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
I think people really need to get past the idea that something being socially/environmentally constructed means it isn't real, valid nor fundamental, or that we understand the mechanism of influence and/or it can be easily changed.
When you hear that something is environmentally constructed you need to hear it not like we're talking about an opinion, but whether you think your ethnicty's cuisine tastes good, or whether you take joy in playing basketball or whatever. Like these aren't things you can really change about yourself, they are part of your identity and what makes you you.