My unpopular opinion - Gender and biological sex mean the SAME thing

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[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 17 insightful - 5 fun17 insightful - 4 fun18 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

I disagree, because this leads to "truscum" rhetoric (my "gender" is X so therefore my biological sex is the same as my "gender"). Gender as a word for social constructs is not a TRA thing. Seperating the two is exactly what TRAs DON'T want. They need them to be muddled for their ideology to gain traction; they want people to believe that your "gender" is the same as your sex, ie if you're male but like "girly" things and "behave like a girl", you're actually female.

[–]mangosplums 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Without the concept of gender, you cannot identify as anything other than what your biology is. If you have a penis and facial hair, your sex is male/man and if you have a vagina and boobs, your sex is female/woman. If you are uncomfortable with your sex, you can attempt to change it through hormones and body modification, but you obviously can never fully do it. It’s the creation of the concept of gender that creates two categories, one tied to the body and one not tied to the body. There doesn’t need to be a category not tied to the body at all. Before Judith Butler (a second wave feminist) reappropriated the word gender, it was just a euphemism for sex. It was used because people were too prudish to actually say the word sex. It should have just stayed a euphemism for sex, because the other meaning is hogwash.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not really, it was John Money, paedo doctor sexologist, who made cruel experiments on kids, and changed definition of word "gender", and started gender theory, then some years after few feminist writer used it, but some time later other radical feminists dropped it as inapropriate (as you can not say "oppression is based on sexual reproduction" and at the same time "oppression is based on 'role of a woman' played by women"), and later it was used by genderqueer theoretics, who completely changed meaning of word gender. Sometimes I still see radical feminists believing in this, but most radical feminists (especially GC ones) are against the use of the word and want to abolish it. Nowadays it is mostly liberal feminists who are using it, but liberal feminists are all about men empowerment, I am not sure why they are called feminists at all.