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NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 1 year agoNo one could possibly know they were “born” with a gender.
By the time they’re old enough to have memories and concious thought, they have already been socialized.
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NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 1 year agoNo one could possibly know they were “born” with a gender.
By the time they’re old enough to have memories and concious thought, they have already been socialized.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
This response is initially persuasive but the line of reasoning doesn’t hold in other cases. For example, let’s replace gender with sexuality:
Now, we all agree that sexual identity is something you’re born with. Analogously, if we reject the idea that lack of knowledge of innate sexual identity implies sexuality is a social construct, then we should reject the argument that lack of knowledge of gender identity implies gender is a social construct.
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’d make a couple points against that
I’m Bi and don’t inherently know I was born this way. I have tons of personality and character traits that are impossible to assign to nature vs nurture, including sexual orientation.