06-02-2026, 07:53 AM
Its annoying, all these "genetic" and "biological" kinda words are transphobic dogwhistles, they keep getting repeated as a soft means to othering us non cis sex ones and its never a positive othering either.The whole binary of sex is based on two things, oversimplifying biology which is inherintly complex. Most people don't even know the basics. (I say I know the basics, I'm not an expert on anything else except what my body does and even with that there's thing I don't yet know.) And second is patriarchal classing of women into usefull and useless categories.
Also, its silly because we all carry the genetics to express both male and female sex chracteristics, development of which can be reversed and changed way more than these "genetics and biology" experts want to admit.
I think its stupid that the forum name has the "genetic" in it to this day... I could be changed to AMAB and that would solve the entire thing. I understand the forum split however, the reason was not trans women, nor intersex women, nor any non cis sex people, it was men.
Good point, the armchair geneticist-biologist-know-it-all always goes on and on about chromosomes for example, which have zero to do with our daily lives. Setup which most people can guesstimate but cannot know without testing. Remember the awkwardness that was testing chromos for sports categorisation which then was later dropped? The reason it was dropped was that there were too many deviations found whichsuddenly made too many men to know they're actually intersex. This is where it makes so much sense that a "man" and a "woman" are social categories, not biological ones. Someone like me isn't funny either, an intersex body is in some in a true in between state... So if people are categorised by biology alone, I fit in nowhere. And gazillion others don't either.
And that last point, exactly. Zero care its its about somebody else. It pisses me off so much. Ladder pulling of highest order. Especially infuraiting when its coming from LGB person who should be part of the same community and face some of the same battles. There's been a ton of these Quislings showing up in last +1 year.
Also, its silly because we all carry the genetics to express both male and female sex chracteristics, development of which can be reversed and changed way more than these "genetics and biology" experts want to admit.
I think its stupid that the forum name has the "genetic" in it to this day... I could be changed to AMAB and that would solve the entire thing. I understand the forum split however, the reason was not trans women, nor intersex women, nor any non cis sex people, it was men.Good point, the armchair geneticist-biologist-know-it-all always goes on and on about chromosomes for example, which have zero to do with our daily lives. Setup which most people can guesstimate but cannot know without testing. Remember the awkwardness that was testing chromos for sports categorisation which then was later dropped? The reason it was dropped was that there were too many deviations found whichsuddenly made too many men to know they're actually intersex. This is where it makes so much sense that a "man" and a "woman" are social categories, not biological ones. Someone like me isn't funny either, an intersex body is in some in a true in between state... So if people are categorised by biology alone, I fit in nowhere. And gazillion others don't either.
And that last point, exactly. Zero care its its about somebody else. It pisses me off so much. Ladder pulling of highest order. Especially infuraiting when its coming from LGB person who should be part of the same community and face some of the same battles. There's been a ton of these Quislings showing up in last +1 year.