It seems to be getting worse as well with all the pink and blue toys marketed to little girls and boys that i dont remember when i was a kid, must be hell if you already feel like your body/brain already dont match up. Not that that is trans peoples fault (quite the opposite tbh)
Gosh, wouldn't this be interesting though to see how it would influence things? Whether the same amount of individuals would want to change their sex, fewer, or more? I mean, that would really tease out the essentialist/social constructionist strands. Just as I can see how it would lead to fewer people wanting to transition, I can also definitely see how in a less gendered world more people would want to change their sex because of the taboos being lesser.
Gosh, wouldn't this be interesting though to see how it would influence things? Whether the same amount of individuals would want to change their sex, fewer, or more? I mean, that would really tease out the essentialist/social constructionist strands. Just as I can see how it would lead to fewer people wanting to transition, I can also definitely see how in a less gendered world more people would want to change their sex because of the taboos being lesser.
Shame computer modeling can't do human psychology
They clearly are important to most of us, however much we may hate the proscribed roles we're often forced to live up to (and i certainly am not a stereotypically feminine woman) I just know I'm female, and to be able to espress that internal feeling means i get treated as such. But that doesn't necessarily mean i buy into all the gender baggage women get lumbered with, I like having choice.Why on earth are genders so important?
i don't think people transition for ideological reasons. It's too bloody hard for that! My own view is that numbers would not change.Gosh, wouldn't this be interesting though to see how it would influence things? Whether the same amount of individuals would want to change their sex, fewer, or more? I mean, that would really tease out the essentialist/social constructionist strands. Just as I can see how it would lead to fewer people wanting to transition, I can also definitely see how in a less gendered world more people would want to change their sex because of the taboos being lesser.
Shame computer modeling can't do human psychology
Sorry, I wasn't suggesting that people would transition for ideological reasons. Just that given the debates (both on and outside of this thread) about whether gender norms do influence gender identity both for cis and trans individuals, it would obviously clear all that up. But obviously it's never going to happen (or at least not until a long way into the future) so it's really just an aside.
i don't think it would clear anything up. How we identify is so fundamental i don't think ideas of gender norms impact on self identity at all.
They don't - if anything we're intimidated away from women only spaces. It's taken me 18 months of being a woman to begin to feel i am able to and have any need to enter women only spaces. But as my friends and colleagues tell me, I'm a woman and I have every right to be there.
is that a joke?
its in the New Yorker so it must be true
Names, dates, quotes? All made up?
the whole article is so clearly biased against trans people that it might well be a complete fabrication.
But it isn't a complete fabrication is it?
most of us are just trying to live our lives. I enter women only spaces every day now - when i want to take a piss. I think every space that defines itself as women only should not exclude trans women, or we will quickly find ourselves being excluded more and more. And its not as if most cis women want to exclude us, because they clearly don't. It's a principle that I would fight for if it impinged on my life at all - though i'm not an activist - i support those who help to fight for my rights.
Comfortable in skin.
The opposite to trans women i.e. born as female.
I looked it up, it doesn't actually stand for that its from the Latin cis, on the same side as. Living in the gender you were born in.
