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[–]BiologyIsReal 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

1) I'm GC because sex is binary and immutable for humans. I think sexism and misogyny are rooted in sex. I reject the idea women must be a XYZ way and must be an ABC way. I don't think anyone can identify out of their oppression.

2) Nope. I just became more aware with the issues at hand.

3) A woman is an adult human female and a man is a adult human male.

4) They are men and women respectively.

5) I think the terms natal women and biological women are redundant. I reject cis because it implies that I believe in "gender identity", that I conform and agree with sex roles and stereotypes and that sexism is not rooted in sex.

6) Males have an athletic advantage over females regardless of how the former identify. That is why there are sex categories in sports. Technically, some men's sport categories are open to anyone, so trans females could compete there if they want.

7) Misgendering is refering to someone by their sex rather than how they may identify. I think a belief in gender identity is aking to a religious belief because gender identity can't be externally determined, unlike sex. People are free to believe in this stuff if they want, but they don't have a right to force their beliefs in everyone else.

8) Sex is a biological category based on what reproductive role a kind of individuals of a given species has. Female is the sex that produces large gametes (eggs) and male is the sex that produces small gametes (sperm). In humans, sex is determined at conception based on your sex chromosomes (XY are males and XX are females).

Gender refers to what society expect from someone based in their sex. Tbh, I don't like the word gender because I think it's only make things more confusing.

9 & 10) I don't really talk about this stuff IRL. I know some people who are QT leaning. I think my family and friends mostly don't believe in transgenderism, but I wouldn't say they are exactly GC.

11) I think they are neither. Though, based in past interactions in this forum, I think the QT/transmed is not as straightforward.

12) Disagreeing with someone is not the same that denyng their existence.

Extra) I'm a straight woman from South America. Last year, I found some radical feminist websites while looking for criticism of sex positivism that didn't came from a sexist or religious viewpoint. There I saw some articles about transgenderism that picked my interest and that is how I learnt about all the changes that were happening.

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1) I'm more GC because it's more based on reality and I see those beliefs and values being more protective of more people and QT views as more harmful. The idealist in me would favor a world where anything could be anything, and in a certain sense I do believe it can.

2) I suppose I had more QT views beforehand, just because I was ignorant and didn't think anyone was being harmed by them.

3) men are adult human males, women are adult human females

4) transwomen are males, transmen are females

5) I don't really have any feelings on "cis", other that now that I know some people don't like being called that that I would rather abstain from using it (it's just synonymous with non-trans in my mind, so I just say that). "Biological" and "natal" seem like a way to maybe ease the sting of gender dysphoria for those who live with it, they're a way to be mindful of a trans person's self-perception of what sex they belong to; I prefer to use them because it's honestly still a shock to me that I'm male, and if I can soften that shock in any way, then I'd like to do that.

6) Not without disadvantages and advantages inherent to sex, no I don't believe so.

7) "Misgendering" is when a person is deliberately addressed or referred to as being a member of their sex when they would prefer to be addressed or thought of as a member of the opposite sex or having no sex at all.

8) Gender is a summation of behavior attributed to sex as either boy or girl, woman or man. Sex is a summation of qualities attributed to reproduction.

9) I'm still a bit new to these ideas and this dichotomy, but I think I know people who lean heavily towards both camps, all of them friends and family. My friends and family all probably lean a bit more towards being QT, I think out of striving to be tolerant and open-minded, but even they hold some GC views. I don't know anyone in my life who is dead-set in either area of thinking.

10) They tend to treat me very well, especially the more I get to talking with them! 😊

11) I think transmedicalists are much more GC than QT, but they are generally averse to embracing the desire to eventually eliminate transsexualism altogether. Generally.

12) I wish QT understood that the desire to prevent transsexualism and gender dysphoria is one of compassion, not hatred

Extra (optional--Put N/A if you choose not to answer, it's okay)

1) Homosexual

2) Transwoman / biological man

3) North America

4) I learned about GC a couple months ago after working on connecting with other trans people online in regards to trauma and discovered transmedicalism and truscum. I learned a post I made on Reddit was shared on a site for radfems (who I knew of as a different name) and thought that they hated trans people because that's what I had been told, but discovered that wasn't really the case. I got to talking with them and making friends and finding I agreed with everything they were saying, so here I am!