If Gender Is A Social Construction...

[Christianbookworm]

Body dysphoria does sound bad, but they need help for the condition. Not surgery to make them fit to what they think their body should look like. Anyway, I'm still confused how some one could feel like a girl or feel like a boy. Does not wearing make up not make me a girl? Does being a theology nerd not make me a girl? I don't like sports, but liking sports is not what makes a person male or female. I thought it had to do with chromosomes and the role played in reproduction.

[Joel]

It just seems ironic that as much as they protest Gender not being the same as "sex" it always boils down to them not being happy with their physical body and sex and wanting to change it. So while they might try to claim there are 50+ genders, when it comes down to it, there are only two.

My understanding is that there is a strong disagreement among the social far-left between
- those who say that a trans-man is really a man (and trans-woman is really a woman) and no one may disagree with that, and
- those who say that gender is just a social construct, so there is no objective reality regarding someone being really a man (or woman), with respect to gender.

Those two positions contradict each other. (Though no doubt there are some people out there who make both claims.) I've heard that the former derogatorily call the latter TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist).