This headcanon is patently false. In the show scripts, the mane six refer to each other as ‘girls’ all the time and no one bats an eye.
 
Then again, why am I even bothering replying to a seven year old image that’s possibly a troll?
 
 
@AaronMk  

Yeah, retail work sucks.

@corporalvortex  
From what I can tell it’s not that people hate non-binary/trans people but think it annoying when people create these overly elaborate LBGTQ+ headcanons. I honestly can’t blame them, as are often rather exaggerated in my opinion
 
@Ice Star  
“Stagender”?

i like these headcanons! Trans Rarity is one of my favorites  
Didn’t get why so much people hate on nb/trans folks here

@Ice Star
 
Trends gonna trend out. People should be able to do what they do.
 
 
But on tattoos, way I hear it it’s not bad if it’s on a fleshy part of the body. It’s when you get over bone like on the ribs, collar bone, or ankle that it’s a bitch.

@AaronMk  
The moment you mentioned those tattoos, I thought of Muai from ‘Moana’ because I need to imagine how much tattooes hurt, I guess.
 
But yeah, here’s to hoping ‘stagender’ fades into the realm of weird bullshit long past.

@Ice Star
 
Honestly, I think the only thing that we can possibly do is wait it out. It’s the new thing and we’re probably figuring out how it should fit. Stupid shit and arguing is how it gets negotiated until a equilibrium is found.
 
The only other alternative then is to tattoo ourselves with our life story like some Polynesian cultures. That was a possibility the lecturer in question sort of joked about to alleviate this loss of identity.

@AaronMk  
Props to you for that self-education there, though!
 
As a transperson myself, it’s incredibly frustrating to see that while the LBGT movement taking to things like social media and becoming, as you’ve said, more mainstream it isn’t just educating people and helping them connect, it’s lead to things like tumblr special snowflakes, and things like being ‘stargender’ or ‘bunnygender’ as people like that no longer seem to have a grasp on what gender is.
 
Identity, whether through occupation, nationality, or sexuality/gender is an important thing, and to reduce it to something like that is really, really dumb. Seriously.
 
And just as your post said, where being trans or cis can become more relevant, I do think that’s more of a modern thing, if only because of better grasps on mental health than two hundred some years ago, and the decreased (though not absent) violence towards LBGT people, and that there are now greater laws against discrimination. People know more about gender dysphoria now, and with people able to communicate this all over the globe, along with other issues, it’s no wonder the ‘gendering phenomenon’ (if that’s what it’s supposed to be called now?) is everywhere, even if sometimes it feels otherwise.

@Ice Star  

 
Working eight hours at night stacking boxes and shit with nothing to do but listen to the in-store radio with ads at a large multi-national conglomerate retailer, one thing I’ve been doing over the passed two years has been to listen to audio books and/or lectures. One of the lecturers I’ve gotten into has several times discussed the trend in trying to find different ways in displaying someone’s identity in the modern era as compared to an individual’s identity two-hundred plus years ago, at least in the Western European context. From what he talks about you could argue the gendering phenomenon is pretty much this.
 
In layman, normal means, as in the cases the professor would be more familiar with: people would assert their identity as a person by talking about what they do as a job or a career. Answering the, “What do you do?” question. What you do as a job or career, is therefore your identity in the modern democratic world where there’s no distinction between aristocracy and commoner; the other in this vein would be what car you drive as a symbol of your relative or perceived income bracket. For someone now to say or claim to be cis-gendered, queer, asexual, etc. is the new way to put forward a personal identity without any long or complex stories. I’d say this is the new thing because the LGBT movement is making the new more mainstream now than it was ten years ago.
 
I could be wrong of course.

Most of these don’t even feel like real pony headcanons, seeing as things like race headcanons really would only work best for artists and writers working on human AUs. Most of the people who write these gender headcanons certainly don’t seem to understand what being transgender is really like and how it works, or that there’s nothing wrong with being cis and straight.

It’s funny because Twilight doesn’t like being referred to by any royal honorifics, gender-neutral or not.

Rarity is weak. Sauron is strong.

@Olpert  
Oh christ. Now you got me thinking about those typical D&D alignment charts, except stuff like chaotic good, neutral evil, etc. have been replaced with this Tumblr bullshit.

I like the first one about Twilight…but then it just started going downhill.

These have gone from stupid to hilarious with this one. Like, crafting such intricate stupidity has to have a brilliant mind behind it. The next step probably is going to be creating a web of different sexual/gender alignments for all of ponyville.

Twilight doesn’t really like being placed on a pedestal above others, so that more or less eliminates her wanting to be referred to by royal terms. Granted, she won’t contradict ponies that do it since she knows it’s the standard when dealing with a princess, but it just doesn’t seem like something she’d actually like.

@Prof.NightJack  
This.

This is oddly similar to how some gangs are formed.

What a message. We’ll beat you up if you say something bad.

@Prof.NightJack
 
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In the end it doesn’t matter because this is all a fever dream as a continuing symptom of the malaria Twilight got while serving as a nurse in Vietnam.
 
Shining Armor as well suffers a similar condition, though more from lasting PTSD than a malarial infection. Every night he wakes up sweating as he hears the screaming of his lost friends as they lay dying in muddy rice paddies in central ‘Nam. But there’s a ghostly sort of comfort to it, as when he goes back to sleep he’s visited by ponies like his sister.
 
The two of them know, if silently. Every time they meet up for lunch with their respective families they have a silent knowing exchange.
 
 
In the end, it doesn’t matter because the ponies aren’t real and there’s a loaded .38 in Shining’s dresser.

This is the first time I’ve seen the word “genderfluid” and I thought it was made-up. Turns out it’s not.

People can see there own gender how they want but when they get the idea to be violent to people that don’t agree then I stop caring what gender they think they are, they are a jackass.

Osef

That’s not a very healthy mindset, I don’t think.