I have never seen anyone explain what a ‘gender’ is. Everyone ducks out.
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @HPluckrose
I would suggest that this is because the very notion of people having a ‘gender’, as used in the context of essays such as yours, is inherently incoherent and unstable.
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @HPluckrose
Gender is probably a bit fuzzy and (partially) linguistic, in the later Wittgenstein model, but that certainly doesn't mean it isn't a thing.
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But what is it? How do you feel like a woman? Can you answer that without sex stereotypes?
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It's notoriously difficult to articulate although stereotypes are generally pretty sound and rooted on our pattern recognition.
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When girls think they are men because they don't like pink and dresses, I want to smash my head against the wall. But that's what I always see in those ” trans kids ” stories. Obviously many women hate dresses and are not ”feminine.”
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Its not what I always see.
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Well, I can't speak for you, but every trans boy story I have ever seen on television makes a big deal out of the fact the trans boy hates dresses. Often the parents tried to force them on the kid.
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Nah, that's just what's easiest to describe.
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But what does not liking dresses have to do with being trans?
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Men seldom wear dresses. That is a symptom of being trans but it's much less easy to define than this. I can't do it despite seeing a kid growing up & people trying to convince him he was a girl & being very sure he wasn't. That can't be conveyed well.
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