so i was trolling and arguing with some bigots online (hey i had some time to kill lmao) and i said something about gender and sex being two seperate things so one of them brought up john money who i had never heard of before. so i looked up john money and looked into what leftists and transgender people had to say about him. obviously the guy was a pos but the general consensus was that he was trying to prove gender was learned with the reimer case but was proven wrong and that gender is innate. which makes sense, reimer never knew he was born a man and had dysphoria from that so transgender people aren’t “socialized” wrong, that’s how they’re born. but what i’m confused about is isn’t gender a social construct and aren’t the social roles, etc, all learned so how would it be innate? like boys aren’t born liking the color blue, and so on and so forth. so is someone just born with a predisposition to be more likely to identify as a certain gender? is it a combination of nature and nurture? something else?
idk i feel like i get it but i’m simultaneously brain farting
Probably a bit of both imo. i think trans people are on some level probably innately like this, but we all have to live with gender as it's been constructed. i could debate whether i'd still be trans without current gender norms but that's a question entirely removed from reality. There's also a difference between aligning with certain gender performances and preferring to have a certain type of body. The latter probably has something to do with proprioception if i had to wager, but anyone actually looking for it right now is a bastard.