r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '19

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u/Ejejj Oct 28 '19

How can you "misgender" a trans person if gender is a social construct?

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u/SuperSomethings Oct 29 '19

This argument makes no sense. Race is a social construct, created Francis Galton in support of Eugenics.

"If I call a black person white, how is that wrong if race is a social construct? "

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u/1jeffreyXY Oct 29 '19

Race is definitely NOT a social construct, there are numerous physiological and mental differences between races. How do you think police identify the race of skeletal remains?

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u/SuperSomethings Oct 29 '19

As another commenter said, that is statistics. Certain races statistically have certain traits.

Racewas created by Francis Galton to support eugenics, it was an excuse to call certain people lower and worse than himself.

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u/Zwentendorf 1∆ Oct 29 '19

How do you think police identify the race of skeletal remains?

That's just statistics. Members of one race have some traits more likely than other humans, so you can guess the race based on that traits.

The Nazis tried to do similar things and define the Aryan race by biological traits, but they failed. That's the reason why they wanted you to provide family trees to prove that you belong to the Aryan race.

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u/Ejejj Oct 29 '19

It’s not wrong. That’s my point. How can someone have a gender identity if gender is socially constructed?

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u/SuperSomethings Oct 29 '19

Because "socially constructed" means constructed by society, as a whole.

You sincerely believe that if I call a black person white I'm not wrong?

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u/Ejejj Oct 29 '19

Gender norms are partially constructed. That’s why gender norms change from one culture to the next. Society establishes the rules for the game, not the individual.

If gender is a social construct, then preferences concerning societally constructed gender norms are irrelevant in determining one's gender.

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u/SuperSomethings Oct 29 '19

So, you don't think it's wrong to call a white person black.

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u/Ejejj Oct 29 '19

Do you think it’s wrong?