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Why aren't transactivists gender-critical?

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oxcat1 · 15/06/2021 11:24

Please go easy on me if this is a stupid question.

If gender is simply the socially constructed expectations of how people should behave and dress, why isn't the trans movement gender critical? Surely to break down these societal expectations is in their interests (just as it is in the interest of women, feminists argue)?

Instead, the trans movement seeks to enshrine in law the very structure that makes living their own lives as they wish, free from constraints of societal expectations, so very difficult.

Why is that? Or have I totally misunderstood?

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WarriorN · 15/06/2021 11:40

No such thing as a stupid question! 😄

You're right, there is no logic at all.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 15/06/2021 11:38

Because the whole ideology is founded in sex stereotypes, if they didn't exist there would only be a tiny number of people with a serious psychological condition.

LewishamMum · 15/06/2021 11:34

Totally agree with you. I personally find the trans flag offensive too. Pale pink for women? Puke puke puke

Datun · 15/06/2021 11:31

You haven't misunderstood. There is no logical coherence. It's quite true that it is necessary to cement gender roles, in order to travel from one to the other.

That's why the notion that it is gender busting, is actually the opposite to reality.

A male can dress in a feminine way, act in a feminine way, where clothes normally associated with women, and that is gender busting. Saying it makes him a woman, is gender cementing.

Imnobody4 · 15/06/2021 11:31

Beats me. Think it must be to do with QueerTheory and subverting norms. The emphasis is on 'subversion' and 'transgression' and you can't do that without the norms. Like being non binary is dependent on there being a binary in the first place.

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