QT oriented question but anyone can comment: How much of a choice do we have over our gender identity (assuming for the sake of argument that gender identity exists in all people)?

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[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Your points make sense. My experience will always be different. I only understand things like tampon tax or pregnancy from the perspectives of my friends, which is different than experiencing them personally. I empathize on those issues so they are things I care about even though they don’t, by themselves, change much for me. Like, when I was in college I was involve in fighting for reproductive rights and I still am. I feel like we are all in this together though so we are all affected by those things, even if I’m not as directly as my friends.

Yes, I read Invisible Women over the summer. I feel like I already knew the world isn’t designed for women, but it really opened my eyes to areas I hadn’t thought of before, like crash testing and workplace hazards. We have such a long way to go. 🙁

[–]VioletRemihomosexual female (aka - lesbian) 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I feel like we are all in this together though so we are all affected by those things, even if I’m not as directly as my friends.

Well, obviously yes. Nothing can be achieved without allies, and especially allies who are holding the power. Like, for example here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Switzerland

Previous referendum [on women's vote rights] was held on 1 February 1959 and was rejected by the majority (67%) of Switzerland's men.

And women were not able to vote, obviously. So yeah, women in some European countries gained rights to own stuff and open bank accounts just 30 years ago or even less far. We just recently barely got any real rights in some countries (majority of the world is not Western world, and some countries "pro-women" changes are just eyebrow raising - like reading news "in SA by new law now women would get an SMS when they are got married on someone or divorced", wtf, it is still done without her consent and presense, but now at least she know, lol), and there is already this huge misogynyc backlash and attempts to remove any rights from us again.

Question was about other thing, tho.