According to feminism and Liberals, gender is purely a social construct. They believe men and women are identical except for their gentitalia ....
So explain: How can a person like Bruce Jenner feel like he was born as a woman with a female brain? . You can't be born with a social construct can you?
Re: Question about gender being a "social construct".
"i kick strawmen on the internet" -LP
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"Born as a woman" is just a common phrase to denote that she felt like a woman in a man's body. You're divorcing its usage from common sense about what it means to try for a "gotcha" moment.
I'm actually reading an article by a feminist group denouncing transgendered people for "spreading the falsehood that gender is biological in nature.". Its a pretty big rift in the LGBT community.
I have a friend who's transgender, and have some ties to the LGBT community in my town. I can't pretend to speak for any of them. For reference, though, I've never once heard the term "social construct" to describe anything about them or how they identify themselves. I don't think they deny biology's role in gender, as LP's reductionist repetition seems to suggest. Rather, it's just about being true to themselves and how they feel in regards to gender and sexuality.
Probably because you don't have the personal experience to be able to rationalize this without resorting to your one explanation here, which is clearly inadequate, as it fails to describe large swaths of people. It's overwhelmingly likely that your feminist article doesn't speak for more than a niche group. Despite some societal cohesion, it's not like they ALL get together and decide what's what. As with anything in life, there are disagreements. And some arguments have more merit than others. But you're definitely taking the part for the whole here.
Long Pig, feminism isn't a monolith. While an element of social justice underlies any given part of the movement, feminists are individuals first and foremost. Feminist opinions can vary wildly, and there are plenty of disagreements within the movement itself. There are, in fact, trans-critical feminists.
As for your question, it's really easy. He may have identified with our socially constructed understanding of femininity, and wanted his body to reflect that.
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