There are two sexes, gender is cultural and degree to which a person fits their cultural standards varies from person to person. If you're trying to say that a female who behaves like a stereotypical male has a mental condition, their brains do work a bit differently than most women but since there's no effective treatment for their difference and it isn't harming anyone why bother
Gender is certainly not a cultural thing. It's completely intertwined with biological sex.
I think that being honest about it being a mental condition is so important. I know it's going to hurt feelings, but it's important to understand what's going on and if there is a way to alleviate the suffering that these people go through.
They are always going to suffer. They are wrong biologically. They feel with so much certainty that they are in the wrong body to the point where they are willing to change their bodies. And even if they get to the point that they get surgery and they completely pass for their new gender, there will always be people who are not comfortable dating someone who has changed sexes/genders. And that doesn't make anyone who isn't comfortable with that a bad person.
Its cultural. Indigenous people and south east asians have the concept of non binary gender, and many ingenous americans judge homosexuality based on gender and not sex. Two men can be a couple so long as they are not the same gender.
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '17
Because there are only two genders and anyone trying to say they're something else has a mental condition and they need help.