shallot [they/them, she/her]

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Cake day: December 31st, 2024

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  • This is all very interesting, but this in particular caught my eye:

    By conceding that transsexuality is inherentlyabout medicalist interventionism, you accept that gender is the social construct and sex is the biological reality–but of course, sex is just as much a socially constructed category!

    That is something that I had never considered. I’m not sure that I understand how sex is also socially constructed, unless maybe you mean that because we can change our bodies through hormone treatments and surgery? Which makes sense I suppose. I guess it could also be that we’re taking a roughly bimodal spectrum of physical characteristics and jamming them into binary categories. The more I think of it, the more it makes sense to me, although I’m not certain whether it makes sense for the right reasons or whether it just sounds plausible enough (like the misunderstanding that started this chain).

    Edit: Also the more I think about it, my second guess sounds more correct to me. The first one feels a bit too medicalist-adjacent to me, although I did not intend that.

    Sorry if my questions are annoying, you just seem to know a lot about things that I’m trying to understand better. Thank you for taking the time to write such detailed responses. I really appreciate it :)