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[–]emptiedriver 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You can see that people have so many gender identities, they feel they are...

We used to just call that "personality". No one is saying it doesn't exist to have various feelings and preferences. The point is just that it has nothing to do with the category of sex, which is a basic biological fact of our species. Everyone who is born has a male parent and a female parent. Everyone who is born has a body which will either be able to be a male parent or a female parent when they mature (except for the occasional disability or mutation but that is still usually based on one or the other reproductive system, not some third option).

Is it "just" based on procreation? YES. That's what sex is: sexual reproduction. If you don't care about sexual reproduction, great, that's not the point. You still have a body which is capable of one or the other sides of the continuance of our species. That comes with certain specific distinctions that make a category and have created a history. Which body you have is which sex you are.

[–]kwallio 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So much of the gender crap just seems like a subculture to me. Instead of being goth or punk or whatever they've decided to do..this.