Oh god, the argument is still going on on Facebook. Apparently, the options are 'cis people are obsessed with gender' or 'trans people face no prejudice for not conforming to the gender norms expected of them.'
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It is completely unsurprising that trans people would need to address issues of gender identity more than cis people for exactly the same reason. How pointing this out is currently getting me labelled a bad person who thinks transphobia doesn't exist, I don't know.
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I suspect that, in reality, 'cis people are obsessed with gender' simply means that society has a dominant conception of it as cis - that gender correlates with gonads - and that this makes things hard for trans people.
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It does make things hard for trans people but it's unlikely to go away because gender nearly always does correlate with gonads and we have evolved to recognise this because we are a sexually reproducing species.
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We support trans rights best, not by blaming the cis majority for conforming roughly to gender norms but by refuting the idea that doing so is some kind of moral imperative.
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Conversation getting increasingly dishonest. Trans person said they were confused by my argument. I agreed they were very confused & clarified point. Now accused of saying they are confused because they're trans. This is a sign of my privilege, obviously.
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