X-Gender, Vol. 1

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X-Gender, Vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I'll be honest that second star is only there because I feel bad giving a memoir a single star but good god is this thing miserable. Please there is so many other better life as a nonbinary out there. This is misogynistic, biphobic, self loathing and just plain depressing (and there a few more phobias in this against the LGBT side of things)

Our narrator volleys in the beginning between explaining what various LGBT categories are (and not being nice about any of it) and their own life. In more detail than you want. Do I need to know what position they masturbate in? Is it to prove they aren't female because they do it in a more male position? (do people just masturbate in one position? I know my answer to that, no).

They are more than nonbinary. They are definitely sex-opposed, at least vaginal sex and they are quick to tell you they won't even put their fingers in there, let alone anything else.

The story starts off with them finding out a former girlfriend who dumped them is now married and just had a baby and a mutual friend had to warn them off contacting her because she wasn't going to allow them to upset her so we get a glimpse of how toxic this must have been. They go off on various rants about women who go from women back to men (so very biphobic) and we get discourse on how they're better friends with gay men than anyone but by then I didn't care. There's more of this series. Yeah hard pass. Go find something that actually celebrates being nonbinary rather than this cruel thing

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