If cats have 4 legs, but a cat loses one, does it make it not a cat? What if it's also got a bit of genetic mutation? What if it's a lot of mutation? What if it was brought up by dogs? How much catness can you strip away and still have a cat? This is how I think about gender 1/
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And to restate - I am saying that gender buckets are hard to get out of, *not* that people shouldn't get out of them. I strongly support people's right to attempt to escape their bucket of birth, and I hope our tech advances to make this easier. 9/
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I also disagree with the move some people make, in their efforts to escape their gender bucket, where they insist that the bucket isn't real, or that it's only defined by a few small things, or that we're hallucinating buckets that don't exist. 10/
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I empathize with the motivation itself - being stuck in a bucket you don't want to be in can really, really suck, and leads to stuff like much higher rates of depression and suicide. But the answer here isn't denying bucket existence, it's helping people actually get out. 11/
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And again to be even more clear, I do support small social moves to help people feel like their bucket is less obvious, like using preferred pronouns and names or changing gender categories on legal documents. I think this is relatively harmless and kind to do.
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I think most people who say “gender isn’t binary” aren’t trying to make the claim that there aren’t two clear recognizable poles within gender-space (although some might be.
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it also seems to me that a lot of trans/nonbinary/gender nonconforming people i interact with have definitely gotten into a third or fourth pattern clearly distinct from the two most common ones
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But we do have male-female hybrids in some intersex people who are chimeras with some parts of the body having male DNA and other parts having female DNA And I did mention before chimerism as explaining the 'man in a woman's body' via literally man brain woman body via chimerism
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Given all available info about someone, the category boundaries of physical sex aren't hard to draw, but "can cause most people to register you as being a fairly central example of the other bucket" is a reasonable benchmark of success, and that much *is* often attainable.
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An adult brain in society is an artificial technology, and gender paradigms are primarily found in that inculcation. These change overtime, like how heterosexuality doesn't precede the 19th century. Now that we recognize this we can change far more rapidly.
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