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Gender As A Non-Physical

I discussed in the previous chapter all about how the physical (and only physical) view leads to ignorance.

So what is this Non-Physical view. Well it's most certainly not religious.

Religion in one way is invested just as much into the physical and ignorance. This is a shame because religion is supposed to be love peace and acceptance at core.

I find myself thinking on a more spiritual level. This is not me saying spirituality is the way you must agree to accept.

As long as you are happy, treat yourself others and the world with love and respect then your belief system is unnecessary to me.

However one must accept that there is a non physical world. We are physical we have bodies and objects that we touch and sense all physically.

But we are also not physical and have non physical senses too. This simply can not be denied. (Though many do).

A person who was born a physical female but grows up feeling that some days they are a boy and other days they are a female often express the experience of dysphoria. Where they may feel to have the physical aspects of the opposite physical body. For example a physical female may some days experience the feeling of not having breasts, or that they have a male penis.

Though they do not PHYSICALLY have these they do NON-PHYSICALLY. Which is why the Non-Physical has to be accepted in order for the gender fluid community to be more accepted and understood.

A good example I feel in this part of my thought track would be amputation. So imagine that you for whatever reason perhaps you had a car accident, got frost bite from an expidition whatever you like but it resulted in your physical right foot needing to be amputated.

You wake up from the procedure to find you can still wiggle your right toes.

You look down but you do not physically see your foot as it is no longer there but you can FEEL it!

This is not hard to accept as a scenario because this phenomenon is so very commen with amputation patients.

So now imagine that you are a little physical girl maybe 10 and you wake up feeling 'boy parts' you look and all you physically see is your 'girl parts' but you can FEEL the boy parts!

You then find on another day that you physically feel nothing at all! Though your physical 'girl parts' are all still there just just do not physically feel them.

Again a different day you see your physical 'girl parts' and you physically feel them too.

This goes on for all your life but no one accepts that you are anything more than a physical female. But you know there is more and you know your not ill or stupid. It is simply you. The non physical you, (which in my personal opinion is the most important you).

A person who has their right food amputated will be given help and support as they still feel their foot and struggle to come to terms that it is not really there, physically, anymore though in spirit it must still be there.

The gender fluid community needs to be shown as much acceptance and support.

My theory on the amputation scenario regards to what we call the 'soul'.

As we are born we have a non physical (or I like to say higher) self. This non physical 'soul' merges with the physical body as it grows inside our biological mothers womb. Imagine this soul of ours getting used to this physical form. It grows into every crevice of our physical self.

So when that physical right foot is amputated maybe the non physical 'soul' of the foot is still there for a while and causes the physical feeling of it still being there when the physical reality is that it is not.

Apply this when trying to understand someone with a gender fluid identity.

Maybe their non physical 'soul' isn't exactly matching their physical body. Maybe their non physical 'soul' is more flexible and not as fixated on what their physical body's form is. Maybe that is why they go through such confusion and dysphoria.

That is why they have two different definitions of who they are gender wise.

There is the physical sex of their physical body that they were born with, and then there is their non physical gender which does not always match what their physical body is.

I can not say scientifically or factually that this is absolute. However I do believe it fits better than simply denying their feelings as anything other than a 'mental illness'.