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Hot take but I don’t think anyone is born a man or woman
you think we’re gatekeeping womanhood, but we’re not. i was born a woman, and biology is part of my identity. you don’t have to agree with me, but you do have to accept that my body and my experience are not yours to redefine.
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Anonymous 7w

Personally I’m of the opinion that we are born babies tbh

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Anonymous 7w

There’s also a social transition from girl to woman and boy to man, I’d argue

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Anonymous 7w

Well, yeah, you can’t have an entire grown-ass adult inside of you, it’d destroy the body.

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Anonymous 7w

Gender is a social construct, so you do need to be able to understand, well, something, in order to have a gender imo. But I think people are using “born” to mean “as long as I have been a sentient being,” or at least that’s how I tend to use it

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Anonymous 7w

if nobody is born a man or woman, then what exactly are trans people transitioning from? the point of trans liberation was never “biology doesn’t exist.” it was that biology doesn’t get to dictate the entirety of someone’s identity, dignity, or social existence.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 7w

People tend to be born babies

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 7w

We’re transitioning away from the genders Assigned to us At Birth. And I think it’s somewhat ironic you claim that this idea is somehow “biology doesn’t exist” when it’s actually “gender isn’t biological.”

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

I’d argue that we shouldn’t call it transitioning, we should call it Metamorphosing, but I only argue that because it’d be awesome

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 7w

well man & woman are gender terms & that’s a social construct not rooted in biology & trans people transition from gender to gender. they transition to the characteristics that they identify with.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

Why am I getting downvoted for this. This is women’s and gender studies 101 type shit

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