Brittany Normandy Aquitaine wrote:I could link a bunch of ben shapiro here but I won't, I will throw my opinion out here quickly.
gender and sex are the same thing, and if you are born male, you are male, born female, you are female, you cannot switch, you cannot be both, you cannot be something entirely different, and I want someone here to try to convince me otherwise
(if i don't respond it is cause i probably forgot i posted here considering I do that a lot)
Friendly reminder that Ben Shapiro got dunked on like a pack of Oreos by the Queen of Youtube. And she also disproved the whole "sex=gender" lie several years ago.Soviet Technocracy2 wrote:Brittany Normandy Aquitaine wrote:Already off that article's title I can say the brain is more like that because the person wants to be like that, not because they are really a trans or queer thing
I don’t think you can obtain a brain pattern and other test results of the opposite sex by wanting to be said sex.
Quick! Literally rewire your own brain using nothing more than sheer willpower!
Hanafuridake wrote:Internationalist Bastard wrote:A tone else have a problem of only really liking androgynous outfits on yourself?
Depends on the mood. I've worn some feminine clothes when I'm confident enough to pass (which is not a lot of the time). I mostly wear flannel shirts because I feel less vulnerable behind them. Which lead to some friends joking I'm a butch-femme hybrid.
I've seen her in the flannel. She looks cute AF.
Seangoli wrote:Brittany Normandy Aquitaine wrote:I could link a bunch of ben shapiro here but I won't, I will throw my opinion out here quickly.
gender and sex are the same thing, and if you are born male, you are male, born female, you are female, you cannot switch, you cannot be both, you cannot be something entirely different, and I want someone here to try to convince me otherwise
(if i don't respond it is cause i probably forgot i posted here considering I do that a lot)
Gender and sex are not the same concept. Sex is the biological classification one has. While it is technically true that humans have two sexes with different gametes that are involved in reproduction, itnalso true that there individuals whomnon a biological level do not fit neatly into male or female sexes, from a biological point. Individuals with male genitalia whom have xy chromosomes, chimeras, etc do all exist. That said, typically there is a male and female dichotomy.
Gender is a concept that refers to how sex is expressed and defined in a given society. While gender typically aligns with expected biological sex, this does nkt mean that sex and gender are the same. Rather, Gender is the social expectations involved with a person's sex.
The reason why the latter was developed has nothing to do with some sort of nefarious SJW-ness. Rather, it developed in psychology and anthropology to discuss the rather complicated nature that sex and culture have with one another, and how different individuals and cultures express sex in a cultural context.
More to the point, Sex is the biological portion, Gender is studying how biology and culture interact.
Or, to put it simply, people aren't unlike computers. You have hardware (sex) and software (gender).
Auzkhia wrote:Good news! I started hormone therapy today, only bad thing was a blood test, it was a bit painful and nearly passed out at the sight of it, I have anxiety issues with blood and needles.
I'm so glad for you!
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Update on my friend: she's out of the hospital and currently at a mental health facility receiving therapy. I haven't been able to talk to her. Turns out the attempt was pretty bad and the hospital had to restart her kidneys twice. They were only letting her parents have contact with her. She was too distraught at the hospital.
I don't know, and neither does her family, how long she'll be kept at the mental health place. I think there's a big concern about another suicide attempt if she's released at this time.
Oh, god. That's terrible news.
Auzkhia wrote:Thuzbekistan wrote:No one cares until they actually meet one or have one they know. Other than that, it's mostly irrelevant to them. So why should they look up things about lifestyles or genders or anything else that doesn't have an impact on their lives? On top of that, you are trying to get people who
CAN'T see from the perspective of a trans person to understand that perspective. Most people have a tentative feeling about trans simply because they can't understand it. Cis people are generally locked in a mindset of "well, this is who I am" and questioning something as basic as whether they are a man, or woman, or something else is entirely foreign to them. So if you want them to understand, it is up to you to try and share what that is like. No amount of googling will do that for anyone.
Some questions can be easily answered with a quick google consultation, but I shouldn't have to educate, but if not me, who is going to learn? Maybe cis allies could tell their fellow cis, but still, it just gets tiring.
And shit like this is why we need trained, LGBT+ competent sex ed instructors in schools.
Thuzbekistan wrote:Auzkhia wrote:Some questions can be easily answered with a quick google consultation, but I shouldn't have to educate, but if not me, who is going to learn? Maybe cis allies could tell their fellow cis, but still, it just gets tiring.
There arent allies or "fellow cis". We arent grouped by how we are born. Diabetics dont expect anyone but their close family members to know how to use a glucagon kit or how to stab them with needles. Theres no need for everyone to learn even the basics about trans people unless they need to so long as they, out of ignorance, arent biased against them. Expecting everyone around you to know about your set of difficulties or challenges is going to do nothing but frustrate you.
I think that's an unhelpful attitude to have. Sure, not everyone can be fully competent in every minority concern, but there is definitely a basic minimum that should be met.
FFS, there's people (i.e., cis men) who don't understand that cis women not only bleed during their periods, but said bleeding is not willfully controllable. They actually think tampons/pads/etc. are "luxury items". That's the same level of ingrained ignorance that LGBT+ have to deal with (not just on trans issues, I've encountered coworkers who literally think being LGB is caused by child sexual abuse). We're not expecting everyone to have a fucking PhD on our issues, but not having a basic understanding of the shit that affects us causes terrible outcomes (see again, the idea that tampons/pads are "luxury" items).