posted by O-Trap
Perfect. I was actually hoping there would be someone who delineated between biological sex and gender identity.
If biological sex is determined, as the term indicates, biologically, how would gender identity be determined? And if it's not biologically, then is it even predetermined?
If you've not given much thought to it, or if you don't have an answer, that's okay. I assure you this isn't intended as some sort of "gotcha" line of questions. They're ones I've been tossing around for a few years, and I can't say I've come up with good answers to them.
As for the Frontline, I'll give that a watch this evening. I'm curious to see where it goes.
I guess that is the big question and a great one how is gender determined? I don't know is my quick and simple answer. In my discussions with folks that are Trans, they just said they just felt from an early age they were a different gender. Is that biological or does that come from stimulus when we are a baby and exposed to items that state boys act like this and girls act like this, I'm not sure. Maybe it is more a mixture of both, both the makeup of the brain and how the person is raised, and other factors like type of household, etc.
I will say it has lead me to question the stupidity of how gender is ingrained on babies. Boys are blue and girls are pink and shit like that. That seems like a modern social construct that I feel more and more of my friends are moving away from. Who says boys have to behave this way or girls a certain way when they are babies or kids? I feel more and more people are just neutral about it and just let the kid figure it out.
My long term rake on it is as a society we are ever changing and more open to things that have always been there, just in the shadows. Trans is the latest in the long line like other taboo social issues.
posted by Spock
most of these posts are TL;DR but what I cant stand about this topic is that the people with this mental health disorder thinks that EVERYONE should conform to them.
THe pronoun police are the worst. Dont force your behaviors on me and we are fine.
That's fine I guess, but the argument I have heard from folks is if you do not call them by their respective pronoun you do not see who they really are and not seeing them as a full person. To you, they are just odd, not right and you are not giving them the proper respect in a conversation.
I would almost equate it, thought not totally, to a white person calling a black person boy.