o_O.Q said:
its just the glaring inconsistency that gets me every time with these things i mean yes gender is a social construct to an extent but its also mostly derived from our sex and to deny that is lunacy |
It's only inconsistent because you want it to be.
No one denies biological sex. Everyone is born in one of two (except for Intersex people). Biological sex and gender are different things. Gender is a social construct in the sense that what each gender is expected to do and how each gender is expected to behave are mostly socially created and have nothing to do with biology.
People are born with a biological sex, a gender and a sexuality. The latter two cannot be changed, they can only be discovered. In like 99% of the cases, the biological sex matches the gender. When it doesn't, that person is transgender. Being transgender doesn't mean the person identifies with the opposite gender (male-female), it just means they don't identify with a gender that matches their biological sex. They can not identify as any gender, for example.
Being LGBT+ is not a choice. You are born being LGBT+. Only the most crazily extremist think that everything is a social construct, but so few people think that you might as well dismiss it. You only think of it as inconsistent because you think of the LGBT+ community as a single, unified group, and with the ideas of the most extremist individuals in that group.
