What are cis and trans alternate types of? I don’t think it’s “gender identity” because wouldn’t that just be man, woman or nonbinary regardless of whether they’re cis or trans? Cis/trans just being a qualifier?

If the answer is “I am cis” or “I am trans”, what is the question?

Edit: Someone came up with the term “gender congruity” and (after looking up the definition of “congruity”) I think this describes what I’m talking about perfectly.

  • WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Do you think sex didn’t exist before 1912? It seems like you are confusing sex with the rough approximation of the shape of a chromosome and oversimplifying how those chromosomes relates to phenotype.

    Trans people change their sex, not their gender. Trans men are men before they start taking T and trans women are women before they start taking E. What changes is their sex. Personally, I hope we see transgender replaced with something soon. Transsexual is fine as a subcategory of transgender people (or a category with lots of overlap with transgender people).

    Social constructs don’t all originate in the same way. If you want an example more like sex, you can look at the social construct of race. Race is not skin color, but the social construct is related to things like skin color. Just because race is a social construct doesn’t mean skin color came after race.

    • GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      This is the most exhausting conversation I think I’ve ever been a part of. You might be the most incredibly stupid person I have ever had the displeasure of trying to educate. Literally nothing you’ve said in this entire comment chain has been remotely close to valid, and You’ve leapt to some astoundingly stupid conclusions, like sex not existing before 1912 based on what I assume is the discovery of the y chromosome.

      I’m done fighting the hydra. Every time I correct you pop up with five more of the most asinine things I have ever heard. Please, for the benefit of all mankind, stop trying to weigh in on topics that are above your level of reasoning. You are only making all of us dumber for ha ing heard your ridiculous thoughts.