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mailperson · 4 months ago

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On some level I guess I can understand that any conversation at all on sex/gender, gender roles, and modern forms of expression can sometimes be very complicated or confusing. Gender or sex depending on your term of preference is a loaded term for most folks and carries a lot of meaning no matter who you are.

In general I do think it’s good to foster a culture where it’s okay to question noticed patterns or trends and what meaning we can derive from them and what is or isn’t worth embracing in that regard, provided that it’s specifically and clearly done in good faith and done genuinely with respect to others,

but I feel like a very odd and common talking point in conversations clearly being had in bad faith is positing that a binary trans person, irregardless of any behavior or presentation, is somehow brutally enforcing harmful ideas about sex or gender just by existing under the label of trans person which is sort of a bizarre conclusion to reach

#any conversations about what it means to pass or whether it’s good or bad or neutral to pass is not my wheelhouse. not rly a conversation #I have a take on nor need to have one on #but re the above like. I feel like the base understanding of gender roles is that #gender roles would say maybe you shouldn’t transition #like by virtue of being trans that’s by nature not conforming to rigid and harmful ideas of sex or gender #I watched a video talking about misc excerpts of radical feminism and also specifically trans exclusionary radical feminism and it’s #very interesting when there are shared and agreed premises but wildly different conclusions #I specially say binary bcs nonbinary is a meaningless word in this conversation meaning that nonbinary means so many different things to #diff crowds depending on the conversation. it’s a whole spiel for another day my point being #considering yourself nonbinary doesn’t make you immediately irrelevant to the above #it just COULD be a different conversation depending on what nonbinary means to you personally

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