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[–][deleted] 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Shupe is fascinating because he went back to ID'ing as male and was not at all happy about the process. "...petition filed by Shupe described the sex designation of non-binary as 'psychologically harmful legal fiction.'" and "He said that his original motivation for transition was autogynephilia and that he was experiencing symptoms of psychosis when he sought a non-binary sex marker."

Queer Theory backbone: Butler, etc. What they and Money have in common is social construction. Some things are of course socially constructed, but some people think that more things can be explained by social construction than the reality. Some people go so far as to say everything is socially constructed. These are usually people with a prior activist agenda, because social construction can't stand in the way of an activist agenda, where essentialism can.

Tangential actors, like Gayle Rubin. People more directly involved like Leslie Feinberg.

All this stuff takes a lot of time to unwind and (try to) come up with a genealogy of. It could probably be a life's work. The role that the feminisms played, etc.

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I think some of them think that because words are social constructions, the things they refer to are as well.

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Yes, but they take that and run away with it.