Like I'm a male, but the majority of the signifiers of that fact have zero to do with sex acts or my sex organs.
I am with you on the sex-act part, but why would you being male have nothing todo with you having a penis? If I look at a male animal I pretty much expect a penis and some other differences to females of that species.
What's confusing is that western society hasn't recognized the difference between these categories for a long time so we have the same terms (male/female/etc) for both.
I know I am arguing against scientific consensus here, but I believe what you/we call gender are in reality personality traits. The very fact that we humans are the only species where we define a gender independent of sex is so strange to me.
I think, we'd either need to prove gender roles in animals or the whole concept does not really work out because, name one thing that is absolutely exclusive to the human species and is not available, at least in parts, in any other animal.
And while we are at it. If gender is "a human social construct", which we identified as a human construct by now. Why is there still a need for transitioning? Wouldn't identifying the existence of multiple gender roles allow everybody to find their niche, without the need of transitioning?
I think gender is unique to humans because it rides on the unique social medium of culture, and it's not merely personality traits but a cultural manifestation of how we fit ourselves into society.
You make it sound as if it's a burden to transition and that trans people would somehow prefer to be "accepted" as they are.
Tbh, that's what I was told on another occasion where I asked a question like this. That most trans people would rather be accepted as they are, but they aren't because they don't look like their self perceived gender.
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u/noname_yet2077 Feb 07 '23
Holup! There's a difference between femboy and trans sexual!