#sex is not gender

[andersunmenschlich]

I recently laughed at an individual who, in addition to conflating sex and gender, didn't even know what "conflate" meant.

That may have been unnecessarily cruel. I certainly enjoyed it enough for it to be.

Nonetheless, I figure I'd better clear up the issue. It's not the first time I've run into someone with less English experience than I have. Pointing and laughing, while fun, doesn't really help anything.

So.

Basic definition: if you conflate two things, you think they're the same thing.

With conflation, you take two or more separate things and combine them into a single whole, all melted and fused together, inseparable.

For example, say you've conflated color and shape such that you think only triangles are blue. A circle can never be blue! It's a circle, which means it's red! You think a circle can become a triangle? Ha! You might say it's blue, but it is not a triangle, which means that it's red and will always be red!

I would like to trust that the metaphor here is obvious.

.

...But I don't. I don't trust that.

I've talked to too many people.

People who have conflated gender and sex such that they think only people with XX chromosomes are women. A person with XY chromosomes can never be a woman! He's XY, which means he's a man! You think an XY person can become an XX one? Ha! He might say he's a woman, but he is not XX, which means that he's a man and will always be a man!

Of course, circles can be blue. Even if their shape never changes, even if it's impossible for their shape to change, they can still totally be blue!

And people with XY chromosomes can be women.

Even if their chromosomes never change—even if it's impossible for their chromosomes to change—so what?

Sex is not gender.

Shape is not color.

.

I hope this metaphor has been simple enough for at least one person who didn't get it before to understand the basic concept of a physical, biological thing being different from a social role or psychological sense of identity.

[hattersarts]

im already at the south downs cottage guys, catch up

[minecraft]

Did y'all know that Elon Musk's Twitter recently added LGBTQ terms (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Transgender, Queer) to it's "offensive words" list - meaning that links to tweets with words containing them aren't previewed in twitter DMs and are generally de-boosted (shown to less people) by the website? Did you also know there exists a character called the zero-width non joiner that you can copy and paste in-between letters of any keyword so that the keyword visually looks the same but isn't automatically seen by the algorithm as containing a keyword?

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[nataliejuliana]

I’m available for fun 🤩

Reboot and Hit me up if you’re interested 😉😘

[froody]

more than once????? lol?????

[justdavina]

Oh .... Such a sexy transgender woman! I can't take my eyes off of her! Those amazing boobies are just hypnotizing! All I want to do is hold her and kiss those amazing breasts for hours. And those sexy glasses ...Don't take those off... Sorry, I'm a pig. Please don't hate me....

[lilithism1848]

[bikini-kill-pilled]

sometimes i just brood about how i can't walk around shirtless in public, which is such a simple privilege males have over females that really shouldn't mean much. however, it's impossible for me to rebel against this expectation on my own; the reason i don't just say "fuck it" and walk out shirtless is because i would become a sexual object to every man i see. the intent i had would be hijacked by the male gaze, if that makes sense.

i also see this hijacking thing happen with sexual liberation, where women were/are trying to reclaim their agency and right to have sed with whoever, but many men don't see it like that. they just see women they can have sex with, and the meaning is lost on them.

this observation has always frustrated me and it just sucks that you can see the pattern in a lot of aspects of feminism, where men will pick out parts that benefit them and THEN support those parts for their own benefit.

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[pretty-chloe]

Only want someone serious to suck my thing 🍆💦😩

[the-girly-boi]

[being-kindrad]

Newly leaked files from within the leading global transgender healthcare body have revealed that the clinicians who shape how “gender medicine” is regulated and practiced around the world consistently violate medical ethics and informed consent. The files, which were leaked from within the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), were published today by the US-based think tank Environmental Progress.

[andersunmenschlich]

Hey retard!

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/france-s-reverence-for-intellectuals-shielded-michel-foucault-from-scandal/

Tranny ideology was codified by actual child rapist frenchmen 🤮

A woman is an adult human female and you will never change your sex or gender because one of those is fake but based on bio sex which is xy or xx chromosomes in your dna. Which is immutable. Fuckin clown 🤡

I so rarely get asks. This one is a bit of a let-down, isn't it? Non sequiturs aren't typically what I look for in correspondence. Oh well.

The salutation is inaccurate, alas.

The article is interesting, if you're interested in Foucault (who, despite the claim in the following sentence, is only one Frenchman). Personally, I never met Foucault and am not overly fascinated by his life—but to each their own.

I have also never heard of "trans ideology." What is it? What system of ideas and ideals is this, on which all of "not being comfortable with the gender one was assigned" rests?

Strange idea. It sounds rather like claiming that being autistic requires an ideology.

Well, my parents might agree.

I only flinch away from bright lights and loud noises because of "autistic ideology." If I didn't know it was possible and even acceptable to have extra sensitive senses, I would probably... well, suffer without allowing myself to so much as flinch, never mind cry out. Hmm.

One wonders how Elagabalus, Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, Eleanor Rykener and all the rest managed, given that Foucault hadn't been born yet.

Then we have the claim that "woman" only ever always means "adult human female."

Speaking a living language can be so frustrating, can't it? I know I hate it when words change their meanings on me. As a child, I inadvertently insulted a shy and very quiet boy by asking if he was dumb; as an adult I remain incensed by the fact that "literally" now also means "figuratively;" and so on.

It took me a long while to accept that sex and gender are no longer interchangeable. "Woman" does not always imply "female" anymore.

Consider this 2021 article from Yale School of Medicine, for example:

Next, consider the claim that gender is fake. In a sense, yes! It's every bit as fake as money: nothing but a social construct. And yet....

Follow that up with the assertion that sex can't be changed: well, it depends on which part of a person's body you consider most important in determining sex, doesn't it? Genitalia can certainly be changed, and that's all doctors look at when you're born and assigned a sex.

This person insists that chromosomes are what matter.

Now, most people don't even know what chromosomes they have! Some of us have both XX and XY, depending on which part of the body you look at. That's a possibility (believe me, I know). How do you, dear reader, know that you aren't one of these people? You might be.

So many people just assume that all their chromosomes "match" their external genitalia. Have you made that assumption? You could be wrong.

And, finally....

The sign off is accurate.