• deaf_fish@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    I am glad I went back to the basics.

    Gender is more complex than a binary. It’s not an inate thing, but it’s also not entirely a social construct.

    No! It is just a social construct and by saying that you made yourself a whole lot of transphobic friends.

    What it means to present as a man/woman changes over time. So there is no way gender can be innate to people.

    If gender were a pure social construct then they wouldn’t feel wrong with the gender assigned to them by society.

    Gender dysphoria is real but that doesn’t make gender not a social construct. If you want to be a woman and women wear dresses, you will want to wear a dress. If women wear hoodies, then you want to wear hoodies.

    I never said you needed to care, I said you needed to be polite if you make a mistake.

    Ok, from now on, every time you call me “deaf_fish”, I will tut tut you as say I think you mean “deaf_fish who likes the C programming language”. If you don’t remember to address me as such I will feel bad and it won’t be very polite of you.

    Edit: I have a question for you if English never had gendered pronouns, would you still be disagreeing with me?