Moon on Nostr: Exactly. We should not care about gender identity or gender expression in terms of ...
Exactly. We should not care about gender identity or gender expression in terms of how that person chooses to present themselves and live their life.
A legitimate tension does arise however when gender expression is conflated with biological sex and used to demand a unquestionable right of entrance into spaces (bathrooms, sports) that are rightfully partitioned on the basis of biological sex. The first is matter of suspension of truth, biological fact and the second is an issue of safety and fairness.
Surely there are still other issues at play like how most (basically all) anti-trans animosity is directed toward MtoF transitions, yet this animosity seems to largely evaporate when the transitioned person is highly passing on heteronormative female beauty standards. A similar dynamic can be surmised from trans porn being the no 1 or 2 search category in many of the deep red states…
A legitimate tension does arise however when gender expression is conflated with biological sex and used to demand a unquestionable right of entrance into spaces (bathrooms, sports) that are rightfully partitioned on the basis of biological sex. The first is matter of suspension of truth, biological fact and the second is an issue of safety and fairness.
Surely there are still other issues at play like how most (basically all) anti-trans animosity is directed toward MtoF transitions, yet this animosity seems to largely evaporate when the transitioned person is highly passing on heteronormative female beauty standards. A similar dynamic can be surmised from trans porn being the no 1 or 2 search category in many of the deep red states…