When you disagree with “gender is a social construct” in a casual setting, intentionally or not, you’re conveying the statement “gender is innately tied to biological sex, there are precisely two, and trans people are invalid”.
Wild to see such a binary view on this given the context. How can this be taken to be any less constraining (to someonen who views gender as a spectrum) than the view that “there are only two biological genders”?
Dandelion is giving examples on how it is not necessarily a social construct and providing examples and sources. That portions of gender have a propensity to be tied to biological sex.
I think there’s a conflation of terms here. There’s Big G Gender, and little g individual-gender-identity.
Genders are social constructs. “Girls like pink and ponies” is not tied to anything except culture.
Your gender identity however, is absolutely not a social construct. Otherwise people wouldn’t be raised as one gender, live that way for decades and then figure out that the reason things have felt “wrong” is because they’ve been living a gender that doesn’t fit.
The given examples were about gender identity, how that’s correlated with biology, and how it’s more than just how you present yourself to the world.
Conflating Gender and gender identity can lead to a lot of confusion.
Wild to see such a binary view on this given the context. How can this be taken to be any less constraining (to someonen who views gender as a spectrum) than the view that “there are only two biological genders”?
Dandelion is giving examples on how it is not necessarily a social construct and providing examples and sources. That portions of gender have a propensity to be tied to biological sex.
I think there’s a conflation of terms here. There’s Big G Gender, and little g individual-gender-identity.
Genders are social constructs. “Girls like pink and ponies” is not tied to anything except culture.
Your gender identity however, is absolutely not a social construct. Otherwise people wouldn’t be raised as one gender, live that way for decades and then figure out that the reason things have felt “wrong” is because they’ve been living a gender that doesn’t fit.
The given examples were about gender identity, how that’s correlated with biology, and how it’s more than just how you present yourself to the world.
Conflating Gender and gender identity can lead to a lot of confusion.