• eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      I’m just gonna quote something else you said in this thread

      You were assigned a sex at birth. If you have female genitals, you’re a female. That’s what gets assigned at birth. Doctors don’t give a shit about gender, and do not assign it when you are born. Gender is a societal construct, and something you adopt as you age/learn.

      I didn’t read this in reply to me and think “oh, here is somebody who is attempting to educate themselves and understand me better.”

      If your goal is to get people to share some of their most intimate and complex personal experiences with you, perhaps there are more effective communication styles?

      Can you see how it might come off as somebody who believes they already know the topic and is trying to educate other people?

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          10 months ago

          People are still throwing “gender reveal” parties for their unborn infants. If you think doctors in the real world aren’t concerned with fitting children into sex-assigned gender norms, you experienced a different medical system from me.

          Is it right that doctors and parents, in general, guess gender based on genitalia? Is it good? I think we agree that it isn’t.

          But it is the case.

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            10 months ago

            Tbf I suspect society has called them gender reveal parties because sex (reveal) parties can be miscommunicative in an entirely different way.

            “It’s got a dooong” also has a different vibe from “it’s a boooy”.

            Idk, no horse in this race. Those parties are stupid anyways.