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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/AitrusX on 2023-08-30 23:31:26.
So I feel like this question is taboo but it constantly nags at me. I am 100% on board with almost nothing being exclusively for male or female (gender norms or tropes) and 100% on board with bisexuality and homosexuality being great. What I get lost in is the “biological” man “transitioning” to be a woman. What does being a woman mean in this context? Wearing dresses? Liking the colour pink? Making 10% less money? Having a period?
Like isn’t there tension between “I always felt like a woman” and the very social constructs around that being essentially fabricated? Like yea turns out women can think and play sports and work and all the other stuff that was part of the social construct of “woman” in the 1920s or whatever for example. So when you decide to become a woman what is it you are becoming exactly? Because other than bearing children you can pretty much do whatever it is you think it means to be a woman anyways?
I totally support eliminating socially constructed gender norms - i am lost by the idea of just trying to trade one set of constructed norms for another. Like first of all wearing a dress and getting your nails done shouldn’t be gender specific, but second of all if you think that defines what it means to be a woman and as a man want to do it you actually can without “transitioning”?
Maybe I’m missing the bigger point or something but it feels like a lot of wasted energy that could likely be focused on removing biological sex as a relevant parameter in cultural and social norms rather than just trying to switch sides within them?