they assing one a gender at birth based on ones anatomy.
they assign a sex at birth based on the anatomy.
both are social constructs and i believe among the two gender is the more accepted one by progressives, as it is the one that people actually positively associate with and which we all agree we can pick for ourselves.
yes, a gender assigned at birth is something we were forced into but we can change it.
sex on the other hand is more commonly used as a weapon against us. ofc ones anatomy is seperate from ones gender (altho it can be part of it), but sex is anatomy gendered. but unlike gender, the person whose anatomy it is, does not get to decide their sex. at the end of the day it’s gender forced onto people from outside in a way they can’t change (or only by changing their bodies). it’s violent.
now we could try to work towards degendering sex, but i believe this is incredibly hard since words such as male and female are used interchangably with man and woman, and well for example most male sexed people are also men. so i believe it makes more sense to desex our bodies, and use male and female uniquely for gender (or not at all)
if we desex bodies of course, then we might need other ways to talk about certain common clusterings of attributes, and the solution for that is to just say what’s there. idk if there are better words for this but it can be things like
“estrogen/testosterone dominant system”
“having a uterus”
“having a prostate”
“having breasts”
“weighing less than x”
this has the advantage of automatically accounting much better for human diversity than the strict sex system ever could :3
using agab instead of asab is another defocusing of sex then.
but also when people ask for agab, they might and really should literally just mean “as what gender were u raised (pre transition)”
they assing one a gender at birth based on ones anatomy.
they assign a sex at birth based on the anatomy.
both are social constructs and i believe among the two gender is the more accepted one by progressives, as it is the one that people actually positively associate with and which we all agree we can pick for ourselves. yes, a gender assigned at birth is something we were forced into but we can change it.
sex on the other hand is more commonly used as a weapon against us. ofc ones anatomy is seperate from ones gender (altho it can be part of it), but sex is anatomy gendered. but unlike gender, the person whose anatomy it is, does not get to decide their sex. at the end of the day it’s gender forced onto people from outside in a way they can’t change (or only by changing their bodies). it’s violent.
now we could try to work towards degendering sex, but i believe this is incredibly hard since words such as male and female are used interchangably with man and woman, and well for example most male sexed people are also men. so i believe it makes more sense to desex our bodies, and use male and female uniquely for gender (or not at all)
if we desex bodies of course, then we might need other ways to talk about certain common clusterings of attributes, and the solution for that is to just say what’s there. idk if there are better words for this but it can be things like
this has the advantage of automatically accounting much better for human diversity than the strict sex system ever could :3
using agab instead of asab is another defocusing of sex then.
but also when people ask for agab, they might and really should literally just mean “as what gender were u raised (pre transition)”