Yes -- This is how the terms are currently evolving.Sex is physical, gender is mental/perceptual
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Yes -- This is how the terms are currently evolving.Sex is physical, gender is mental/perceptual
I can sympathize.Seems to me it would be MUCH easier if new words were brought about instead of hijacking old ones.
for example
For the vast majority of my life this was called the pound sign "#".
now it is called a hash tag.
So for me, and I have found for a lot of us old people, #metoo read as "pound me too", not "hashtag me too".
Ah.It's anyone who breaks the binary gender rules.
How so? I'm a transsexual man and transsexuals do have valid issues with the non-binary activist wing. The best solution as I see it is to separate the two since we don't have much in common and have different needs. As I see it, "non-binary" is really just a politically oriented label for those who just want to deconstruct gender, much like "queer" is a subversive politically charged label. (No, that wouldn't apply to all who identify as such but likely to most and definitely to the activists.) The "transgender" umbrella has become a crowded, muddled mess.Yeah, it looks like the next scheduled show down in this hub-bub is binary vs non-binary. Since the non-binary seem to be the ones who are more marginalized (even by the binary with gender dysphoria,) I'll probably lend my support to the non-binary camp.
I'm all for deconstructing stereotypes.How so?
What's wrong with deconstructing gender stereotypes? Why shouldn't everyone be allowed to wear pink?I'm a transsexual man and transsexuals do have valid issues with the non-binary activist wing. The best solution as I see it is to separate the two since we don't have much in common and have different needs. As I see it, "non-binary" is really just a politically oriented label for those who just want to deconstruct gender, much like "queer" is a subversive politically charged label. (No, that wouldn't apply to all who identify as such but likely to most and definitely to the activists.) The "transgender" umbrella has become a crowded, muddled mess.
Nothing. The problem is conflating gender expression with identity. The non-binary types seem to think that liking pink makes you something other than a man or that not wanting to be Barbie means you're not a woman.I'm all for deconstructing stereotypes.
What's wrong with deconstructing gender stereotypes? Why shouldn't everyone be allowed to wear pink?
Interesting. I would ascribe this to strong binary types.Nothing. The problem is conflating gender expression with identity. The non-binary types seem to think that liking pink makes you something other than a man or that not wanting to be Barbie means you're not a woman.
Why in the hell would you want to wear dresses and makeup?It's gotten to the point where I see trans men, for instance, being told that we should have no problem feeling comfortable wearing dresses, heels, having long hair and wearing makeup.
I could also see wanting to break a unisex stereotype as viable.I think talking about appearance or looks is misleading.
Nowadays men and women wear exactly the same clothes
...a pair of jeans and a sweater, and they're ready to go to work.
Unisex clothing is so fashionable.
So I think that it is what's in our underpants that makes the difference
I have a trans woman friend who still calls herself a tom boy. She felt like the gender expression expectations were taxingly performative, and just wanted to wear cargo pants and short hair. But the resistance she got was from other trans women and even cis women who felt like she wasn't trying hard enough to pass or taking the female aesthetic seriously enough. To me, a cis female with a hormone disorder that makes me even less feminine, and no real interest in dresses and makeup, that sucks. It sucks we feel like gender expression has to equal a certain style of dress.Nothing. The problem is conflating gender expression with identity. The non-binary types seem to think that liking pink makes you something other than a man or that not wanting to be Barbie means you're not a woman.
It's gotten to the point where I see trans men, for instance, being told that we should have no problem feeling comfortable wearing dresses, heels, having long hair and wearing makeup.
I don't want to wear dresses and makeup but some people think that's something that trans men should feel comfortable doing, although it would be traumatic for most of us.Interesting. I would ascribe this to strong binary types.
Why in the hell would you want to wear dresses and makeup?
Then don't wear dresses. If anyone tries to force you into wearing dresses, I'll will stand up for you.I don't want to wear dresses and makeup but some people think that's something that trans men should feel comfortable doing, although it would be traumatic for most of us.
Oh, I agree that there is a difference between transsexual and non-binary. Transsexual is more often binary than not.Basically, I don't care what people like or want to wear. I just think that the non-binary people, genderfluid, etc. are basically their own category and I don't feel that I have much in common with them as a female to male transsexual. I also don't see why they want the "trans" label so badly, either, especially since most of them never really transition.