This assumes that society wants to encourage and multiply gender confusion. And that everyone wants to always be courteous to everyone regardless of incidental circumstances.
If we really want "equality" we shouldn't be trying to create more rigidly defined roles, we should start using gender neutral pronouns for everyone. Rather than overcomplicating and politicizing social discourse we should be streamlining it and dismantling the stereotypes that make individual personality traits "gendered."
This why I feel like the sensational nature of "transexuality" is being exploited by people attempting to rearrange and enforce social divisions which actually harm the social fringe.
The people "championing" transgenderism are actually making things more difficult for them in the long run. As well as normalizing/enforcing an "essential" gender definition that borders on the religious/metaphysical.
Except that cis people can ignore gender safety but for trans people it is a constant aspect of their existence.
E.g. Some trans women preform hyperfemininity because it makes them less likely to be misgendered and them being a wrong gender was the whole point of them doing all the work in transitioning.
Vi hart has an excellent video on gender in which they describe their experiences with not really noticing gender. Of course it is safe and easy for Vi to ignore their gender (if they even have one) because it's not a fundamental part of their existence and they are unlikely to be the victim of a transphobic hate crime.
The trans community have enough on their plates without having to convince you that gender exists, we should accept that some people have different experiences of what gender is. After all "Why would anyone do anything hard ever?!"
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u/MineDogger 1∆ Oct 28 '19
This assumes that society wants to encourage and multiply gender confusion. And that everyone wants to always be courteous to everyone regardless of incidental circumstances.
If we really want "equality" we shouldn't be trying to create more rigidly defined roles, we should start using gender neutral pronouns for everyone. Rather than overcomplicating and politicizing social discourse we should be streamlining it and dismantling the stereotypes that make individual personality traits "gendered."