apparently there’s a whole mess of history behind it and it has significant psychological implications. time to read five wikipedia articles and then get distracted
ideally gender studies scholars or whatnot already has a better framework and i just need to read a textbook for once in my life
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but like. we got
- chromosomal sex
- assigned gender
- assumed gender
- gender identity
- gender performance
- gender socialized as
and i highkey need better words to crack into those concepts. like, we need to raze the terminological and conceptual hellscape of gender-and-gender-adjacent subjects, and build a new framework for approaching it out of the ashes.
self-encapsulation is a tricky business, y'know?
21, leftist [flavor unknown], polyam, still constructing my identity and my bio
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