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Billnye has turned to the darkside
Tactical Nuke:
--- Quote from: Electrk. on April 29, 2017, 11:03:42 PM ---who determines that then? you?
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--- Quote from: Daswiruch on April 29, 2017, 11:04:48 PM ---why?
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did you not read the second part of that post
they wouldn't be their own gender because they're women
Nonnel:
love doesn't determine gender
IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on April 29, 2017, 10:59:32 PM ---if everyone started calling transgender women hijra tomorrow it still wouldn't change the fact that it's not it's own gender
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If that's what "Gender" is commonly used to define, then yes...? That's how language works.
Khaz:
India's "hjira" is real, documented evidence that the whole concept of "gender" is nothing more than just that: a social concept that varies with different cultures.
You, being in the society of America, would see a hjira individual as either male or female, while the CULTURE/SOCIETY of India would see them as a separate, third gender. I'm not entirely sure what's so difficult to understand.
Arguing against "gender is a social construct" at this point is just being contrarian for the sake of contrarianism. There is literal proof that it is.
Electrk.:
society determines what words mean
that's how language works