i’m not really here representing a viewpoint other than “if someone wants to identify in a way that makes them happy, they should be allowed to, regardless of the basis they claim for it”
i specifically asked in this case because, especially nonbinary people, but also gnc trans people are sometimes invalidated because of the biological argument, so i wanted clarity on the commenter’s position. of course, i don’t know everything, and consider my experience to be fairly gender normative for a trans person, so i’m open to learning something new, as well
A common anti-trans response would be: if gender is a social construct, then perhaps people are influenced by social media into becoming trans. This is the debunked notion of “social contagion”, it assumes gender identity is subject to social influence.
If gender is just a social contruct, why do trans people want to change their gender?
Why wouldn’t they? if being withing a specific social construct makes you uncomfortable best thing to do is to change the social construct.
i’m not really here representing a viewpoint other than “if someone wants to identify in a way that makes them happy, they should be allowed to, regardless of the basis they claim for it”
i specifically asked in this case because, especially nonbinary people, but also gnc trans people are sometimes invalidated because of the biological argument, so i wanted clarity on the commenter’s position. of course, i don’t know everything, and consider my experience to be fairly gender normative for a trans person, so i’m open to learning something new, as well
A common anti-trans response would be: if gender is a social construct, then perhaps people are influenced by social media into becoming trans. This is the debunked notion of “social contagion”, it assumes gender identity is subject to social influence.