GC: Are we reducing people to their reproductive organs/ability? Is gender identity a mental illness? And if so, what are the similarities between gender identity and other mental illnesses?

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[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

When we say sex is determined by gametes, or sex organs, are we reducing people to their body parts and reproductive organs/ability?

How is it saying that? How do you find that message? No, it’s not reducing anyone to anything.

Reducing womanhood would be saying that it’s a preference for feminine coded objects that males can have. Reducing womanhood would be men saying that the only thing women should/can do/aspire to childbirth and child rearing.

How is knowing what male and female mean reductive? Please explain your bizarre questions.

How is homosexuality related in any way, shape, or form related to someone either believing gender norms so hard they think they need to be the other sex or such intense hatred of their body that they need to think they are the other sex? What’s the common factor that makes them sensible things to compare.

One is a sexuality, the other is distress over material reality and deeply ingrained adherence to culturally dictated sexed roles.

[–]ColoredTwiceIntersex female, medical malpractice victim, lesbian 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

It is like saying that human are bipedal is reducing humans to our legs.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

I’ve been told so many times that humans are ackshually not bipedal specifically because of amputations or limb ameliorations/duplications lmao.

If we acknowledge that it’s typical to have armpit hair are we armpit hair essentialist?

Reducing humans to some physical feature because to the people asking, a person is empty inside and their identifiers are what they have instead of personalities, interests, relationships, or anything that isn’t interesting to Twitter. A physical identifier being reductive makes sense if you’re already reducing everyone to a performance.

[–]ColoredTwiceIntersex female, medical malpractice victim, lesbian 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Reducing people to their body parts or functions is when saying "birthing bodies need abortion rights and menstruators need to fight against taboo around menstruation" - when it could be just said "females/women need abortion rights and to fight against taboo around menstruation".

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yessss! The birthing people/menstruators/people who get pregnant nonsense that tra insists on is what reduces people to their ability to gestate.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Lol you think tras see women as people? /s

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Well feminism IS for whales.