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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Biology exists, no one is arguing that.[/b]

What people seem to oddly conflate is the idea that "gender is a social construct" means that "gender isn't real"... its VERY real. Social constructs are real, they have a basis in culture vs. science but that doesn't mean they aren't real.  The language that "gender doesn't exist" somehow got tagged to people who advocate for trans rights, when that is obviously not true. Its not purely binary and never has been but it certainly exists- even though the roles and meanings of those gender terms are entirely built by the culture they are in. [/quote]

Then why use “sex assigned at birth” instead of “biological sex”? Biologically we are male or female (anomalies excluded), do you agree?[/quote]

I don't think people are saying "sex assigned at birth" that much, are they? Isn't [i]gender[/i], not [i]sex [/i]the issue?  Either way, I think this poster's (quoted below) words best describe why the "assigned at birth" terminology is important.  It validates the idea that to the person, they didn't change their gender by choice, it was always the "right" gender to them and the only reason they were previously the other gender was because it was "assigned" to them, not their active choice.

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There are probably people who know more about this than me, but I think some of this is probably rooted in verbiage around gay people as well. Homophobes were up our ass about being gay as being a choice we could simply un-make, and that caused us a lot of grief over a couple of decades. Hence, the "born this way" argument (see Lady Gaga, et al.). I think this translated to the trans community a bit in that ensuring the language that is used follows the experiences that people have.

Again: being assigned a gender at birth is fine, but some people realize that gender doesn't fit. They don't think they've "changed" but that the gender that was assigned due to genitals doesn't match their lived experience. So this is the verbiage that the trans community uses that best fits. [/quote][/quote]

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