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My Thoughts as An Autistic Queer Person

SDRSpark said:
At the most basic level, gender is a social construct
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I would love it if you could elaborate on that point more for me.
I don't understand gender as a social construct.
I see it as biology at it's most basic, and in the case of gender dysphoria, I guess psychology. Where the mind doesn't agree with the biological gender.
How does it become a social construct?
 

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Varzar said:
I would love it if you could elaborate on that point more for me.
I don't understand gender as a social construct.
I see it as biology at it's most basic, and in the case of gender dysphoria, I guess psychology. Where the mind doesn't agree with the biological gender.
How does it become a social construct?
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Sex is biology. Gender is based partly in a bunch of neuroscience that I don't even pretend to understand, but one look at how gender has been handled in different times and cultures throughout the world makes it fairly obvious that there's a strong social component to understanding and expression of gender.
 
SDRSpark said:
Sex is biology. Gender is based partly in a bunch of neuroscience that I don't even pretend to understand, but one look at how gender has been handled in different times and cultures throughout the world makes it fairly obvious that there's a strong social component to understanding and expression of gender.
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I think I have a separation between what an individual identifies as their gender (the neuroscience part), and a culture/society's perception of gender, or gender roles, or expected expression of gender.
Perhaps this is a function of the disconnect I have with society.
 
Varzar said:
I think I have a separation between what an individual identifies as their gender (the neuroscience part), and a culture/society's perception of gender, or gender roles, or expected expression of gender.
Perhaps this is a function of the disconnect I have with society.
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Sir I’ll have to agree with you, so I must also have a disconnect of society.
 
Varzar said:
I think I have a separation between what an individual identifies as their gender (the neuroscience part), and a culture/society's perception of gender, or gender roles, or expected expression of gender.
Perhaps this is a function of the disconnect I have with society.
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You pretty much nailed it.

Of course my gender identity is a wishy washy mess. I'd call myself two-spirit, because it fits better than anything I've found, but I don't want to be seen as appropriating the term. So I go with non-binary.
 
Ok this is fascinating, and confusing too. Is there a well regarded and widely accepted online resource to learn about all this? There are sooo many results on a topic search
 
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