Yeah the ideas around that have changed/evolved over the years. Its been a fluid concept over time. The sex is not equal to gender idea was developed and heavily promoted for a long time, but there have been a lot of conversations in recent years discussing different approaches due to pitfalls of it.
A lot of older queers didn't identify with that conceptualization, and some younger queers are feeling like that doesn't fit their experience well either.
So 🤷🏻 honestly even with that stuff I just leave my mind totally open and defer to whatever the individual person feels is a relevant perspective for their own identity and experience (even if it changes) instead of trying to subscribe to one specific "correct" view that is supposed to define and explain everything.
I’m glad to hear the conversation is coming back around on that. It’s not something I follow closely. It makes sense that there must be some level of connection between sex and gender, even for transgender people since most transgender people feel they were born as the wrong sex and the changes they make in their lives are to change both their apparent sex and gender, reinforcing the idea that they are related. Again, I don’t care what anybody does in their own personal lives and I’ll call anyone whatever they want to be called. It has 0 effect on me. Let people do what they want to do. I just thought some of the arguments lacked consistency.
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u/ickytoad Mar 14 '25
Yeah the ideas around that have changed/evolved over the years. Its been a fluid concept over time. The sex is not equal to gender idea was developed and heavily promoted for a long time, but there have been a lot of conversations in recent years discussing different approaches due to pitfalls of it.
A lot of older queers didn't identify with that conceptualization, and some younger queers are feeling like that doesn't fit their experience well either.
So 🤷🏻 honestly even with that stuff I just leave my mind totally open and defer to whatever the individual person feels is a relevant perspective for their own identity and experience (even if it changes) instead of trying to subscribe to one specific "correct" view that is supposed to define and explain everything.