Ok, it's time to update the rules

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[–]HeimdeklediROAR 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

If they’re using it in a transmedicalist way to exclude people who haven’t gotten surgeries or hrt like I have? Yes I would be equally put off. If they’re using it as a gender label equivalent to the term “woman”? Then no I wouldn’t be put off.

[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You can’t accept male or female being just a biological term though, like it can only be transmedicalist or gender term? Does using it in a different way make the word real? I guess I feel like biology can be neutral and not wanting to accept biology is usually because of it being invalidating towards your gender feelings, which seems to be in line with your answer. If you would be okay with female, it’s seems clear it’s about gender feelings.

[–]HeimdeklediROAR 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Not really. I don’t consider the use of “male” and “female” to be appropriate when used to describe biology because I believe that sex is a spectrum. Applying it to me therefore is exactly the same as applying “cis” to GC people, as neither of us thinks those terms are being legitimately used (presumably GC has no problems with the terms in chemistry). I accept biology and that sex traits exist I just disagree with the binary sex paradigm that classifies that biology into one of two idealized boxes. I would be fine with “female” as a gender term just as I am fine with “women” as a gender term, because again the issue I have is with the use of the terms is trying to apply an ideology that I don’t believe in too me, not the terms in and of themselves.

This is all I’ll say further on the matter as this topic is not the topic of the post, and I don’t want to derail the discussion. No offense of course :)

[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for explaining! I won’t ask anything else.