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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 01-11-2019

Nov 01, 2019 12:21

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Identifying as a dinosaur woodpijn November 1 2019, 13:22:19 UTC

AFAIK, there's a heated debate about whether only people with gender dysphoria count as trans, or whether anyone who prefers to be the other gender counts, even if their assigned gender doesn't cause them any pain or distress.

Presumably the linked Twitter thread is coming down on the "only gender dysphoria" side of the debate, since it's quite explicitly and emotively describing dysphoria, and since kids who want to be dinosaurs (especially the ones who are very into it) identify as dinosaurs to about the same extent as children in the non-dysphoric category identify as the other gender.

RE: Identifying as a dinosaur andrewducker November 1 2019, 13:36:45 UTC

I think that's a tricky one.

I suspect that, as with most things, there's a sliding scale, and multiple interlocking pieces. Where some people _hate_ being identified with one gender, some people just dislike it a bit, etc. And some people are willing to put up with surgery, hormones, etc. Some people don't want to change their bodies, but do want to change their presentation, etc.

Drawing hard lines across this and saying "This person is trans, and this person isn't" is definitely not something I want to get into. But I suspect that the vast majority of people who loved dressing up as a dinosaur as a kid might enjoy spending a few minutes as an actual dinosaur, or maybe even a few hours. But near-to-none of them would actually want to change long-term to be a dinosaur, and live with the negative impacts that come with that.

If there were no negative impacts to being a dinosaur (or, indeed, to being a different gender) then things would be very different, of course.