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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
As you say, for a great many health reasons? To allow greater understanding of functions and patterns of your body to improve your quality of life. Very often gender can’t be known from looking at someone’s face. Many people were born with “underwear” parts that don’t fit a certain standard and underwent surgery to have the choice made for them arbitrarily without regard to their internal biology. Outward signifiers dont meet everyone’s needs. Hell, they barely meet the needs of the majority.
Comment by Competitive_News_385 at 15/01/2025 at 12:36 UTC
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We can't base a social construct on the minority though.
Some people may have had some kind of illness / deformity but they are still either XX or XY.
Also generally speaking when that does happen they do try to align the surgery with the chromosomes, although that isn't always possible.
It may not work perfectly but it's better than the alternative.
Realistically no social construct works perfectly.