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  • What is "gender"?


    I read your ideas in the discussion you linked, and I mostly resonate with your ideas. I'd like to ask you more on your ideas on "bearing".

    You describe "bearing" as an internal sense related to the own biological sexual characteristics. However, for many gender questioning people I met, this is not that much of a concern. These people started their questioning also from an internal sense of themselves, which, however, was related to how much they identified with social definitions of feminine and masculine behaviour. For other people I met, their questioning had also the aspect of as what gender, in the social sense, they would like to be recognised and treated by others. In both cases, the aspect of their biological sexual characteristics seemed secondary: physical transition was taken into consideration not as an end, but as a means of matching their outside with their inside perception.

    I'd be very curious to read your thoughts on this!