shallot

Cold weather means fuzzy socks and cute scarves and nice hats tho

Will have to add this to my stash of pink and white ones. For cis reasons.

I see, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you again! And thank you for the reading list as well!

This is all very interesting, but this in particular caught my eye:

By conceding that transsexuality is inherentlyabout medicalist interventionism, you accept that gender is the social construct and sex is the biological reality--but of course, sex is just as much a socially constructed category!

That is something that I had never considered. I’m not sure that I understand how sex is also socially constructed, unless maybe you mean that because we can change our bodies through hormone treatments and surgery? Which makes sense I suppose. I guess it could also be that we’re taking a roughly bimodal spectrum of physical characteristics and jamming them into binary categories. The more I think of it, the more it makes sense to me, although I’m not certain whether it makes sense for the right reasons or whether it just sounds plausible enough (like the misunderstanding that started this chain).

Edit: Also the more I think about it, my second guess sounds more correct to me. The first one feels a bit too medicalist-adjacent to me, although I did not intend that.

Sorry if my questions are annoying, you just seem to know a lot about things that I’m trying to understand better. Thank you for taking the time to write such detailed responses. I really appreciate it :)

I see. Thank you for the clarification, and for pinging me to come back and read it! So, to make sure I’m understanding correctly, in this context “transgender” indicates that a person transgresses gender norms, while “transsexual” means someone who transitions full-time.

Transsexual is the move from woman to man or from man to woman full time, regardless of whether or not medical intervention was/is one of the steps.

Is the term limited to binary transitions in this context?

You’re on lemm.ee. Give it a few days.

“Democrats are worried that the existence of a Democrat that literally anybody actually likes will ruin their brand”

but never any other nation in the world

lol

That sounds right to me, but I’m not a biologist, so someone else might have a better answer.

Maybe a hot take but I don’t think it matters whether you’re cis. If you want to take hormones I think that’s okay.

Yeah that’s fair, I agree. But also, since it’s illegal, I think that not being open about it is okay too as long as you aren’t selling something because of it. And I probably didn’t need to say anything, but I wanted to because I feel like people tend to villainize exogenous hormones unfairly because of baseball or whatever, and I don’t think we should do that here. Which is not to imply that that’s what you were doing, I just thought it was worth mentioning is all.