[spoiler][quote=“Closet Pankin, post:27, topic:8857”][quote=“StopSignal, post:25, topic:8857”]I think people are getting messed between sex and gender. Genders, well, everyone can love whoever they want! The more you love, the better. But we are born with one of two possibilities of sex at the start of our lives. So well, this thread is about genders; not sex, people! (I think? Though through the title it’s obvious that the original thing was to do a sex survey and not a gender survey)[/quote]
Gender is very heavily linked to sex, though. The male and female brains are wired differently, and from what I know, transgendered people ‘happen’ when during development the brain goes in the other directon. However, extremely rarely, people can be Agender too.
A lot of people confuse identification nowadays what with gender dysphoria being at the forefront of the media. It’s a very, very hard thing to understand, but from all I’ve researched I can tell this much:
NOTE: I am speaking from studying the phenomenon of gender dysphoria for a number of years since my best friend came out as MtF transgender to me. I am also speaking from the knowledge of her experiences, as far as she’s disclosed.
It’s perfectly normal to feel no strong connection to your sex - it’s also normal to feel a connection to it. A lot of people without gender dysphoria say they wouldn’t care what sex they are, as another person in the thread brought up if they were suddenly born a female. That’s because gender dysphoria is when you expect something different than what’s there, if you catch my drift. People without it don’t know what it’s like, and thus, don’t realize the psychological effects of not seeing what you should on your own body.
I feel like this is what started the whole neopronoun thing. When I see people using neopronouns, from my experience with my friend, it’s people who have a serious misunderstanding of gender dysphoria saying they have it because they don’t understand what it’s like to have it. The transgender/sexual community has worked for years to dispel the belief that they chose to portray themselves as the other sex, but that it’s changing to fit how they are inside - and I’ve seen people, mostly teenagers going through their identity crisis, claim that it is, in fact, a choice simply because they chose to call themselves xir/xhehe/lksdjcdsklcxeself. It’s reached the point where on social media sites such as Twitter or Tumblr or whatever, these people literally harass and drive out transgender individuals who are legitimately struggling, and call them scum while demonizing anybody else who dares to not inadvertently mock those suffering as well.
I am not the most masculine guy on the planet, far from it. I am not that strong, emotional and in several ways, feminine. But dammit, I am a man because when I look down, I expect to see what’s there. In the first world, people suffering with gender dysphoria are struggling with an extremely large lack of understanding, and the extreme financial burden in the need to express themselves as who they are inside. I just wish people would try to understand rather than reject anything that can make them feel less special in the world.
Eh, that’s just my ranting opinion, I suppose.[/quote][/spoiler]
spoilered because massive. I mostly said that wouldn’t care thing because… Well, like you said, I haven’t the slightest what that would feel like. And on subjects or weird pronouns, I direct you to the futurama movie beast with a billion backs. And I think that most of the pronouns are ridiculous, and only to be used in event of having no idea as to someone’s gender.
