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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
You’re right. If nobody saw any behaviors as related to one’s sex, people on the nonbinary spectrum would just be people expressing themselves how they wanted. Very few people who didn’t have physical gender dysphoria would feel a need for any distinction in that way.
But that isn’t the world we live in. If you are assigned male at birth, want to wear a dress sometimes, and enjoy several stereotypically feminine hobbies, you are going to be constantly asked why. So someone in that situation is going to have to come up with an answer for why. So they can explain who they are to people asking why they are different.
If nobody thought that was different and nobody bothered them about it or asked them why, there wouldn’t be a need for most gender identity labels. The concept that gender is separate from sex only matters in a world where people correlate behaviors to a persons sex.
Sadly, I sincerely doubt we will ever get to that point.
Comment by Classic_Bet1942 at 15/01/2025 at 14:35 UTC
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We *were* getting to that point, actually, until gender identity madness came along.
Comment by The-Jolly-Llama at 15/01/2025 at 15:44 UTC
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I’m a man in this situation, and my answer to “why” is always “because I like it? Isn’t that why everyone does things?” Or “hmm last I checked, it’s still a free country, right?” Or “Because I’m comfortable enough in my masculinity to do what I like without worrying what people might think.”