I was wondering how you'd respond to this
"What does feeling like a woman mean? Outside of gender norms and stereotypes?"
Feeling like a woman isn’t about ticking off gender stereotypes like dresses, makeup or whatever. It’s an internal sense of embodiment like an instinctive feeling of how you should exist in your body and how you relate to yourself and others. Even outside of societal norms, most people just know in a deep way what fits for them and what doesn’t. Same way you don’t have to explain why you feel human or why you feel alive...it’s just a fundamental part of your being....like handedness...being right-handed or left-handed. You don’t choose it because of cultural pressure it’s an innate way your brain and body sync together.
Gender identity works in a similar internal embodied way...also stereotypes didn’t create that feeling they just distort it....a person can know they are male or female regardless of societal roles that’s why even people raised without strict gender roles still often have a very clear sense of their gender internally
"What does feeling like a man mean?"
Feeling like a man like feeling like a woman isn’t about stereotypes like liking football or having a beard. It’s about the internal sense that your body, mind, and presence fit a certain way into the world...a deep "this is me" feeling. It's identity at the level of existence, not clothing not behavior. Just like cis men feel a natural unquestioned comfort identifying as male without listing traits...trans men feel the same way even if their bodies at birth didn’t match their internal map. Imagine being handed a script at birth saying "you are female" or "you are male" but from the very beginning something inside you just knew it was wrong. Not because you hated certain stereotypes or hobbies but because your entire self felt mislabeled.
Research has shown that trans people's brain structures often align more closely with their identified gender than with their sex assigned at birth (example: Rametti et al., 2011 on white matter patterns)....ancient societies like the Two-Spirit people among native americans recognized that gender identity could exist beyond stereotypes...it’s been understood for centuries that gender isn't purely societal roles. If gender was only about social expectations, trans people could just conform instead of risking everything to live as themselves. But they don't because it's way deeper than that
Ah, the usual post modern word salad: when you finish reading it you don't even know what was said. It's just a "deep, instinctive, internal, innate, identity at the level of existence." lol what? They love musing about the abstract and they're always one step away from talking about a soul. I'm only interested in material reality.
There's no such thing as "feeling like a woman." Women are not a feeling, women are individuals. We're not an identity, we're not a concept, we're not an emotion, we are people with our own thoughts and personalities. So there's nothing to "identify" with, unless you don't think women are people. A man can't know what being a woman "feels" like because 1) he's not one and 2) womanhood is not a feeling, nor an identity, it's just a biological fact. Simple. To say otherwise is as stupid, ridiculous and offensive as saying "I identify as black" when you're white. It doesn't even deserve an answer. Just point and laugh.
"Feeling like a woman isn’t about ticking off gender stereotypes like dresses, makeup or whatever."
Why are "gender therapists" diagnosing kids as trans for, I quote, "consistently not conforming to gender stereotypes?" Why are transbros candidly saying "I always knew I was a girl, even as a kid I liked nail polish and make up! uwu" I've lost count of the number of times I've heard that one. Or the women saying in interviews that they always knew they were a boy because they liked football and didn't want to become a housewife. Why does Amnesty International define being transgender as not conforming to the traditional expectations associated with one's sex? Why are people claiming a person is "trans" the minute they don't follow sexist stereotypes? Butch women in particular. Why is "gender expression" even a thing? Expressing your "innate gender" through clothes and mannerisms, that's not sexist? You go on reddit and read what "trans women" are writing and vomit at the casual misogyny. Why are so many trans people gay? Why are the large majority of them girls? Why so many underage girls? I mean if it has nothing to do with sexist stereotypes, then there's no reason for girls to be the ones most willing to become members of the opposite sex, right? Don't tell me this is "innate."
"It’s an internal sense of embodiment like an instinctive feeling of how you should exist in your body and how you relate to yourself and others."
There are some people who have an "instinctive feeling of how they should exist in their bodies" that tells them they should be disabled. They buy wheelchairs, white canes and injure themselves on purpose. Is that okay? Should we all pretend they're actually disabled so as not to be bigots? Should we pay for their amputations? Or should they get therapy and learn to accept themselves and reality? I personally feel like I should be able-bodied and play sports, does that change reality? It's such a male way of thinking: "my feelings are facts and my thoughts can change reality." What about anorexics? They also have "an instinctive feeling of how they should exist in their bodies." Actually, we're back to mind/body dualism: "exist in your body" as if you were the inhabitant of a body, when in reality you are your body.
"Even outside of societal norms, most people just know in a deep way what fits for them and what doesn’t."
It's an empty sentence but I think it's funny that someone would claim to know how people think "outside of societal norms" when every human being on earth was born in a human society. They're declaring as "fact" something that they can't possibly know.
"Even people raised without strict gender roles still often have a very clear sense of their gender internally"
Same remark as before. No one was ever raised without strict gender roles in a patriarchal society. They're declaring as "fact" something that they can't possibly know.
Also, if this so called "gender identity" a personal sense of self then it can't be proven nor disputed. We're just supposed to believe, on faith, that this dude is a woman because he says so. That the oppressor is actually oppressed. Even if I were to ignore how offensive that is, I would have to point out that asking people to believe you on faith, especially as you say something grotesque, is raising all the alarm bells for me. That's just not the way I operate.
"You don’t choose it because of cultural pressure it’s an innate way your brain and body sync together."
Again, how do they know that? Since every human being is born in a culture? How can they know that it's innate and not cultural? That's the third time they claim to know something they can't know. The nature vs nurture debate is still ongoing in the scientific field, but this random tumblr user has everything figured out apparently...
"Your entire self felt mislabeled."
Yes, when you're a girl and you're labelled all sorts of nasty things because you were born female, your entire self feels "mislabelled" indeed. It's not being trans, it's being human.
"Imagine being handed a script at birth saying "you are female""
They call it a "script" because to them your biological sex defines your entire life (because of gender stereotypes. Yes, the same gender stereotypes they claim don't matter).
"Research has shown that trans people's brain structures..."
Blablabla no. There's no woman brain vs man brain, that's been debunked as sexist nonsense. The researches done on transbros is flimsy at best. Also the ones studied were gay (not the usual "transbians" we've come to know and hate.) There is, to this day, no proof that "gender identity" is a biological fact. And it makes sense given how nebulous a concept it is. Also, the brain is not the only organ that makes you you. All your organs work in concert with each others and are responsible for the person are. In the scientific field, they even call the intestines "the second brain", because we've discovered that it impacts our feelings.
"Ancient societies like the Two-Spirit people among native americans recognized that gender identity could exist beyond stereotypes…"
This is the seemingly inevitable moment when the trans activist reveals that they're white. They looooove the "noble savage" trope. You see, if even the primitive savages agree with me, then I must be right, right? They're connected to nature and stuff. Before the white coloniser tainted them, they were pure and always right :) But "ancient societies"....? The term two-spirit was invented in the 90s... it's a modern concept to categorise people who don't conform to sexist stereotypes... it was invented, much like "non-binary", by people who, instead of challenging gender roles, decided to claim that if someone was operating outside of those gender roles then they weren't normal or a real female or male.
"It’s been understood for centuries that gender isn't purely societal roles."
To us feminists it's always been understood that gender is a patriarchal tool invented to subjugate women. There's nothing fun or deep or personal about it. Certainly nothing innate nor instinctual. Gender is sexism.
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