The rule does not erase the existence of exceptions. And exceptions should not be treated as "abnormality." DSD is not "diseases" of sexual development. It is "differences" of sexual development. We need to stop pathologizing DSD. People with DSD are just different from us. They don't deserve to be dehumanized.
The real objective is to create smoke and mirrors? Whose real objectives? People without DSD who are appropriating DSD? Why should THEY be the focus of discussion about DSD?
How many trans people think cis gender people are morally inferior dupes of socialization? Do you have any mass survey data? Or are you choosing to listen to only the most vocal and extreme elements because their outrageous opinions justify your transphobia?
Do you think this person looks down on cis women as morally inferior dupes of socialization?
Well, I read a lot of queer theory published in academic journals and interact with extreme social constructionists. I know their worldviews. I regularly hear people with advanced degrees argue that nearly all sex-related behaviors are due to socialization and accuse anybody who thinks that biological sex is related to behavior as being an essentialist. I've read Judith Butler's Gender Trouble cover-to-cover twice. I've read Gayle Rubin's Thinking Sex several times, lots of Foucault, Michael Warner, David Halperin, etc. In sociology, I've read West & Zimmerman's Doing Gender. I could go on and on. I could show you the several bookshelves full of scholarshp that inform my opinion on this topic. In short, I don't need to be educated by you.
There is nothing transphobic about saying sex is binary. In fact, the very concept of trans relies on the reality of biological sex, as does being gay or lesbian. You're conflating people who have transitioned or identify as trans with postmodern gender ideology. They are not one and the same. The ideology is offensive because it assumes that people who do not want to occupy a novel "gender" category or pharmaceutically alter their bodies actively endorse the stereotypes associated with their biological sex.
Why are you so obsessed with queer theory? Do you think trans people exist as "case studies" of queer theory? Do you think trans people claim their identity to "prove" queer theory? Do they agree with queer theory? Do they know what queer theory is? Where are the survey data I can access to find answers to those questions?
And I am not "conflating people who have transitioned or identify as trans with postmodern gender ideology" because I could not care less about postmodern gender ideology. That's none of my business. It seems you are the one who cannot think about postmodern gender ideology whenever trans people are mentioned in any way or shape.
Do you really have to insult, humiliate, and dehumanize trans people's identity so that you could score an ideological point against postmodern gender ideology? Those people are real human beings with real feelings and life of their own. Yeah, some of them are insufferable narcissists (Veronica Iv... never mind). But there are also many insufferable narcissists among cis people. Trans people do not deserve to be judged by the worst elements among them.
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