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It's really to do with gender roles though. Nurse sees a penis on the baby - writes M on the birth certificate - child ends up being told by teachers they're no
by klipt 5y ago
It's really to do with gender roles though. Nurse sees a penis on the baby - writes M on the birth certificate - child ends up being told by teachers they're not allowed to cry because they're a boy.
Non binary people think those gender roles don't make sense for themselves, and in that respect, I think almost everyone is at least a little non binary. Maybe not enough to feel it's worth declaring, but I've never met anyone who really loves everything about their gender role.
- Wiseacre 5y agoSame for age role, socioeconomic role, or racial role. I wonder why we only talk about gender roles.
- ReactiveJelly 5y agoElaborate?
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- Wiseacre 5y agoGender roles certainly exist. Why wouldn't age roles, socioeconomic roles, or racial roles exist as well?
- anotherman554 5y agoWe have other terms and other words we use when talking about some of those things.
- NoSorryCannot 5y agoWho said they didn't?
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- wrycoder 5y ago99.5% penis comes with testosterone and resulting male anatomical characteristics. The exception proves the rule.
- andrepd 5y agoThe comment was about cultural gender roles, not anatomy.
- xdennis 5y agoThey're the same almost 100% of the time.
- yakubin 5y agoEven if you make the distinction, "female" describes sex, not gender. So the acronym "AFAB" is a bit internally contradictory if you remember that it was created in order to underline the distinction. Then again, these days more often I see people denying the existence of sex, and replacing it with gender altogether, so maybe it's not that surprising after all.
- heurisko 5y ago"AFAB" is an appropriation from literature describing DSDs, where sex was to some extent "assigned" in the case of ambiguity. Applying it to the population at large is absurd, but has become popular within some social circles.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Even if you make the distinction, "female" describes sex, not gender Sex is a multidimensional spectrum. "Sex" categories are, in fact, genders--social constructs.
- yakubin 5y agoWikipedia[1]: > Female (symbol: ) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction. [1]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female>
- xdennis 5y ago> Nurse sees a penis on the baby - writes M on the birth certificate Sex is determined at conception and parents today often know what it is before birth. > Non binary people think those gender roles don't make sense for themselves, and in that respect, I think almost everyone is at least a little non binary. You only say that because of rigid thinking about what boys and girls are. When someone says to a boy "stop crying like a girl" he's displaying a rigid definition of what a boy is. Instead of saying that some boys can be very sentimental too, you're saying he's non-base-2. That's no different from the person saying boys shouldn't cry.
- antris 5y ago>Sex is determined at conception That's only a part of it. Embryonic development plays a part too. >and parents today often know what it is before birth. They don't know for sure. Not even the doctors can determine it 100%. The estimation is done by looking for a penis with ultrasound. Sometimes the estimation isn't correct and the opposite gender is assigned after.