You've said before you don't like identity politics and extended that to ethnicity in the topic that was at hand at the time (possibly The Last Airbender?) I extrapolated. Perhaps incorrectly.
I can't speak for trans people or whether they forget there are people who don't care, but there are plenty of trans voices out there.
The issue we're arguing past is one of respect. It's disrespectful to say to someone "the identity you claim is bullshit, because gender qua gender is bullshit." It's also disrespectful to say to someone "no, you have to choose a gender." Academic gender theory does a lot of the former, as does radical feminist gender theory.
If gender is a figment of society's imagination, then why do trans people exist? Why can't they just overcome this figment of their imagination and be happy in the bodies they have? Do you see how this can piss trans people off?
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Date: 2010-06-23 05:33 pm (UTC)From:I can't speak for trans people or whether they forget there are people who don't care, but there are plenty of trans voices out there.
The issue we're arguing past is one of respect. It's disrespectful to say to someone "the identity you claim is bullshit, because gender qua gender is bullshit." It's also disrespectful to say to someone "no, you have to choose a gender." Academic gender theory does a lot of the former, as does radical feminist gender theory.
If gender is a figment of society's imagination, then why do trans people exist? Why can't they just overcome this figment of their imagination and be happy in the bodies they have? Do you see how this can piss trans people off?