Ned Yeung
apophis@ned this is the sort of thing that keeps planting a doubt in my mind if it's possible that very few people are actually inherently trans and our mainstream understanding of gender roles and identities is just so deranged, arbitrary, unforgiving and *narrow* that some folks are forced to identify as a different gender from their agabs just to get anything done
which probably arises from a conflation of a lot of things, come to think of it...
@apophis Yes, gender is indeed a construct of traditional society, and gender dysphoria is a side effect of those strict binary gender roles being forced on people because we can't all fit into these narrow boxes. The more we neutralize binary "gender politics" (I use that term ironically), the more people can simply be people instead of needing some sort of designation as a non-conforming genderqueer, and gender identity can become useful, and not forced. #gender #nonbinary
And of course the ironic part is that those who forced their mandatory binary genders on us are now saying we're the ones forcing "gender politics" on them whenever we fight to break down the forced gender roles which they put on us. That's the opposite of gender politics and gender policing, which is what they're doing. The goal is acceptance and dissolution, not enforcement.
Sidenote: I'm heteronormal and cis, but say "we" to mean those of us who aren't toxic.