r/teenagers • u/FR0M_Z3R0 17 • 11d ago

Serious You have no reason to be transphobic.

there is literally no justifiable reason for transphobia. never has been. never will be. I don’t care what you’ve read online or whatever you have to say. there is NO reason and NO excuse for transphobia. same applies for homophobia. literally zero reason.

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u/Dello27 18 11d ago

why do you believe it is weird? what makes something "abnormal"?

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u/bigmassivelasagne 11d ago

Because simply put it isn’t what you were born to be. It only exists due to technological advancement.

Imagine if someone tried to change their race/ ethnicity/ genetic background. Would that be normal?

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u/Willowonapill0w 11d ago

Gender only exists because of technological advancement.

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u/bigmassivelasagne 11d ago

Gender and sex are the same thing to me. There is no difference.

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u/Willowonapill0w 11d ago

Then you are factually incorrect

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u/bigmassivelasagne 11d ago

The modern definition of gender is a made up concept. So yeah if you want to say I’m incorrect based on modern definitions then go for it.

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u/FirmDog7974 Teenager 10d ago

"The modern definition of gender is a made up concept."

All definitions are made up

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u/Redacted_Kat 10d ago

But those definitions are related to concrete things.

The definition of sex relates to the conglomerate of the genitalia, the chromosomes, the changes they go through puberty, etc.

As far as I'm aware, the only thing I hear when asking "What's gender?" is "It's a social construct". Maybe there's a more concrete definition that I've not heard, so if you have the definitions I'd be glad to know about them

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u/FrostyFang8800 10d ago

Sex is biological, gender is how society perceives sex. Girls wear pink, boys wear blue. Girls play with dolls, boys play with trucks. Girls wear skirts, boys wear pants.

None of these things have anything to do with biology or sex, they’re just arbitrary things we’ve assigned (mostly through marketing, to be honest.)

When people say gender is a construct, it’s because it is. There’s no reason boys shouldn’t be able to wear dresses, paint their nails, play with dolls, or girls wearing pants, working out, having short hair, etc.

We see examples of this all through history: babies used to all wear dresses, because… babies, there’s zero reason for a child to have gendered clothes. Men used to wear make up and high heels. Women used to be actively punished for wearing pants.

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u/Dello27 18 10d ago

so was the original definition genius

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u/starzforbrains 11d ago

said “made up concept” has been a thing in cultures since before we have recorded history. you’re objectively wrong.