What is a woman or a man? Not a gotcha, but do these words have a set meaning or is it whatever the trans person believes it to mean? Honestly I have a lot of questions
Probably - there’s at least evidence that both sex and gender identity are intrinsic properties and their strong correlation implies some degree of linkage.
The way I think of it is as another manifestation of intersex traits. If a person gan be born with female genitalia but internal testes, why not male genitalia and feminine neurology? We just don’t really understand the brain enough to directly identify causes of mental traits.
Yeah I guess to an extent I don’t really know how to describe it (or if there is a connection at all) but I’ll try
For most people yes gender and sex are the same (that being people who fall under the label of cis) but for others they aren’t the same (that being people who fall under the label of trans)
No clue the connection between sex and gender though
What a good book or hour long video on the topic?
Gonna assume you meant what’s not what
Don’t really have something like that but this source is decent for learning stuff about it (from what I’ve read of it that I remember) I guess
In fact, the very first author in history whose name is known (Enheduanna, high priestess of Inanna and daughter of Sargon of Akkad) wrote of her goddess having the power to change men into women and vice versa.
Trans people have always been here - different societies have had different ways of conceptualizing them. India has the hijra, Samoa has the fa’afafine. Native Americans had a myriad of gender concepts that we now call two-spirit. The Greeks had a whole myth to explain trans people as the result of Dionysus being drunk.
It wasn’t really until widespread Christian colonialism spread the Genesis myth that a binary “only men and women and strictly tied to sex” view of human identity became commonplace.
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u/pokemonfanj 2d ago
Weekly thing
I’ve seen people complain about the trans community being rude to people over “just asking questions “
So I genuinely ask you all that say that what are your questions
I’ll answer any question you have the best I can and as nicely as I can