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Speaking from a place of ignorance, I've always felt the main reason trans has been hard to accept by so many people who are otherwise rational is because most people dont feel like a gender. I personally remember voicing dissent against people for telling me i could or could not do things because of my gender when very young. This tells me that certain people are born with a certain type of intense self consciousness and insecurity that drives them to categorize themselves in society. if that is the case, then i feel "abandoning a strict gender dichotomy" will be about as effective as Victorian sexual mores were, and having these children do the equivalent of turning the female ankle into a sexual body part.
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Anosmoman posted:eh I don't feel a different height but why would I care if someone else wants to have surgery to become taller? Generally people don't care. I mean you can do largely anything to your body and while people may deride or laugh at you none of it is anywhere near as controversial as changing your gender or just being attracted to someone from your own gender. You can have so much cosmetic surgery or weirdo body mods that you appear like a completely different person but if you crossdress you may just be murdered if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Society at large clearly values gender more than other physical attributes and we probably shouldn't. It always seemed to me the greatest cause in the discrepancy of violence has more to do with sexuality than gender. People already in-out-group eachother over the most petty of things. The added personal aspect of sexual feelings and potential feelings of emasculation of finding a same sex mimic attractive probably cause a potentially more intense feeling of hate. Everything else seems likes rationalizations or cultural inertia.
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