There has always been hundreds of genders, and it’s always been a political lynch pin: teenvogue.com/…/lgbtq-institute-in-germany-was-bu…
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spiderwort@lemm.ee 7 months agoBut it didn’t become a big thing till the last decade, IE when we all got on social media
zbyte64@awful.systems 7 months ago
S_204@lemm.ee 7 months ago
There’s been like 9 variations of gender in the Hebrew biblical books for thousands of years…
This isn’t new, but the bigotry towards it is. Kinda like how being Homo was fine in Roman times but not in Confederate times. Hate is a social construct.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Do you mean gender identity? That’s not the same thing as identity politics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
spiderwort@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Nope, I mean identity politics. IE concern for the details and ramifications of identity, so great that it rises into the political realm.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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spiderwort@lemm.ee 7 months ago
hey look the monkeys are upvoting you
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
What’s “raising it to the political realm” is governments teying to deplatform, supress and genocide trans people