understanding of gender. Your gender is an internal sensation, knowable only by you and belonging entirely to you. While society might have created gender, the way it relates to *you* is utterly and entirely under your authority. So, given that people have such differing 2/
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understandings of gender, it's no wonder there's a big fight going on. The social-gender people view individual-gender people as confusing, insane, or lying to themselves. The individual-gender people view the social-gender people as oppressive, old fashioned, and intolerant. 3/
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In my ideal fantasy, we realize different people have completely different concepts of what gender is, and we use different words to describe the framework we're operating from, instead of fighting each other for ownership over the same terms.
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Ok. State college, then....
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Isn't social-gender people just people who believe gender and sex are the same? Or in other words, people who don't think gender is a thing? Or would social-gender people also consider a transwoman a woman, as long as she... looks and acts like one...
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Social-gender people, imo, encompass a pretty wide variety - both TERFs and truescum, traditionalists, also people like me, who are pretty ambivalent but simply intuitively process gender as an expression of how other people treat you.
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Ah, you saw my thread. Good.
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Which is kind of funny, because in that sense, communists and socialists should have more overlap with the idea of community-oriented gender, instead of insisting on owning it themselves, while more libertarian types should be all about self-determination (which they often are).
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Gender is not the means of production
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There is also a legitimate "public health" view: in so far as gender is associated with certain anatomy it is tied to certain health outcomes. (1/2)
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The anatomy is a function of the vertebrae "reproductive roles". We could reasonably ask that forms and questionnaires driven by this perspective specify "sex" instead of gender. (2/2)
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