2/ transgender folks should be protected class. Talking about the other stuff: increasing belief that there are 6 billion genders, or
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Replying to @jessesingal
seems to be an issue of talking about things at varying levels of abstraction. At a super low level, 6bil genders is reasonable
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Replying to @bekkhylle
sure, but it's just a dressed-up way of saying everyone has a diff personality and understanding of gender
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Replying to @jessesingal
re-read this tweet.Its not necessarily the case that gendr is solely a thng in terms of generl persnality/personal understnding
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Replying to @bekkhylle @jessesingal
it is a possibility that a gender is an independent unit of individual psychology. influenced by the outside, but not wholly
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Replying to @bekkhylle
sure, what else would gender be? combo of some innate tendencies filtered through life/experience/other stuff
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Replying to @jessesingal
the common(and what I can tell, near universal)notion is that it is entirely an societal epiphenomenon: "gender is a construct"
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Replying to @bekkhylle @jessesingal
tho if youre cool w "some innate tendencies filtered through life/experience/other stuff" I think we agree more than I thought
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Replying to @bekkhylle
eh i overstated innate. i just mean i'm fine with in utero exposures having (maybe slight) effects on chance of GD etc
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Replying to @jessesingal
I don't think any given gender is innate, but I think it would be ignorant to deny the possibility of an innate gender capacity
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innate gender capacity != innate gender ID tho
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Replying to @jessesingal
sure, I think people often conflate innate with 'not subject to conscious alteration', but I think that's an general issue,
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Replying to @bekkhylle @jessesingal
not unique to gender stuff. &its clear that there are nasty forces that seek to make transitude out to be a 'lifestyle choice'
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