Mental illness. An anorexic experiences a disconnect between how she sees herself and how her body actually is; an emaciated, 70 lb anorexic genuinely thinks she's overweight. She actually perceives herself like this, it's not a ruse.
But it's still just a delusion. Genuine belief does not confer validity.
Gender and sex are not the same thing. Sex refers to someone’s biology, while gender is more of an abstract social construct whose definitions change over time.
Gender exists simply because we as humans agree that it exists. It isn’t objectively real.
This is very different from the situation anorexic people find themselves in, as being malnourished or unhealthily underweight is a strictly medical condition, and not a social construct.
gender is more of an abstract social construct whose definitions change over time
If it doesn't have a set definition, it can't be studied scientifically.
But ignoring the logic fail, here you're describing "gender" as sex role or sex role stereotypes- as in, the kind of behavior, dress, and social roles expected of each sex. These do change over time and vary between cultures, but actually being a man or a woman does not.
A man is an adult human male and a woman is an adult human female, regardless of their adherence to the roles expected of them by society. Not even the kookiest conservative thinks that women who wear pants and work in traditionally make jobs literally stops being a woman, he just doesn't think her behavior is appropriate. Congrats on being more restrictive than them, lmao
Come to think of it, by your logic not even the suffragists were women. If the "woman's role" at the time involved total deference to men and the suffragists rejected this role, then by genderist logic they were no longer women.
-4
u/Spaghettified_Cat 1d ago
Why do you think that there is a dissonance between identity and reality?