one reason i don't really socialize any more

[amw]

So, yesterday there was another long wank on ONTD about transwomen just being straight men out to erase lesbian identity. I don't know why i keep reading these articles. Ostensibly it was an article about London Pride, but it also mentioned an "anti trans" protest that had been staged beforehand. It was a throwaway line in the Graun and other press

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[amw]

I think it is a really good point that gender is inherently oppressive. It's interesting to imagine a post-gender world. I think some people who are trans today would not be trans. But other people - those who experience body dysphoria - may still seek genital surgery. Would homosexuality or heterosexuality end up just being a genital preference? Is that all it is right now? These are challenging questions to answer for a lot of people because it gets to the root of their identity.

I remember a sci-fi book I found quite influential as a teenager was John Varley's Steel Beach. I haven't re-read it as an adult because I fear it might have dated a bit, but it was set in a post-gender world where people changed their sex and other physical characteristics at will. That kind of society really appeals to me - treating the body as a medium of personal expression - fashion and nothing more.

Btw I appreciated your post the other day candidly discussing issues of being bi vs pan and being in a relationship with a non-binary partner. I just listened and didn't comment because I wasn't sure I had anything insightful to add.