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ive come to realize something about the way we think about ourselves. gender isnt a social construct. heres why:
it implies that if there was no society, there wouldnt be any gender but people who are isolated from society can still have a gender
if all it took to be a woman was to simply identify as a woman, a transmasc egg would be considered a woman
it kinda feeds into the gender = gender expression myth
people from ye olden days and from other cultures who have different words for being trans like hijra instead of enby wouldnt be that gender because its a different label
tying back to that first point, if you need society to have a gender, wouldnt that make it a choice?
i propose this: gender is a psychological connection to femmininity/masculinity/androgyny/etc. like zodiacs, youre stuck with it for life, but how it applies to you is different then how it applies to someone else with the same zodiac/gender. how you interpret it can be different. you can call a color teal or cyan or turquoise but that doesnt change what color it is. and even if youre really short, that doesnt stop you from wearing heels, like how being a man doesnt stop you from wearing a dress. to be a woman, you have a psychological connection to femininity. you can present masculine, but inside its still femme. same thing for feminine presenting men and feminine/masculine presenting enbies.
thanks for reading, have a great day :)