Timeline for Do transgender people have a heightened awareness of gender identity compared to cisgender people?
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| Aug 15, 2023 at 18:49 | comment | added | ibonyun | @BryanKrause In any case, the question does not hinge upon the motivations of anti-trans bigots. I suppose I'm trying to give some of them the benefit of the doubt by exploring why they might legitimately feel like gender identity isn't a real thing. And it's because I can kinda relate, like I said in the question. I know I'm a man, whatever that means, but I can't really explain why. When I try to reflect on my gender identity and why it is what I presume it is, it seems to just come down to a combination of my biology and my sexual orientation. I can't seem to tease it apart from those. | |
| Aug 15, 2023 at 18:29 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | I would liken it to other memes like "I don't see race" as an excuse or argument against affirmative action; basically, an argument from ignorance that it's okay to have racial disparities, and the implication that any such disparity is because of actual population differences rather than societal factors. | |
| Aug 15, 2023 at 18:26 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @ibonyun A belief that gender identity must align with sex assigned at birth does not mean that someone is unaware of gender identity. They may be less familiar with how other people see their own gender identity, or less familiar with it as a subject of scholarly study or use in a mental health context including all the associated terminology. | |
| Aug 15, 2023 at 18:21 | comment | added | ibonyun | @BryanKrause So when it comes to knowing better what someone else's gender identity should be, they're only looking at biological sex and think that anyone claiming to identify differently from their sex is either (a) delusional, ie mentally ill; (b) lying, eg trying to get into women's bathrooms to prey on women; or (c) jumping on the trans bandwagon to be cool. | |
| Aug 15, 2023 at 18:13 | comment | added | ibonyun | @BryanKrause I'm not saying it makes sense, but it's something I've heard repeated often in one form or another. I think the denial of the existence of gender identity comes from their equating it with biological sex; it is not a separate entity. They tend to think that men/males have penises and women/females have vaginas and that's all there is to say. And, at least in English, the distinction between sex and gender is relatively new, and the related concept of gender identity is newer still, so I think there's a perception of this being some new-fangled lefty nonsense. | |
| Aug 12, 2023 at 1:14 | comment | added | Arnon Weinberg♦ | If my leg hurts, then I tend to be more aware of it. I suspect that if my gender identity was dissonant, then I would be more concerned with it as well - ie, mind the cause-and-effect. | |
| Aug 11, 2023 at 12:54 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | I don't think this makes much logical sense: starting from the premise that someone anti-trans denies the existence of gender identity is absurd: whatever they say, to be anti-trans is to be explicitly concerned with and believe to know better about what someone else's gender identity should be. How is that possible without being aware and concerned with gender identity? | |
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