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barney · 4217 days ago · link · · parent · post: "If a person can be transgender, why not transspecies or transsracial?"
A word like "gender" carries a lot of baggage with it. It means different things to different people.
AnSionnachRua · 4217 days ago · link ·
Exactly. I only wish to point out that there are problems on both sides. For example, I know a person who identifies as a man but has a female body. He gets offended when people call him a "woman," because as far as he is concerned, he is a man. But in a very real sense, to everybody else she is a woman. There's a disconnect between how the trans community seems to talk about gender (in my own brief experience with it) and how most people actually think about it.