>> transgender means your body doesn't match your identity <<
Sometimes, not necessarily. Transgender is an *identity* and the identifying as part is what's important. There are a lot of people whose body might not *match* their gender but not be trans because they don't ID as trans for whatever reason. The choice in being able to identify or not and NOT being boxed in is as important in that as any label people get stuck with by default.
It's also moot if a culture doesn't always correlate body to gender. Then you can have a third gender person who isn't trans. My culture is like that, and I know someone whose culture has fluid gender roles based on social role and not body.
Haven't gotten to read most of this bc class, but I think it's important to comment, because treating identity terms as definitive labels does not help anyone.
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Sometimes, not necessarily. Transgender is an *identity* and the identifying as part is what's important. There are a lot of people whose body might not *match* their gender but not be trans because they don't ID as trans for whatever reason. The choice in being able to identify or not and NOT being boxed in is as important in that as any label people get stuck with by default.
It's also moot if a culture doesn't always correlate body to gender. Then you can have a third gender person who isn't trans. My culture is like that, and I know someone whose culture has fluid gender roles based on social role and not body.
Haven't gotten to read most of this bc class, but I think it's important to comment, because treating identity terms as definitive labels does not help anyone.
- Gray