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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
I mean this with all due to respect, if you find my existence as more sexist, more *threatening* then the patriarchal structures that have been in place for centuries, the institutionalization of victim blaming, and the culture of men treating women like property, then you are sorely mistaken.
No, no, no. Not MORE, not something different, but literally the same exact thing, part of the same problem. To me conservative views and your views are part of the same diagram of sexism, you just go at it from different angles. Two sides of the same coin.
So here:
Modern medicine has determined that the best treatment for gender dysphoria is medical transition and social transition.
That kind of transition, specifically social one, can ONLY happen due to the fact that society is still very sexist, had it not been sexist, social transition would just be impossible, you wouldn't be seen, perceived and treated as any different pre and post transition.
Again; I cannot explain my existence to you. I only know how I am happiest. But beyond that, you are trying to explain me away with science and semantics.
Yes, anything can be explained if you just think hard enough and dig deep enough. You, me, them, any behaviour, emotion of phenomena, everything can be explained.
I don’t care what you do with your life, I just don’t want my children to be that way! And I actually think you’re reinforcing harmful gender norms. And also ideally I don’t think you should be the way you are, but it’s okay because I’m not actually against you being happy
But why wouldn't I be able to make a rational point from that angle? What if I DO actually believe that if I raise my kid to be an egalitarian and I succeed and my kid will not have a gender, will not be sexist, then logically it would be impossible for them to be trans? I wouldn't raise my kid specifically to not be trans, that is not the point, I would raise my kid to be an egalitarian, but that would just be a by-product, because without sexism it is impossible.
if you cared about gender abolition more than you cared about trans people as a scapegoat
You are not a scapegoat, you are just one of many and many more, I call out sexism EVERYWHERE, you think I don't bother cis people? I sure as hell do.
Comment by ReneeBear at 13/01/2025 at 20:16 UTC
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So, people identifying themselves despite what society says they are is sexism? Furthermore, *you* introduced the notion that transgender people are only transgender to fall into the stereotypes associated with the opposite sex. I challenged that notion lightly but honestly I don’t think I made enough of a point with it. There are butch trans women and feminine trans men all the time. Are they still being sexist by identifying as transgender? Furthermore, if we advocate for people identifying as they wish freely within or outside of the gender binary that has been established, then how can transgender advocates be compared to sexist conservatives who do, by definition, the opposite, by telling people they have to follow the stereotypes set by society?
Even beyond that, you stated if you raised your child, you would raise them without gendering and beyond that, without raising them to be *not* trans. So what if the child happens to be trans regardless? Again, your assumption here is trans people’s existence is defined by social stereotypes of sex, and I refuse to accept that notion because of my lived experience with transgender people and as one myself.