such as like this:
The concept of gender identity is said to be real as an experience, (like how theists claim to see god [a claim basically]), but scientifically under-defined, weakly grounded biologically, and sometimes treated as more fixed or explanatory than current evidence justifies.
I have tried to get my point across before, but was labeled a transphobe. I have no issue with trans people and wish them all the best in their pursuit of happiness. I understand the issue they face: Society put them in one of two gender categories, and they don’t feel that’s where they belong. That’s a valid issue in my eyes.
I just don’t really see the current approach fixing this. Its like we saw that there was an issue with racism, but instead of abolishing it, we added more categories like “race-fluid”.
In my eyes, the root issue is the concept of gender identities, and how big a role they play in our day to day lifes. Why does the way people address me (sir/madam, he/she) depend on my gender identity? Why does every form I fill out ask for my gender identity? Why are so many things separated by gender?
I’d like to see a post-gender society, where we don’t need pronouns. Where there is no concept of gender identity, because everyone is just themselves.
Instead of staying inside the box, adding classification after classification, I think we should leave the box and stop assigning a gender identity to every one of us.
That would be great, but it still doesn’t address dysphoria, which is actually about sex, not gender, despite the name. We use “gender” to refer both to the societal roles that you (and I) want to abolish and to the sex characteristics that a person wants their body to have.
While I agree that the enforcement of social norms that leads to being transgender is the ultimate root cause, the current approach of self identification has the exact same positive outcome as getting rid of gender norms without needing to undo all of human history.
No more identity politics