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Am I a gender abolitionist?

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RepeatAfterUs · 14/07/2018 20:30

Hi I'm a long time lurker.

Ive been thinking a while-what is the actual point of gender? It is only beneficial to those in power. No one complies fully with gender - it's like a set of rules saying "you have a penis/vulva so this is how you must behave". How backwards!

So I get that some people experience what would probably be better termed sex dysphoria and wish to "change" their sex (in so far as that is possible).

Surely tho many of us GC women could be said to have gender dysphoria. I don't like many aspects of the gender society has imposed on me as a female although I accept that as a person in my 40s I've received a lot of conditioning that would be hard to undo.

I just don't understand trans gender. I understand trans sexual but we are told transgender people aren't necessarily suffering with GD nor do they wish to change their genitals. So when those people say they feel like a woman they're saying they feel like the gender that is imposed upon women. Which is not an actual woman but a stereotype of one. Which many many women don't actually want anything to do with and the last thing we need is for it to be pandered to.

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RepeatAfterUs · 14/07/2018 20:49

Glad to hear it! I'm fed up with forms asking for my gender. I feel like saying-what is it you actually want to know? How much like Barbie I am?!

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SmellyHead · 14/07/2018 20:45

I completely agree. I must be a gender abolitionist too.

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