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TinyViolins · 31-35, M
Not really
Gender, in its simplest terms, is a study of how biological sex fits into a societal or cultural atmosphere. Societies and cultures have a lot of variety between them. Biology, at least according to our chromosomes, is a lot less diverse. Some cultures recognize more than 2 genders, like the Hijra of South Asia or two-spirit individuals in certain Native American communities.
Gender, in its simplest terms, is a study of how biological sex fits into a societal or cultural atmosphere. Societies and cultures have a lot of variety between them. Biology, at least according to our chromosomes, is a lot less diverse. Some cultures recognize more than 2 genders, like the Hijra of South Asia or two-spirit individuals in certain Native American communities.
LLcoolK · 51-55, M
@TinyViolins Interestingly enough, your statement about societies and cultures having a lot of variety between them points to the relatively undisputed recognition of only two genders. Even with the many distinct differences in cultures and societies, historically all societies and cultures have overwhelmingly recognized only two genders. There has never been any serious question about the two genders. Only minute, radical fringe elements of societies have posed any question about gender.
TinyViolins · 31-35, M
@LLcoolK It's not undisputed though. Obviously given the rise in people coming out as trans. Thailand is full of transexuals. India has had Hijra for hundreds of years. Iran and Pakistan, despite being extremely Islamic, are socially accepting of trans people.
Anthropologists have studied cultures around the world and found societies with more than 2 genders on every inhabited continent. The fact that there is a rise in people identifying as transgender all around the world despite their biological sex is evidence that there is something to this phenomena beyond a radical fringe.
All I know for certain is that people are complicated. No two people are going to have the exact same set of beliefs as each other. Everybody has their own unique personalities and values and behaviors and tastes. To limit all of human mannerisms and psychology into just two categories, man or woman, doesn't seem like a useful convention. It leaves no room whatsoever for nuance. There's usually all kinds of shades of gray
Anthropologists have studied cultures around the world and found societies with more than 2 genders on every inhabited continent. The fact that there is a rise in people identifying as transgender all around the world despite their biological sex is evidence that there is something to this phenomena beyond a radical fringe.
All I know for certain is that people are complicated. No two people are going to have the exact same set of beliefs as each other. Everybody has their own unique personalities and values and behaviors and tastes. To limit all of human mannerisms and psychology into just two categories, man or woman, doesn't seem like a useful convention. It leaves no room whatsoever for nuance. There's usually all kinds of shades of gray
Panna · 22-25, F
@TinyViolins What it is a sign of is the growing psychological crisis in humanity
TinyViolins · 31-35, M
@Panna What exactly makes it a crisis? I've known and worked with at least a dozen trans people in my years and their behavior is normal. In all the interactions I've had, I can't identify anything to indicate that trans people are a menace to or otherwise impediment on society.
If anything, the loathing and dismissiveness that I see get directed towards them by "normal" people does more to ruin my faith in humanity
If anything, the loathing and dismissiveness that I see get directed towards them by "normal" people does more to ruin my faith in humanity