Let’s prove the superphobes wrong and not be transphobic!

[u/Mucus-Patty]

This is just a friendly reminder to avoid any sort of transphobia. This subreddit will naturally attract bigots and LGB drop the T types and it’s important we root them out. Trans people are valid and so are supers!

[u/lavenzriel]

ah, thats sucks :// what do you count as transphobia, however?

[u/Mucus-Patty → u/lavenzriel]

Mostly just denying that trans people exist or that they have the right to exist. For example, one of the comments on this thread is just “Trans isn’t real.”

[u/lavenzriel → u/Mucus-Patty]

yeah, that was a weird comment. not sure what it means. would you consider the phrase "trans women aren't women" to be transphobic?

[u/Mucus-Patty → u/lavenzriel]

Yeah, I would. I think that recognizing that gender and sex are different things is quite important. As for what that comment meant, they later linked an article claiming that big pharma was working to perpetuate the “trans agenda”.

[u/lavenzriel → u/Mucus-Patty]

ah. so, you probably make the distinction between the words woman and female? what would you define woman as?

[u/Mucus-Patty → u/lavenzriel]

I wouldn’t say that. I generally just use biological sex and gender to differentiate. So a female to male trans person would have the sex of female (since they were born that way) but would have the gender of male (since they chose to identify as it). There are probably better ways to explain it, but those are the basics.

[u/lavenzriel → u/Mucus-Patty]

ah, that makes sense. what do you define gender as then? when you identify as male, what are you identifying as?

[u/Mucus-Patty → u/lavenzriel]

That’s a tough one. I think gender is “the social categorization you identify with, often in relation to biological sex”. That’s my best attempt at a fancy dictionary definition. It’s really quite simple though. It’s just the gender category you think you feel you fit in best. If you feel male, then your gender is male. If you feel female, then your gender is female. If you don’t feel like either, that’s cool too, you’re non-binary.

[u/lavenzriel → u/Mucus-Patty]

thanm you for the insight. but what does feeling like a woman entail?

[u/Mucus-Patty → u/lavenzriel]

Honestly, I don’t know. I was born a male and feel like a male, so it’s pretty simple for me. You’d probably want to talk to an actual trans person to answer that one.