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The last thing I'll deny Eddie Izzard is being multifaceted. You can be a delusional narcissist and be as talented as him. There's (was?) so much more to him than the crude charade he's putting up now.

My one time friend who transitioned during Covid is also very talented and multifaceted.

While I absolutely adore news stories about what I shall call here "Portland style MTFs,"* I've never said all or most MTFs are like that. Doesn't change my mind in the slightest about the political agenda.

*the wilding out types

very obtuse

obviously she wants her physical appearance to match her gender and so has to put more into that than a typical cis woman

this varies person to person just like with anything else related to women and physical appearance

In the 1970s, the then-new term "gender" meant a bundle of norms, stereotypes and expectations faced by women and men respectively and it was seen as something to subvert. Now, "gender" is used to mean an intangible inner essence that, in the social realm, can only be expressed in relation to stereotypes. Thus, stereotypes are not subverted but reified.

That's how you get the sinister recent invention of "a trans child": if a girl doesn't like dolls and dresses that's how it is known she is really a boy.

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according to who specifically?

social sciences began to recognize gender as separate from sex as early as the 1960s

although it's simply an observation and study of the way people have communicated for hundreds of years

hi elph :clap:

Trans kids are not a “recent” thing. I came out as trans and was diagnosed with gender dysphoria 20 years ago, and I know plenty of people who came out as kids before that. And the use of the word “invention” is once again dismissing and delegitimizing trans people. Inventions have to be invented by someone. Whose “invention” are we exactly?

With the way trans people live rent free in jadis' head he's either an egg or a chaser. If there's one new post on this forum, guaranteed it's him terf-posting.

According to the followers of the most influential feminist thinker of the 20th century, who famously wrote in 1949 that "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" (she didn't use the word "gender", it was coined a bit later). Caused a huge furror at the time, though today it's seen as rather tame, I think. Anyway "the big idea" of mid 20th century feminism was to reject stereotypes of "femininity." Whereas the trans movement of today appears to take them arguably more seriously than they've ever been taken before.

It's not "simply an observation" lol it's a momentous philosophical revolution.

I have to know, why "hundreds of years"?

Police drop guidance allowing trans officers to strip search people of the opposite biological sex