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But that incongruence wouldn't be (isn't) a gender matter, then?
I wish they didn't have immense impact on the psyche kinda fucked up Idk. Social dysphoria...
This got me thinking. This isn't fully thought out and also isn't entirely on topic, but, here goes.
I didn't realize I wasn't cis until I was like 28 or something. But, I'd wanted a hysterectomy since I learned what they were in high school. For me, the strong, strong desire to not have a uterus has never really felt that gendered. Now that I realize I'm trans and have had top surgery and am on testosterone and have "socially transitioned", whatever that means for the weird agender goblin that is me, it's easier to conceptualize the immense comfort that comes from my lack of uterus as a gender feeling, because that's consistent with the rest of my gender journey. But your comment has me thinking maybe that's not right. Maybe me wanting a hysterectomy so strongly for so long isn't exactly anything to do with gender, even though in our current society it certainly feels like it must have something to do with gender.
Railing against terfy transphobia:
Also, I hate hate hate how terfs think removing a "healthy" uterus is self-harm or comes from a place of self-hatred. I know what self-hatred and the ensuing self-harm feel like and let me tell you, removing my uterus was not that. Getting a hysterectomy is one of the best things I have ever done for myself.Also, hilariously, I recovered so, so quick from my hysterectomy. Two weeks afterwards and I was fully back to normal. I took myself (on the bus) to my 2-week checkup and the nurse was like "wow, you're moving around so great, it's only been 6 weeks, you're doing great!" and I'm like "uh, it's only been two weeks, actually". My body needed that awful (for me, great for other people) organ removed and I've never felt such a relief in my life as waking up after surgery knowing it's gone.
Your comment is a large part of what I'm trying to parse I think, yes. Stuff like that is Not Inherrntly Gendered since people of several different genders have (or want ✨) a uterus, for instance, but a hysterectomy is often part of gender affirming care, which like, how can both be the case... smallbrain moment. As near as I can tell, in a post-gender society processes like these will just be disentangled from gender, which rules.
Also I love a semiofftopic ramble lfg
What terves be sayin
The "removing a healthy uterus is self harm" line is such fucking transparent shit. Oh, better not remove anything unless it's unhealthy because YOU BETTER KEEP YOUR BODY NICE AND CISNORMATIVE. ANYTHING ELSE IS DAMAGING OR SELF HARM. That's all they ever do, is uphold cisnormativity, or sometimes heteronormativity, or misogyny or sexism if your terf is particularly spicy! Eye-rolling fuckers.Two weeks of recovery sounds fucking awesome, hope anything surgical I elect to undergo is as smooth as that...
This is how I feel when thinking and discussing so much about being trans! So much of it seems to be downright contradictory and yet these seeming contradictions I know to be entirely true! I'm actually really grateful I'm trans, because I don't think any other of my life experiences have shown me such stark contradictions where both are true. I feel like it's really opened my, I dunno, mental possibility space let's go with I guess. Wacky!
asshole terf shit
Isn't it just so transparent? Like, god forbid I get to make a permanent choice about my body that cisnormative society doesn't like, my goodness. I must be harming myself, clearly. I do not have enough eyes to roll quite honestly.And yeah, my hysterectomy recovery was straight up miraculous! Top surgery was nowhere near as easy. I just take it to mean I never should have had a uterus and my body was extremely very happy to be rid of it.
It can be tough to parse this stuff out, I'm just thankful there are people smarter than my goofy ass out there Being trans does rock though, huge fan, bewildered that the cis never think about this.
lol losers lol
Terfs are so funny, "feminism is when we dictate to people what choices they can make about their bodies" would be a genius bit if it wasn't real.absolute alltimer
Hell yeah! I very frequently am quite myself!
Humans have sexual dimorphism, personal preferences, and can dissociate. You'd still have "trans" people transitioning their bodies in a post-gender world. Any specifics are hard-to-impossible to theorize about but would be great to explore in science fiction.
I want this scifi...
You'll probably have to write it yourself because most scifi takes place in the political present.