also can we talk about the people who pressure you to appear more femininely even though interacting with your body to do so can be very painful in itself? so you just avoid mirrors and everything until you have the ability to do it?
like is this more common than it used to be? like i had some hippie bitch i know say this shit
i really just wanted to be like 'ok so some dude just ran over your face with a truck and youre just gonna learn to accept the extreme nerve damage in your face and never want it reconstructed, right? that truck is testosterone for me'
Tbh I've never heard of any other version of gender is a social construct that doesn't sound invalidating, unless we're talking about the whole women like pink and shoes because of social conditioning thing, which I get
Gender being a social construct simply invalidates an inherent need for it at a higher social level. Like money is a social construct, that invalidates necessitating society use it, but it does not invalidate the CURRENT need for money to pay for food/rent. In the same way society has no inherent need for gender, but that does not change anything about people currently forced to work within societies gendered system. It does not change the need for surgery or transistioning etc. Even in a post gender society, biohacking would need to be accesible. The reason for abolishment, is that genders will never become diverse enough for everyone to fit within them. There will always be someone left out. And, (esp within a capitalist system) those that are left out will be abused.