Drlee wrote:I am not convinced that it is.
People change their gender identities. This is a fact. Or perhaps it would be more correct to say that the original gender identity is imposed on them by society, and the inner identity eventually surfaces and becomes dominant. Either way, the gender identity goes from one state to another (one sex to another, or from repressed to dominant).
Gender roles also change. It used to be that teaching was a man’s profession. Now it is a woman’s role. I believe high heeled shoes have a similar history.
That is not really what people do. Some choose to impersonate the other sex. Those who resort to surgery to change their sexual appearance are something far more difficult to explain away as a mere expression of a social construct.
Referring to gender as a simple social construct is an insult to those who feel victimized by their birth sex.
I see now that I should have been clearer about the distinction between gender identity and gender roles. For that, I apologise.
You are correct when you say that “those who resort to surgery to change their sexual appearance are something far more difficult to explain away as a mere expression of a social construct”. It is, instead, an expression if gender identity.
Gender roles are cultural. Social constructs.
Gender identity, on the other hand, seems far more complex.
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SolarCross wrote:But he is still a man though, you know that right?
If you are discussing my example of someone who was born male and then changed their gender identity and started filling female gender roles, how would they still be a man?
Are you discussing their sex designation? If so, that would be independent of their gender identity and the gender roles they fill.
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@Decky
I can never tell if you are making fun of brocialists, or are one.