You can define "gender" as whatever you want it to be, but it is meaningless and irrelevant if anyone can be anything they want. But you didn't engage with the point I made, that the words "woman" and "man" are not defined in terms of "gender", they are defined in terms of sex, female or male.
Sex is not a spectrum, it's a simple binary that everyone learns in school. This is a very simple explanation of why it is a binary not a spectrum :
The goal of postmodernism.
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I don't want to take away your hope or your trans identity. All I am saying is that you cannot just decide to call yourself a woman, because being a woman is a lot more than how you feel about yourself and necessarily involves quite a bit of biology.
I am very much in favor of safe spaces, sports categories, etc for trans identified people if they feel they need it. But women also need their own safe spaces, sports categories, etc which are exclusive to us. Invading those spaces is not fair to us. Invading lesbian safe spaces and then kicking us out of them because we are only interested in relationships with biological women is not fair to us. Go make "transbian" communities if you want, we would not complain, we are not oppressing you. But stop appropriating us and kicking us out of our own house.
If you cannot find the answers through reflection alone, then perhaps counselling is the solution. Others, especially trained psychiatrists, may be able to help you see solutions that are indistinct or invisible from your current point of view.
If gender is a social construct, then different people can have different opinions on whether it is a social construct, which can be debated, correct?
And if by gender you actually mean "stereotypes of the roles and behaviors of people of different sexes in society" then the words "woman" and "man" are not defined in terms of those stereotypes, so cannot simply be claimed by changing your role or behavior or simply declaring it to be so. They are defined in terms of biological sex.
Brazil feuds with social media platforms to censor Brazilians
From Americas Frontline Doctors
Tech giants slam βFake Newsβ law
May 2nd 2023 11:03am EDT
Source Link: https://frontline.news/post/brazil-feuds-with-social-media-platforms-to-censor-brazilians
I found this part amusing:
"The Communist Party member added that censorship, in fact, is central to freedom of expression."
Well no, it only affects the cattle and people who eat them.
There is no (or very little) violence against trans people's physical existence. Trans activists have popularized a notion that there is a genocide happening to wipe out trans people, this is the same populist intox that the far right use (great replacement theory, great reset theory, etc).
Arguing against an ideology is not violence, and if you believe that your entire existence and identity is at risk because it depends on an ideology that can be disproved, then perhaps you should consider not basing your existence and identity on an ideology.
I am not telling you that you are a monster.
Not liking yourself as you are is something that you can work on, and more positively than pretending to be something that you are not. Through counselling or through #stoicism you can learn to come to terms with yourself. This is the healthy outcome. Creating a fantasy version of yourself and then claiming that you are that thing because you "self-identify" as it is not healthy, it is a delusion, just like people going around claiming to be Jesus.
Nobody "gave you an identity at birth" - your sex was determined by the chromosomes in your DNA when you were conceived, and observed at birth. Your sex, just like your age or your race, is inherently part of your identity and important to determine the kinds of medical conditions that may affect you among many other things.
I would encourage you to find confidence in your actual lived reality rather than trying to live a lie, that is the only way you will truly find happiness as you will always know deep down when you are deluding yourself. That doesn't mean you shouldn't wear dresses if you want to - wear whatever you want, but don't try to claim that it changes what you are.
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Of course, everyone is who they claim to be.
Outrageous that anyone would doubt their word!