@TheKingOfRhye #235950, @Timjer #235964
No, he’s not confusing anything. He clearly states what he means in the original post:
- There are two sexes
- Gender is just your personality
- Sex atypical brain ≠ transgender
- No such thing as “gender identity”
In other words, he clearly distinguishes between ‘sex’, ‘gender’, and ‘gender identity’. That’s not the issue.
The issue is in the claims he makes about them, as well as the underlying implications.
- Gender is just your personality
I’d say that this is even kinda right — yes, gender (as in gender identity!) is, basically, a part of your personality, since it’s a mental feature of who you are.
But then he says “No such thing as ‘gender identity’”, which… kind of contradicts the thing he just said about gender.
“No such thing as ‘gender identity’” might make sense if understood within the context of TERF ideology, but while TERFs would agree with that statement, they would NOT agree with “Gender is just your personality”.
Because to TERFs, ‘gender’ means ‘oppressive gender roles and norms pushed upon us by society’, and ONLY that.
They might agree with “’gender identity’ is just your personality”, if they don’t outright state that it just plain doesn’t exist — which most of them would.
That, if anything, is the confusing part — he seems to be trying to apply TERF ideology to the terms, but managed to mix it up and make an incoherent mess instead.
