Unlimited sex changes on the cissexual world!!

Angel, 1 month ago

Thank you for this post times a billion!

Funnily enough, around four nights ago, I was ranting about this to my friend who is a trans woman, and we both agree that this “Man/woman’ are for describing gender, but ‘male/female’ are for describing sex, so trans women are women, but they’re not female!” is performative shit that harshly showcases the energy of liberals trying to advocate for trans people but failing miserably in the process.

“Biologically male” and “biologically female” are also just transphobic euphemisms. There is no ‘set’ definition, even among biologists and geneticists, of what constitutes a “biological male/female.” Multiple factors are considered to be aspects of sex, and that includes things that trans people can, and often do in fact, change, such as hormones, genitals, and secondary sex characteristics.

It’s the strangest semantic hill for these people to die on, and I saw a trans man doing it that same four nights ago in an Instagram comment section, arguing so hard that he’s “biologically female but still a man,” even when people tried to validate the position that I’m validating now as a response to him insisting that he is a “biological female.” That’s what prompted me to talk to my trans friend about this.

There is no reason why we have to adhere to the weird gender/sex distinction other than giving a half-assed attempt at appeasing transphobes (half-assed because “Gender and sex are different!” isn’t even a satisfactory argument for them).

“Cis” and “trans,” at least for the time being, are good enough distinctions. We don’t need convoluted shit like “Trans women are not female, but they’re women!” or “Trans women are socially women but not biologically female!” If people can’t be satisfied by “Trans women are women who happen to be trans, and they are also female.” and “Cis women are women who happen to be cis, and they are also female.” as the prime distinction, then that’s their damn problem and not mine or any trans person’s for that matter.

queermunist, 1 month ago

Will pregnancy be abolished in the future with advancing technology or will it just become something anyone is able to do?

These are the real questions folks!

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

Babies will be produced both in vivo in either endogenous or transplanted wombs, and ex vivo.

queermunist, 1 month ago

I’m now imagining a culture war between modernist ex vivo child birth and transplanted tradwombs.

WalrusDragonOnABike, 1 month ago

There’s been work into functional womb transplants, but the focus has been cis women. But its not really that farfetched that it could be accomplished in the near future for trans women, but I don’t know if there’s anyone skilled/knowledgeable enough to try it and able to get ethical boards to approve it.

Personally, I do hope it is largely abolished. No clue how progress towards that is. Been a while since I’ve seen anyone who spends a lot of time advocating for it.

BeamBrain, 1 month ago

Twilight Sparkle would never say such a thing

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/394dfb4e-1ab3-48a7-8068-5b8c32cef647.jpeg

I am canceling Twilight Sparkle

Angel, 1 month ago

I remember this cringe from my early days of figuring out my queerness.

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

I used the genderbread man in my high school GSA ooooooooooooooh We need to provide better political education for the youth