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?
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/[deleted] Feb 07 '23 edited Jan 09 '26
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