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[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

If gender is just a social contruct, why do trans people want to change their gender?

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago

Why wouldn't they? if being withing a specific social construct makes you uncomfortable best thing to do is to change the social construct.

[-] fracture@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

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.

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