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[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You can tell a TRA wrote it, because supposed TERFs and transphobia argue that gender is a social construct, not that there are only two genders.

[–]hufflepuff-poet 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are billions of genders, they make up a new one (and associated flag merch) every godddamn day. There are only two sexes and only two genders that are actually part of the caste system of sex-based oppression; men and women, and maybe a third "gender" (reserved for homosexual or gender non-conforming men or priests/religious figures) in certain cultures.

If things keep going the way they are now--full steam ahead to gender woo-land, in a decade I could see non-binary being a legit "third gender" in some cultures. (At that point, I will want completely off this planet.)

The manipulation of language makes it so difficult to pushback on these ideas with normie friends who don't get the distinctions between sex and gender in TRA and GC ideas, so we wind up talking past each other.