Gender isn't real: it's just an idea

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Gender isn't real: it's just an idea - Sopuli

I don’t get the gender conversation. Before you discuss, define what gender means. After you defined it, it should be clear how many types there are or can exist.

If you can’t decide on one definition, then make up several. „Genders A“, „Genders B“, …

It should be very simple.

Gender describes your sex. Or at least that’s what people want it to be.

There are various reasons why people decide to use no gender at all or what ever. In the end it’s a creation of humans to describe how people should act accordingly.

People who say there are only two genders are very narrow minded. Let them explain intersexual people. Checkmate.

There is a specific group that speaks about gender all the time: The people who believe there should be 2 genders. If that was nature’s law, have a look at animals. Good luck.

You’re running together gender and sex and then saying gender isn’t real. The reality is more nuanced.

  • You’re born with your sex (biologically determined), 2) you’re also born with gender identity, and 3) the way you present your gender is called gender expression. So I can be born a biological male but have a woman gender identity and this would make me transgender. Now whether I choose to dress in masculine or feminine clothes this doesn’t change my sex or gender identity.
  • This is where it gets murky for me and I don’t understand it at all. If someone is born male but identifies as female, but doesn’t adopt feminine social norms… Then how is that identifying as female?

    I don’t know any person like this so this is just my imagination guessing:

    Could be that you were born with male phenotype and raised that way. But you discovered that your feelings are really more aligned with the feminine realm.

    But since you look male you don’t want to appear strange for others, so you keep the way you have been looking all your life, how you are used to dress and behave, and just identify as female. Might make you feel better and more aligned with your inner self.