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How To Write Genderqueer Characters


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Okay, so, I write quiet a lot of queer characters, but often its more non-binary and agender charters i write about, since i am Non-bianary myself and know what pronouns to use (i also write trans characters, but that doesn't really apply to my question) but i have a lot of trouble writing characters of a different gender, most notably a bi-gender character and gender fluid ones. I'm not really sure how to write the pronouns and i don't want them to be completely wrong, but i don't want to not have them represented either. 

 

So my question for you is, how does one write these characters? thank you.

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You could write with they, but that seems not very representative to me, so here's an alternative.

 

I don't know about bigender, but for genderfluid, I would write them in the pronouns that the protagonist knows them as. I've heard people switch between he/she pronouns every instance for bigender. Sort of like, for a bigender person named Rowan:

 

...Rowan bent down and picked up the twig. He inspected it, grasping it between her fingers. "Huh." he said noncommittally. "What?" I asked, wondering what she meant. Rowan continued, his eyes staring at the twig in such a way as though they were pulling all the secrets away from it. "There," she said, pointing at the bark on the twig. "Writing. A message, I think." His eyes glazed over in thought. "I don't know what it means." she said. He handed the twig over to me, and I gingerly plucked it from her hand. Indeed, there was small, spidery writing on the twig, in a language I couldn't comprehend. I handed the twig back to Rowan...

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18 hours ago, Stars_In_Their_Eyes said:

so, I write quiet a lot of queer characters,

Ohh could I see a few comics?

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