Like you said eg this:https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/900727928169877504 …
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @o_guest and
To me, seems to raise Q: what does determine gender, if any set of features & its complement can be consistent with a given gender identity.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @kleinherenbrink and
At the end of the day gender is two things: a personal construct (like saying you like something) and
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
a social construct (what (you think) others think when they see, talk, interact with you).
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
With respect to the personal construct its unknowable. You can't tell by looking at me if I hate cheese.
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
With respect to the social construct its obviously knowable to various extents. I put on a top that says "do not fucking feed me cheese".
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
This is why gender is complex. Nothing to do with penises or even brains directly, although people make it about them.
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
For figuring all this out BTW I owe a lot of educational debt to trans women, esp
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not only that gender as it currently is understood/described/prescribed by society is illogical BS but also that it can kill.


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Never look at murder rates for trans women, by which I mean, always do. It's always an outrage how QTPOC and trans and bi women are abused.
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