I don't have the training to evaluate your explanation on scientific grounds, but it feels very right to me. It distresses me when people, trans or otherwise, state that "gender is a social construct," because it seems to invalidate my firm self-knowledge that I am a woman. Separating identity and expression resolves that - the *expression* of gender depends on the culture in which we live, but our gender identity does not.
Obviously many of the *social* aspects of gender that are socially constructed, but to suggest that *all* of gender is socially constructed is clearly not correct. Maybe I should do a post on that sometime...
Julia Serano has a good differentiation between gender as a social construct and gender as artificial. Which is a huge difference - but many conflate the two. Also she proposes a "gender inclination model" which fits your ideas very well.
She poses we have some innert trair that makes us gravitate to certain genders and thus this is a phenomenon which exists in many different cultures with different gender configurations.
I firmly believe that, like you said, trans girls (as an example) are not inclined to like pink or dresses - they just have this intrinsic feeling of "I should belong to the group who typically does those things" - and thus it might be affirming and still later they might gravitate to a more tomboyish or butch presentation.
If our culture would symbolise being a woman or girl through different things, trans girls would wish for *those* things.
And we do it subconsciously. Even though I didn't *know* I was a girl and didn't dress like one, I adopted other things until the boys taunted me for walking and talking funny, couldn't understand why I related to girls differently, etc.
I wasn't able to completely mask as a guy and I always paid a huge price.
Cool story, who gives a fuck. Maybe you should use your voice to take up the fight for your people. You know the ones being persecuted RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!
No?
You’re right, much better to beg for understanding and acceptance from cis gendered who are absolutely committed to misunderstanding any truth outside of their own you try to present them.
Wake the fuck up, most of Your People just lost their Healthcare.
Fight or be erased. Work through your own needs for acceptance when Our Children are safe.
We have tried to write about this. Also, here is a really good piece written by one of our best authors. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/gender-euphoria-and-dysphoria-not
Thanks! It's reassuring to know I'm not the only one thinking this.
Trust me, I can assure you , you are not alone.
I don't have the training to evaluate your explanation on scientific grounds, but it feels very right to me. It distresses me when people, trans or otherwise, state that "gender is a social construct," because it seems to invalidate my firm self-knowledge that I am a woman. Separating identity and expression resolves that - the *expression* of gender depends on the culture in which we live, but our gender identity does not.
Thanks.
Obviously many of the *social* aspects of gender that are socially constructed, but to suggest that *all* of gender is socially constructed is clearly not correct. Maybe I should do a post on that sometime...
Julia Serano has a good differentiation between gender as a social construct and gender as artificial. Which is a huge difference - but many conflate the two. Also she proposes a "gender inclination model" which fits your ideas very well.
She poses we have some innert trair that makes us gravitate to certain genders and thus this is a phenomenon which exists in many different cultures with different gender configurations.
I firmly believe that, like you said, trans girls (as an example) are not inclined to like pink or dresses - they just have this intrinsic feeling of "I should belong to the group who typically does those things" - and thus it might be affirming and still later they might gravitate to a more tomboyish or butch presentation.
If our culture would symbolise being a woman or girl through different things, trans girls would wish for *those* things.
And we do it subconsciously. Even though I didn't *know* I was a girl and didn't dress like one, I adopted other things until the boys taunted me for walking and talking funny, couldn't understand why I related to girls differently, etc.
I wasn't able to completely mask as a guy and I always paid a huge price.
Cool story, who gives a fuck. Maybe you should use your voice to take up the fight for your people. You know the ones being persecuted RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!
No?
You’re right, much better to beg for understanding and acceptance from cis gendered who are absolutely committed to misunderstanding any truth outside of their own you try to present them.
Wake the fuck up, most of Your People just lost their Healthcare.
Fight or be erased. Work through your own needs for acceptance when Our Children are safe.
If not, remove your selfishness from the field.