What is Trans Androgynous? Understanding the Identities Beyond Non-Binary with Spencer

Proudly On Record sits down with Spencer, who is a non-binary lesbian, YouTuber, and community builder who grew up in a conservative Eastern European country where queerness wasn't visible or discussed.In this episode, they take us through the slow, nonlinear process of understanding their gender identity after immigrating to Canada as a teenager, encountering queer community for the first time, and eventually discovering trans androgyny as the framework that finally made sense.This conversation covers a lot of ground: Spencer's theory that sexuality and gender are more deeply linked than we tend to acknowledge, what it means to be a non-binary lesbian, and why androgyny can exist in femme presentations even when nobody tells us it can.Spencer also shares what it was like to build masculinity-free community spaces and why decentering how others perceive us might be the most important work we can do for our own gender identity.Topics covered:Growing up without queer representationTrans androgyny vs. non-binary identityThe link between sexuality and genderBeing a non-binary lesbianAndrogyny in femme presentationsGender affirming clothing and bindingMicrodosing testosteroneDecentering masculinity and body perception