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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Hypersapien@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

What are cis and trans alternate types of? I don't think it's "gender identity" because wouldn't that just be man, woman or nonbinary regardless of whether they're cis or trans? Cis/trans just being a qualifier?

If the answer is "I am cis" or "I am trans", what is the question?

Edit: Someone came up with the term "gender congruity" and (after looking up the definition of "congruity") I think this describes what I'm talking about perfectly.

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[-] GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're confusing sex and gender. Sex is a function of biology. It is binary. There are two sexes, and which sex you are is wholly determined by presence or absence of a y chromosome.

Gender is a social construct.

This is the entire reason that the term transgender is used now instead of transsexual.

Also, your whole analogy is shit. The concept of money didn't spring into existence because people already had coins. The coins spring forth from the concept of money. By your logic, we only have genitals because society got together and decided that we should all have a sex.

That is the stupidest idea I have ever heard in my life, and Ive read several tweets from Donald Trump.

[-] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

Sex is not binary, or intersex people wouldn't exist.

You can also have XY chromosomes and be assigned female at birth.

And transsexual as a term has not gone out of usage universally. It's got nothing to do with sex and gender both being socially created constructs. It's preferential, and some people still use it.

[-] GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you willfully choosing to ignore everything ive written and just continue being willfully ignorant on this topic, or are you genuinely incapable of acquiring new knowledge?

Of course, it's super easy to prove me wrong. Show me one si gle instance of a non-ectopic male pregnancy and I'll concede all points and incorrectly use the term sex in lieu of gender like you do for the rest of my life.

[-] GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If sex is a social construct as you claim, you have an incredibly easy position to support. All you have to do is show me one verified example of a non-ectopic human male pregnancy. If you can do that, I will concede on all points and incorrectly say sex when I mean gender, just like you do, for the remaider of my life.

That's how confident I am that you don't know anything about this topic.

[-] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What are you even talking about? Whether someone can conceive or not has nothing to do with the socially constructed concept of sex. Or we would simply refer to someone's uterus or testicles when talking about them. Male and female are constructed concepts. We would call someone a person with a uterus, or a person with testicles if we wanted to talk about those things. That is not what sex is.

You have literally no idea what socially constructed even means do you?

[-] GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You have literally no idea what socially constructed even means do you

This is deliciously ironic coming from the person who continuously misuses it.

Sex is a biological characteristic. It is not a social construct. You mean gender when you say sex, you just know so little about the topic that you don't even understand how you're wrong.

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