Well, for starters, I’m not contradicting their point, I’m confirming it. The use of “cis” or “trans” in terms of gender and the knowledge of chromosomes are recent social constructions. The confusion seems to be in what is actually meant by “social construction”.
For example, you keep saying “biological differences” without prepending the word “stereotypical” in such a way that leads me to believe that you still think of sex as a pair of essential categories.
Gender is a social construct, yes, but Sex is a set of simplified generalizations about multiple highly complex and frequently interrelated phenomena that cannot be reduced to anatomy or chromosomes alone.
Ignoring the fact that these generalizations about sex are mere stereotypes to which many people do not conform is much more irresponsible than insufficiently explaining the social construction of gender.
Well, for starters, I’m not contradicting their point, I’m confirming it. The use of “cis” or “trans” in terms of gender and the knowledge of chromosomes are recent social constructions. The confusion seems to be in what is actually meant by “social construction”.
For example, you keep saying “biological differences” without prepending the word “stereotypical” in such a way that leads me to believe that you still think of sex as a pair of essential categories.
Gender is a social construct, yes, but Sex is a set of simplified generalizations about multiple highly complex and frequently interrelated phenomena that cannot be reduced to anatomy or chromosomes alone.
Ignoring the fact that these generalizations about sex are mere stereotypes to which many people do not conform is much more irresponsible than insufficiently explaining the social construction of gender.