levamentum and they… lets start with “failed to deliver”
Category Archives: Gender Identity
Grey – Do you have to want medical transition to be Trans*?
As I have touched on before many of my inspirations for informative posts come from the communities I am involved with on facebook, I often save comments and replies I make to then form them into posts for here, at the moment I have quite a backlog of them.
This issue was originally raised by a TERF who was putting down a trans* person who did not plan to medically transition, they also likened it to mental illness and compared it to their own battles with anorexia. To me this discussion raised many important points on what others think of trans* people who do not feel a need too or do not want to medically transition, in short take hormones and get gender reassignment surgery. And some of the mental illness stigma about trans* people.
X – Bi-gender
Ed Note: Last This weeks guest post is X, they are a university student with a talent for science and sculpture and have offered to write about being bigender.
Jay – Genderfluid
Well meaning people often use the phrase “labels are for soup cans” to articulate that we (especially those under the ever growing LGBTIQA+ banner) should be able to just be ourselves without feeling the need to put a label on it. But in our world labels have a purpose.
Grey – Trans masculine
This week we are going to feature different posts about being Enby, Enby or Non-Binary is a blanket term for lots of different genders that are not male or female and most Enby people fit into a narrower category, I personally feel most comfortable with the term transmasculine.
The Enby Diaries 