Current Events > If Gender is a social construct, then why change your sex?

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Why go through with gender reassignment surgery and try to change your sex if gender is a social construct?

This topic sucks and is now about waffles.

DrizztLink posted...

This topic sucks and is now about waffles.

I kinda want a waffle maker now.

Because they feel more comfortable with the social construct that wasn't assigned to them based on their reproductive organs at birth.

Because you touch yourself at night.

PMarth2002 posted...

Because they feel more comfortable with the social construct that wasn't assigned to them at birth.

But isn't that an overly drastic answer to a problem that doesn't need it?

This is a shitty troll topic.

Nobody should feed TC's shit-eating grin.

What even is a social construct?

I'd say it's a norm people are expected to live up to, and they can also progress across time

TC probably just had a point to make

i'll be nice and give you a real answer. please don't make me regret it.

Your conclusion is flawed because your premise is flawed. "Gender" in this case, is being used for two entirely separate ideas. also, there is no such thing as gender reassignment surgery. sex or (even more appropriately) genital, please.

"Gender Roles" are a social construct. this is the external pressure society puts on people to behave in certain ways due to their assumed sex. these roles are societal, and can be changed, though usually with great difficulty and glacial speed. but you are right, these are reasons people might want to transition socially, not physically.

"Gender Identity" on the other hand, is biological. it is how the brain developed, as opposed to how the body developed. mostly well before birth. For most people, both brain and body develop in the same direction. for trans people, not so lucky. this opposing development can cause some very serious issues, for which the treatment is physical transition: usually HRT, and often surgical intervention.

ultimately, the confusion is often due to these two terms (as well as gender expression, sometimes) being reduced to the term "gender", even when something more specific is necessary.

Guess I was getting Gender Roles and Gender Identity mixed up then. Good to know! Thanks for your explanation.

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