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I hate that "identifies as" thing. (hexbear.net)
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People do not "identify as" a gender. They ARE that gender.

The one person was going on about how I "identify as a woman".

I don't "identify" as a woman, I am a woman! (I think. Honestly I'm still figuring that one out!)

The whole "identifies as" thing comes off to me as "Oh sure, we'll TOTALLY acknowledge you're true nature!" in this backhanded compliment type of way.

Nobody goes "I identify as straight." or "I identify as 143cm tall."

And nobody goes "I identify as female." except for the occasional misguided queer.

It's almost exclusively someone else who does the "%s identifies as %s" thing.

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[–] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Gender is real as a social construct but fake as an actual thing. Nobody is any gender. Except for trans people, they paid the iron price so they get to have gender. If you want to have gender you have to earn it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Yeah. Sex is the only actual thing, as it's completely material, not psychosocial. Not that psychosocial things aren't real, but as Butler said, no one's a woman/man, one performs as one or another. But what one is, is a male or female, in the sexual sense (you're of the male or of the female sex). Sex is binary or, more precisely, bimodal. Gender is just an arbitraty tag on top on that.

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