Do you believe your gender is determined primarily by what you identify as? || Do you believe your race is determined primarily by what you identify as?
- Yes | Yes8%
- Yes | No19.9%
- No | Yes4.3%
- No | No67.9%
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Quite surprising that people are more race essentialists than gender essentialists when race is more arbitrary, has fuzzier bounds, and many more people cross categories
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The difference with which people treat transgenderism and transracialism is really fascinating to me. Both involve visibly different (but not always) groups, different cultural behavioral expectations, studies/debate around how much this is genetic, etc. 1/
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Yes/no seems right to me, if you mean something like sincere identification. Gender concepts rely more on internal traits a person can identify in themselves, whereas racial concepts rely more on external facts (e.g. history) that you can lack even with sincere identification.
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Do you mean causally, or that normally we should have the right to identify as a given gender or race?
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Genuine Question: isn't that exactly what the term "gender" is for (as opposed to "sex") - to distinguish between what your body is/what you think you should be? Wouldn't that make it *by definition* to be determined by what you identify?
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mu. someone identifying as a certain gender/race is a strong indication that it’s a good idea to treat them as such. but there’s something underlying going on besides just the term a person identifies with.