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Re:The disappearance of Japan’s “third gender” by jl6 on Saturday January 29, 2022 @03:32AM (#30124769)
> Most people don’t go around thinking “I do X so that means I must be B gender.”

It’s not completely wild if you recognize that genders are socially-constructed categories consisting of a set of behaviors (stereotypes). If you behave in those ways you could reasonably declare yourself to be that gender. This also requires you to recognise that sex is a completely different thing to gender - that is not socially constructed and you can’t declare yourself to be one of the sexes based on behavior or feelings.

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Re:The disappearance of Japan’s “third gender” by kaoD on Saturday January 29, 2022 @04:24AM (#30125001)
Isn't that his point? That it's applying a western social construct to explain a non-western social phenomenon.

Remember: considering that gender is a social construct is also a social construct. It's social constructs all the way down.

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