Trans people would still be a thing without socially defined gender roles. Even without gender, my sex was still wrong - my brain still told me, in times like trying to get comfortable to fall asleep, that my boobs weren’t supposed to be there.
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samus12345@lemmy.world 1 week agoA person’s sex is science, but their gender is a social construct. I sometimes wonder if trans people would even be a thing if there were no socially defined gender roles (or assumed gendered language) and people could just be who they are. I suspect there would not be as there wouldn’t be anything to be “trans” from.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Mm, that’s a good point - being uncomfortable in your own skin isn’t a problem that would go away.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Even sex is not the black and white dichotomy most people make it out to be. The way we define and dictate someone’s sex isn’t reproducible for everyone. The intersex population is larger than what most people assume, and can vary in ways that defy the way we normally evaluate sex. It can range from someone having different chromosomal pairings, to having a varied arrangement of secondary sexual organs.
Anyone saying that someone’s sex is scientifically dependent on “x” is either ignorant, or academically dishonest.
yetiftw@lemmy.world 1 week ago
arguably science itself has been constructed in a social context ie a social construct
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 1 week ago
It is definitely limited by the cultural understanding of linguistical norms. Because the language we utilize in the methodology predates it, the language itself can limit most people’s conceptual understanding of whatever topic you are utilizing the methodology on.
Accurate communication is hard.
yetiftw@lemmy.world 1 week ago
thank you leto ii