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The people on this thread asking questions are not people who give a fig about the Kardashians.

The truth is most of this gender stuff makes little sense. You are born with a biological sex.  It is based on your chromosomes.  What does it mean to be a man or a woman beyond that?  What does it mean to say you know you are a different gender than what your chromosomes indicate?  Separate from biological sex most ways we define gender are a bunch of made up bullshit that varies from culture to culture. People who pretend this is cut and dried are full of it.  [/quote]

So when you assign a term to what you so articulately define as “made up bullshit” or the social construction of gender, then you have all the terminology people are discussing in this thread.

It’s not “cut and dried” but I bet a middle schooler could explain it to you.[/quote]

Nope. People on this little thread are arguing about terminology. Clearly there is not one handbook every is following. But people like you have no problem insulting people for not knowing what you have deemed obvious.  It makes you feel superior, I suppose.

To be clear, we are not talking about anything but gender here. What does it mean to be a “man”?  What does it mean to be a “woman”? If it is divorced from biological sex, the answer will vary from culture to culture and from person to person. If you really delve into it, you could argue it is fairly meaningless.  Why can’t a woman call herself Elliot?  Non-binary makes perfect sense to me. Trans doesn’t. Why even pick a gender, really.  Truthfully the world would be a better place if we acknowledged sex for health reasons only and didn’t concern ourselves with gender.   [/quote]

I don’t see people arguing about terminology on this thread at all. There are people asking what terminology means and others providing the definitions. Then there are people, like you, arguing that the defined terminology doesn’t make sense TO YOU and therefore you deem them meaningless. Which is, as I stated earlier, willful ignorance. If the shoe fits...[/quote]

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