Comment on It would be so interesting if humans didn't have a gender assigned at birth and could choose who they want to be.

yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For some of us we didn’t know there was a choice

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  • definitely_AI@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Like, for 99.9% of humanity? How common is it to question your gender? For the vast majority of humanity the question doesn’t come up just like the questions “are my legs fake” doesn’t come up. Surely those people are also ok to be fine with whatever? It’s ok to be man or woman and be heterosexual, too, right? Just checking.

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    • Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Consider not posting in the future. Thanks.

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      • definitely_AI@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is a straight up childish answer. It’s basically “boooo! you dumb!”, what is that? Are you incapable of having a civil argument or do you simply refuse to have one?

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For all of us we didn’t know there was a choice, we were all infants at the time. We were still figuring out which amorphous blob gives us the milk.

    This is why others decide on sex for us through observation, that much is sensible enough. But we’re discovering more and more that this is an imperfect system and that more often than we realized the answer is not straight forward.

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• GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s just that the pressure to make the “correct” choice is fucking crazy.

  I feel pressured to only ever present as a cisgendered heterosexual person regardless of whether that’s correct or not. The pressure is for LGBTQ+ people to simply disappear from public society. Correct has nothing to do with it.

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• Horsecook@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  To say that transgenderism is a choice is to argue that it’s not a result of anomalous brain development, and is instead an ordinary delusion, no different than believing you’re Jesus Christ. Which implies than gender-affirming care is harmful.

  I suspect that’s not what you meant.

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  • definitely_AI@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why would someone not be able to choose their gender. Gender is a social construct. Of course people can choose. People can choose to be gay too, if they want. People have free will, don’t they?

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    • Horsecook@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People can choose to be gay too, if they want.

      If homosexuality were a choice, I’d make it.

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      • definitely_AI@feddit.online ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Literally nothing is stopping you.

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