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[–]SnowAssMan 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sex & gender are two different things, remember?

First things first, pro-gender/anti-sex rhetoric monopolises the discourse, so we've got to clear up the discrepancies between terms & definitions that this debate invariably runs into.

Gender: masculinity, femininity

Sex: male, female

Sometimes 'gender' refers to the sexes, like 'gender reveal party' or 'gender inequality'.

Sex is binary, gender is a spectrum

Female & feminine are not the same thing

Sex & preferred sex are different in trans people

Socialised gender & felt gender are in conflict in transgender people

Trans people aren’t intersex, they are at best “intergender”, their sex is binary. Their gender is also binary for the most part (but not in an affirming way). Their gendered behavioural trends are consistent with their sex (one of my recent posts demonstrated this with links to the relevant evidence).

Using the term "assigned at birth" to describe trans people is therefore appropriation of intersex terminology. The average trans person's sex is as unambiguous as the average "cis" person's is.

The trans movement in general is set on appropriation of gender identity. Sex abolitionists insist that transgender males be referred to as women, their experiences: womanhood, their marginalisation: "transmisogyny". It even hijacked the black lives matter protests into "trans-womxyn are women" chants. It engages in parasitic activism on the regular. Just look at the state of the LGBTQ+ movement, or the progressive movement.

London taxi drivers have London taxi driver brains AFTER gaining 'the knowledge'. Get back to me once they've scanned the brains of people who haven't discovered they are trans & then used the info to accurately predicted their transition.

Gay men's brains have similarities to straight women's brains. Is this evidence that gay men are straight women? If not, why is the same information being touted as evidence that transgender males are women? Also what about the rest of the brain? Why cherry pick the bit you like? Take all the evidence together. If you are looking at a brain that has everything in common with a male brain with a tiny exception, then how does that make the person a binary woman?

Binary transgenderism is covered within academia, but there is nothing official on the other genders. They are the product of a teen sub-culture appropriating the trans identity. Think back to the 70s when everyone was obsessed with star signs, or in the early 2000s when girls were emos. On the one hand it helps to normalise transgender identities, but it also undermines them, by being illegitimate. This mostly affects girls, so even if they all detransitioned, it wouldn't cause a major upset in the trans lobby's plans, because teen girls are a demographic that no one cares about (as the general indifference to the demographic's mounting numbers over the decades of eating disorders, suicide attempts & other forms of self-harm have demonstrated).

[–]ColoredTwiceIntersex female, medical malpractice victim, lesbian 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To clarify few things:

Intersex people sex is binary as well. Word intersex sounds really misleading.

"Assigned at birth" was a medical malpractice, that was leading to IGM and a lot of harm to intersex people. It is not practiced anymore.

[–]SnowAssMan 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you for the clarification. I knew it already, but I guess my saying: "Trans people aren’t intersex, their sex is binary" implied something I didn't mean.