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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
There's no such thing as as "innate gender identity" and there cannot be. I've mentioned this several times but I'll do it again, the concept of gender only began in the 1960s and it's precisely because of people like Money and Butler that we even have a conceptualization of gender identity.
I don’t see the logic here. It’s true that our present concepts of gender are relatively recent, but that’s no reason to think the “innate gender identity” some people are positing *can’t* exist. Plenty of things exist whether or not we have a concept of them.
Comment by poli_trial at 13/01/2025 at 07:29 UTC
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You cannot discover things in the social sciences in the same way you can discover them in math. These are abstract concepts in a very literal sense; gender is a human concept from its origin and its a way to categorize how social roles are played out. At best, we can say it's a sort of internal compass towards how we navigate our social roles, but even then, these social roles vary incredibly, culture to culture and epoch to epoch. Something as ephemeral as that cannot be innate, if for no other reason than the fact that it is the result of us orienting ourselves against the environment it's in. Different environment = different role. There are tendencies perhaps, but that's not at all the same as sommethinf being immutable and innate.