Have you ever thought about how the word “androgynous” is derived from ancient Greek? Do you ever wonder why that is? Have you ever stopped and taken a moment to critically reflect and realize that maybe people have been existing outside the binary of “male” and “female” since the beginning of time?
Have you thought about how “hermaphrodite,” an archaic and pejorative word for intersex folk, derives from Latin and Ancient Greek? And have you realized that “hermaphrodite” is a reference to Hermaphroditus, the child of Greek goddess, Aphrodite, and Greek god, Hermes? And do you realize that they’re portrayed in Greco-Roman art as a female figure with male genitals?
Have you heard of the word “gynandromorphs,” which refers to creatures which exhibit a mix of “male” and “female” characteristics? Have you even stopped to reflect on biology? Not just human biology, but biology across species and globe? Have you heard of asexual reproduction and thought about how the categories of “male” and “female” don’t really begin to even express the diversity of nature?
Have you thought about grammatical gender? Have you ever realized that only a quarter of the world’s languages use grammatical gender? Have you ever considered the fact that the majority of languages are genderless and embrace gender neutrality?
What about gender variant identities across place and time? Do you realize that many cultures throughout time and history have what western anthropologists call “third genders”?
Have you heard of the phrase “different names for the same thing”? In Germany, it’s recognized on birth certificates as “indeterminate.” In Australia, people have “X” gender designationd. In Japan, it’s X-gender. In India, the hijras. In Nepal, they list “third-gender” or “other” on government ID cards. What about the Pakistani “khawaja sara” or the Thai “kathoeys”? Are you familiar with the term “two-spirit,” used in reference to indigenous cultures across North America? The list goes on and on…
Do you realize that many countries across the world issue ID cards in “third gender” categories?
Point being, it doesn’t sound like you are thinking logically when you go about posting ignorant shit like “I only believe that female, male, ftm trans, mtf trans and intersex people exist.”
Lastly, I think you’re straight-up confusing gender and sex. Sex is biological, whereas gender is a socially constructed cultural phenomenon. By saying you don’t believe in anything beyond “female, male, ftm trans, mtf trans and intersex people,” you are saying “I don’t buy into culture” or “it’s my culture or the highway.”
Nothing productive comes out of propagating your bigoted beliefs.
Maybe you’re the type of person who believes that ONLY white and black people exist? How is sharing that helpful? Saying that ONLY black and white people exist doesn’t make it true. It doesn’t somehow validate your delusions nor does it lessen the fact that you’re straight-up whitewashing millions of diverse narratives experienced by billions across our expansive planet.
No help for the brain dead.
