If you truly believe that men and women shouldn't have to be limited by stereotypes, then the concept of gender identity is useless.
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I'm not really sure if I understand the argument, but my first impression was: if stereotypes are really that, stereotypes, leave them aside for a moment when recognizing the fluidity of human diversity?
@Croquemitaine #141064
it’s based on the TERF-ideology, which thinks “gender identity” means identifying with the gender stereotypes. So a trans man/trans woman is “really” just a woman/man “identifying” with the gender stereotypes attributed to men/women. Therefore so TERFs believe, if we got rid of gender stereotypes trans people would cease to exist.
@Croquemitaine #141064
For example, they think that if parents find that their boy wants to play with Barbie Dolls, or their girl wants to play with trucks, the parents are inventing a transgender condition. That he wants to be a she, she wants to be a he, because that’s enforcing a stereotype, forcing a sex change on a kid that just wants to play with different toys than they’re ‘supposed’ to.
@Taln_Reich #141069
If being a woman means wearing high heels and make-up, then I am not a woman. So what am I, TERF?
Edited to add: I am not calling Taln_Reich a TERF. Just wanted to make that clear.
@Sasha #141086
For that. They just go by what genitals (they think) you were born with. So someone born with a penis/a vagina is, from the TERF-viewpoint, always a man/a woman. The problem with this, is that they entirely ignore gender identity, invalidating trans people.
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