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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
Sex is the biology, Gender is the role people with any given appearance are expected to perform. for example, when someone dresses androgynous, you do not expect them to act stereotypically feminine or stereotypically masculine. you might not know what to expect. a lot of people argue that you can construct your gender however you'd like, so you can wear dresses and makeup and identify as a man, and people do. but when someone identifies as trans or nonbinary, or both, they are more intentionally constructing their gender identity based on what aligns with their internal experience, which may grab from a lot of different gender aesthetics, attitudes, etc. if your internal experience doesn't take from as many buckets, the idea of being trans or non binary probably doesn't align with your internal experience. So again, sex is your biological sex characteristics you are born with, while gender is the social role you are expected to perform. making the argument that social role is inherently tied to biology is obviously false because people are literally doing it and engaging in it, which means it exists.
society is simple; if you can observe social behavior occuring, it is part of society. full stop. there's not really a discussion to be had about whether it should exist or not, because it will continue to exist regardless of the verdict someone might come to. To enforce its removal from society is to acknowledge its existence in the first place, which is inherently contradictory and logically inconsistent to the ideology of those who want to see it stop. This is true in the sense that they are arguing it is unnatural; the problem being that anything observable is "natural" in the sense that it is occurring. this is especially true in the case of social behavior. any other argument you can make regarding what is "natural" is subjective and based on an individual's perception of what nature is and how it "should" be. There may be others that agree with your sense, but that is par for the course considering your beliefs are going to reflect your internal experience and your material reality. people who have a similar material reality to you are more likely to have beliefs that are similar to yours, which is why "beliefs" can feel like "facts." the conflation of sex and gender is an example of this. it is the belief of some kinds of people that gender roles are inherently linked to biology, and ignores the development of social roles based on logistics and material conditions. so, in short, our gender roles should reflect the material reality of our time, and they do, for the most part.
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