Youāre confusing gender expression with gender identity, and not doing a great job at reading comprehension as well.
Transphobes think gender is synonymous with biological sex. People who almost get it think that gender is entirely independent of biology. The truth is that gender is complicated. The link I shared gives a decent overview.
Do you think trans people transition because one day they decided to on a whim?
Do you think if you flipped a coin to pick a childās gender that thatās what theyād be?
Set aside that youāve decided to argue and actually think for a moment. Where do you think gender dysphoria comes from?
I donāt think your little argument is as compelling as you think. If you ask me to address you by a different name I would, and it is impolite to refuse to use someoneās preferred name.
Let me guess, your one joke is āand I identify as an attack helicopter hyuck hyuck hyuckā?
The crux of the matter seems to be that you think you shouldnāt need to be respectful to people except when it suits you, and youāre irritated people might judge you for that. Youāve also got that trumped up conservative "thereās so many rules nowadays! You canāt just make a joke anymore!ā energy.
Yes, if English never had gendered pronouns Iād still think gender as a concept would have reason to exist.
I canāt tell if you are stupid, a troll, a transphobia, or being reflexively contrarian.
My point was never that gender shouldnāt exist. And I admitted from my first post that I am willing learn peoples pronouns and address them as such (the tax comment). Just that I think it is a thing that should go away 200 years from now or so.
I donāt see any point continuing this conversation with you. Have a nice life.
In the beginning, I was trying to explain why some people donāt want to eliminate gender for the same reason racial minorities usually donāt want to eliminate the concept of race.
Now Iām just enjoying marveling at your unwillingness to acknowledge that you might have had room to improve your understanding of something and trying to cast ātrans people didnāt choose their genderā as transphobia of all things. And in defense of āsocialization is hard, I donāt want to be politeā of all things.
My point was never that gender shouldnāt exist
Just that I think it is a thing that should go away
Aight.
I will have a nice life. I hope you sit and have a good think deaf_fish who likes the C programming language. You might realize you had some misconceptions.
Youāre confusing gender expression with gender identity, and not doing a great job at reading comprehension as well.
Transphobes think gender is synonymous with biological sex. People who almost get it think that gender is entirely independent of biology. The truth is that gender is complicated. The link I shared gives a decent overview.
Do you think trans people transition because one day they decided to on a whim? Do you think if you flipped a coin to pick a childās gender that thatās what theyād be?
Set aside that youāve decided to argue and actually think for a moment. Where do you think gender dysphoria comes from?
I donāt think your little argument is as compelling as you think. If you ask me to address you by a different name I would, and it is impolite to refuse to use someoneās preferred name.
Let me guess, your one joke is āand I identify as an attack helicopter hyuck hyuck hyuckā?
The crux of the matter seems to be that you think you shouldnāt need to be respectful to people except when it suits you, and youāre irritated people might judge you for that. Youāve also got that trumped up conservative "thereās so many rules nowadays! You canāt just make a joke anymore!ā energy.
Yes, if English never had gendered pronouns Iād still think gender as a concept would have reason to exist.
I canāt tell if you are stupid, a troll, a transphobia, or being reflexively contrarian.
My point was never that gender shouldnāt exist. And I admitted from my first post that I am willing learn peoples pronouns and address them as such (the tax comment). Just that I think it is a thing that should go away 200 years from now or so.
I donāt see any point continuing this conversation with you. Have a nice life.
In the beginning, I was trying to explain why some people donāt want to eliminate gender for the same reason racial minorities usually donāt want to eliminate the concept of race.
Now Iām just enjoying marveling at your unwillingness to acknowledge that you might have had room to improve your understanding of something and trying to cast ātrans people didnāt choose their genderā as transphobia of all things. And in defense of āsocialization is hard, I donāt want to be politeā of all things.
Aight.
I will have a nice life. I hope you sit and have a good think deaf_fish who likes the C programming language. You might realize you had some misconceptions.
I see, that was a poor wording choice on my part. I see now why I was getting some push back.
Thanks for showing that to me. I should have been more specific.