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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
How does one even have a gender of the mind? What does that mean??
Comment by labcoat_samurai at 12/01/2025 at 14:53 UTC
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Well, in fiction we're usually pretty comfortable with gendering robots, even though they don't have chromosomes or sex organs. If you were transferred to an androgynous robot body, would you switch to gender neutral pronouns or keep using your current ones? No wrong answer here, but if you do keep your current ones as many people would, I think that's some indication of purely mental gender identity.
Comment by twinkie2001 at 12/01/2025 at 14:40 UTC
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Well, I don’t personally subscribe to modern ideas of “gender,” so I’m not really the one to ask 😅 I view it as merely an aspect of your personality that’s still best understood in the context of a gender binary.
That’s why I’ve never understood being non-binary unless it’s in the sense of just being somewhere on the spectrum between masculine/feminine, which aren’t we all? And in which case “non” binary (the implication you reside outside the binary) wouldn’t be an appropriate term.
If someone is transgender I see that as simply having a personality more aligned with the opposite sex, and if someone is non-binary I see it as being someone who possesses both feminine and masculine traits, but that’s not considered a very “woke” view.
Just my 2¢
Comment by ta0029271 at 14/01/2025 at 16:55 UTC
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It's your gender soul. Only some people are born with one though.