Re:Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously (2019)
by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:37AM
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> Well, there’s now a conflict of rights between sex-based and gender-based identities.
Nothing in your post supports, or is even suggestive of, any such “conflict of rights”.
Re:Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously (2019)
by iiioii on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:51AM
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I think they're alluding to the conflict over whether the various different types of sex-segregated spaces should be kept as-is, be separated by gender identity instead, or have any such restrictions removed entirely to become gender neutral.
Re:Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously (2019)
by TaylorAlexander on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @01:16PM
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Well I’m non-binary and gender-fluid, so I don’t identify as a woman. But what I meant was “it’s amazing we can take cross sex hormones and safely change our bodies.” So I wasn’t talking about sex or gender, just HRT specifically. My suggestion that “more people do this” was referring to the concept of HRT, whether that’s taking masculinizing or feminizing hormones. I just find the process fascinating and beautiful. And when I say I hope more people do it, I mean people who want to do it.
So I apologize but your questions don’t really fit with what I meant. I don’t personally like the idea of rigid gender roles.
Well, there’s now a conflict of rights between sex-based and gender-based identities.
When you say “It’s truly amazing and wonderful that we can do this,” you’re expressing a kind of euphoria [1] over becoming more feminine, but to many female people being feminine isn’t particularly what they want to be or to them what makes someone a woman - a woman is just an individual who happens to be female.
[1] “the experience of pleasure or excitement and intense feelings of well-being and happiness”.
I’ve no problem with people who wish to live in what’s called ‘a gender non-conforming way’ but I do have issue with the view that (for example) “To be identified as woman one must conform to one of a subset of appropriate genders”.
Here’s a thought experiment - if typical female people started behaving more like your father, brother, uncle etc now act - if as a social change the ‘gender’ associated with females became masculine - would you still identify as a woman?