"Conservatives on this issue are more likely to recognize our biological sex. Yet they too have sexualized children with an unhealthy, inaccurate conflation of gender norms and sexual identity. In insisting upon socially constructed gender norms, a more traditional view of gender can easily reinforce the assumptions that if kids don't conform, they must be defective in some way." What do you think of this view about Conservatives? And more so Conservative Christians?
Well I think it’s pretty ridiculous, and here’s the thing I don’t really understand about Tumblr’s view on sexuality:
On one hand they claim that gender is nothing more than a social construct, and that societal gender “norms” are just made up by the powers that be and have no bearing on the physical attributes of men and women.
On the other hand, they will insist that a boy who likes wearing dresses or playing with dolls must be transgender and have the brain of a woman. How in the world can you have both of those things at once? If gender is nothing more than a social construct, then why can’t he just be a biological male who enjoys traditionally feminine things? Why must he actually be a female? If gender is truly no more than a social construct, being “transgender” shouldn’t exist. And for the record I do believe that gender dysphoria is a thing (although probably not nearly as common as Tumblr would have you believe), but my belief that it is a thing is what prevents me from believing that gender is a mere social construct.
