also trans* woman

Someone came up with the best explanation for why ‘trans* woman’ sucks: ‘trans*’ includes exactly the same people as ‘trans’ does, just with more emphasis on certain kinds of people (non-binary folk). So when you say ‘trans* woman’, you’re saying “I’m only talking about trans women with half of my mouth; the other half is talking about FAAB genderqueers.”

#also saying ‘faab genderqueer’ is redundant because only faab people are allowed to be genderqueer

Why are only faab people allowed to be genderqueer?

This is part of it.

Also, to quote from Maria’s blog from Imogen Binnie’s book “Nevada”, which you should read right now if you have not already,

"…if you are a total baby panda at Internet communities asking, like, How do I get hormones, Internet trans women are very nice: they will tell you. But when you ask a more complicated question, like say, how do you resolve a genderqueer identity with a female identity when it seems like acknowledging the restraints of female identity and then bursting them doesn’t make you no longer female, just empowered, and therefore is genderqueer a privileged identity that’s mostly available to female-assigned people with punk rock haircuts, in college, everybody gets all butt-hurt and you get in trouble." (p. 62) 

The most important part of that quote: “is genderqueer a privileged identity that’s mostly available to female-assigned people with punk rock haircuts, in college”, and the answer is “yes”.

It’s about access and cultural definition. Keep your eyes peeled for how ‘genderqueer’ is used in the abstract. The most important part of my post I blogged at the top of this post is the first line: “Stop using ‘genderqueer’ to mean ‘DFAB’ and only including it in lists like ‘transmasculine, genderqueer, boi’.”

That is how it is used by almost every faab queer/trans person I see using it: as synonymous with androgynous, which is in turn used in a way that is synonymous with “faab masculinity”.