Not so much.
Sex and gender are distinct elements. So whilst theyâre not the same thing, they do interact with each other and influence each other to some extent or another. If they didnât, then the world wouldnât be full of people whose gender and sex are in alignment. For that matter, if they didnât, we wouldnât even understand the concept of sex and gender being in alignment.
Also, âtransgenderismâ is a term popular with transphobes, because it frames trans people as a belief/ideology, rather than acknowledging their identity.
no non-sapient creature can ever be trans, because you need consciousness to have a gender identity in the first place.
But for all of that, strictly speaking, this is true.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨day⊠ago
What am I supposed to call it, when talking about this as a concept, outside of referring to a specific person. Transgendericity? Transgenderology?
Throw me a bone here, donât just insinuate Iâm a transphobe just because I casually tossed âismâ onto the end of a word to noun-ify it in a sentence, without even offering a correction.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone â¨1⊠â¨day⊠ago
damnedfurry@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨day⊠ago
Okay, so if I want a single word, âtransgenderalityâ? That really just sounds bizarre, I have to say. Not to mention Iâve never seen any person talking about trans issues ever say/write that.
Thatâs only one way that suffix is used, and itâs assumption on your part that when you see that suffix, that thatâs the way itâs being used. In other words, I think you should allow for the possibility that it ainât that deep. Was it not obvious from the context of what/how I was writing that I wasnât coming from a transphobic place?
-ism is used for all sorts of nouns that simply describe a state of being (e.g. autism, alcoholism, absenteeism), and thatâs all I aimed for. And from what you said in your comment, it seems like this is uncharted territory, if thereâs no actual single word term regularly employed for this particular state of beingâall of your examples are multiple words.
P.S. By the way, I donât really care if something inherently benign is popular among shitty peopleâin my opinion, all the more reason to take it away from them, by using it benignly more often than they use it pejoratively. It was successfully done with âqueerâ, I say keep that train running!