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MrMelodramatic posted...

I more or less feel like gender is a social construct we don't need,

That's more or less my attitude toward the whole thing. The whole concept of gender identity issues fundamentally relies on gender being a meaningful element of one's identity, which is really pretty pointless. I'd be kidding myself if I tried to say that people's gender doesn't shape some of my expectations for and attitudes toward them, but I also recognize that it really shouldn't, and that only happens because I've grown up in a world where that's normal.

At the end of the day, the only practical consequence my junk has is whether or not I can pee standing up, what sort of options I have when it comes to sex, and whether or not I'll ever have the option of getting pregnant (and the subsequent implications of that). None of those things are particularly identity-defining, and anything else that's attached to me being male doesn't need to be. We stop treating gender as anything meaningful, and I imagine gender identity disorders would decline pretty significantly.

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