Some people have a community-oriented understanding of gender. Your gender doesn't belong to you, it belongs in the perception of those around you. Gender is created as a social agreement which pulls upon ancient narratives.
In contrast, others have an individual-oriented 1/
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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.
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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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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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oh man i didn't know i was in a liberal arts college course thanks for letting me know
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