Anonymous asked: I don't want to sounds rude here, I'm just very new to this. I'm wondering how gender being a social construct and being trans work together. Where is the line of anyone can be whatever they want regardless of their body and being a different gender than you were assigned at birth? Not unsupportive, not taking a stance... Just curious
No, that’s exactly it. We all have the right to determine our own genders. Gender is a concept of self which connects to your self-image, your sense of style, but also to your very bodily integrity, and to whom you feel closest kinship with.
You have the right to decide how you will wear your hair and where you would like it to grow, if anywhere.
You have the right to dress in whatever clothes you find suit your body and personality and desire for expression best.
You have the right to shape your body as you see fit, to load it with the hormones which give you most inward comfort, and to have the primary and secondary sexual characteristics which make you feel most at home with yourself.
You have the right to be referred to by whatever pronouns make you feel most at peace in social situations, even if they are not gendered, or if they are not traditionally enshrined in academic English.
You have the right to change your mind about any of these things as often as you want or need or please, and you have the right to the space you need to navigate and find your own equilibrium within your body, your identity, your whole self.
You have the right to determine for yourself if you are a man, or a woman, or both, or neither. And you have the right not to have these rights infringed upon by those with their own rigid and imposed ideas about what you’re “supposed to be”, because you know what’s best for your body and mind and heart than any stranger could dream to.
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No, that’s exactly it. We all have the right to determine our own genders. Gender is a concept of self which connects to your self-image, your sense of style, but also to your very bodily integrity, and to whom you feel closest kinship with.
You have the right to decide how you will wear your hair and where you would like it to grow, if anywhere.
You have the right to dress in whatever clothes you find suit your body and personality and desire for expression best.
You have the right to shape your body as you see fit, to load it with the hormones which give you most inward comfort, and to have the primary and secondary sexual characteristics which make you feel most at home with yourself.
You have the right to be referred to by whatever pronouns make you feel most at peace in social situations, even if they are not gendered, or
if they are not traditionally enshrined in academic English.
You have the right to change your mind about any of these things as often as you want or need or please, and you have the right to the space you need to navigate and find your own equilibrium within your body, your identity, your whole self.
You have the right to determine for yourself if you are a man, or a woman, or both, or neither. And you have the right not to have these rights infringed upon by those with their own rigid and imposed ideas about what you’re “supposed to be”, because you know what’s best for your body and mind and heart than any stranger could dream to.