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fandomsecrets2018-07-21 03:44 pm
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(Anonymous) 2018-07-21 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2018-07-22 02:08 am (UTC)(link)I can see the logic in what the AYRT is saying? Cis is a chemistry term that means that two things align on the same side, while trans means that the two are on opposite sides and thus don't align. So if you are saying that someone is cis or trans, that means that there is an "expected" way for gender to line up, and if it does you are cis, and if it doesn't you are trans. Whereas I think this person would advocate for a more fluid gender description rather than a binary? I can't say for sure, as I'm just going off of their posts here, but it's what makes sense to me.
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(Anonymous) 2018-07-22 02:22 am (UTC)(link)Surely it's referring to biological/assigned-at-birth sex? Cis people have a gender expression that matches it, and trans people don't.
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(Anonymous) 2018-07-22 04:35 am (UTC)(link)"not wearing pink princess dresses" isn't really what people have in mind when they talk about gender expression or gender identity, and that's all I'm going to say about that
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(Anonymous) 2018-07-22 03:05 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2018-07-22 04:24 am (UTC)(link)Now, obviously, like. The relationship between those things is complex and poorly understood, and in some philosophical sense, any kind of identity or self-understanding is ultimately a product of the brain. But there's a degree of complexity in that relationship. To reduce the claim to saying that a brain is biologically female or male is not a fair way to understand it.
"Gender identity" is one facet of a broader sense of being and self-understanding that is constructed from the biological material in ways that we don't even come close to understanding yet. We can't trace the biological basis for any particular aspect of that identity - so, yes, we can't really say that a brain is male or female - but we can listen to what people tell us about their own identities.
Anyway, that's how I see it.