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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
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 OilAshamed4132 at 12/01/2025 at 15:02 UTC
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Well of course most people would keep the pronouns they’ve used their entire life as a human. And those pronouns were very much connected to their genitals and outward gender expression as human, even if robots no longer have them.
That reasoning seems very circular to me. “I’m non-binary because I don’t feel like a man or a woman.” Like…. What do you think it’s supposed to feel like???
Comment by ta0029271 at 14/01/2025 at 09:30 UTC
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I don't think this works, you'd still be basing this off your sexed body because it's what you're used to. It's also a hypothetical that's (currently) not possible so doesn't directly relate to any real life situation.
Comment by Last-Laugh7928 at 12/01/2025 at 17:55 UTC
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this is a stupid question, respectfully. if you were to take someone's brain, containing all of their lived experiences, all of the socialization they've internalized, etc., and transfer them into a different body, it would be weird. it would be weird and distressing for a million reasons, gender being just one of them. my brain is connected to my body. you can't just take my brain out and put it in another body.
if you were to wipe someone's memory completely and then switch/neutralize their sex, how would they react? that's the better hypothetical, and also not something we can really know the answer to.
my point is, gender is learned. if i've already learned my gender, putting my brain in a robot won't change that.