Can’t help but to point out that gender identity is not the same as sexuality.
Good luck getting @dinafor2 to understand that.
If someone is using a word I don’t know, I’d like to be able to look it up. That’s the point of dictionaries.
An entry in dictionary proves the existence of something. Those people want to deny queer people’s right to live, so they’re upset if an objective medium acknowledges them.
Technically an entry in a dictionary only proves the existence of a word. “Unicorn” is in the dictionary, after all. But as some of these social justice issues gain more mainstream traction, more relevant terms will be added to the dictionaries and probably have more favorable definitions as well.
Oh no oh dear don’t make me chronicle the progression of the natural miracle that is the evolution of language as I swore to do when I solemnly took my Lexicographer’s Oath oh no that’s my least favorite thing.
Yeah, this has serious “don’t threaten me with a good time” vibes. The fuck do they think a dictionary does?
Almost as if dictionaries are supposed to be descriptive and not prescriptive.
For most of my life I was a gender abolitionist. I just didn’t care, really, about my masculinity. I’d still be down for GA except I recognize that trans folk get so much out of being their true gender. It makes them really happy, so there’s obviously something there.
I’d identify purely as enby (undefined) except I’ve become repulsed at how maleness is represented in society. With examples of masculinity like Donald J. Trump, Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan, I’ve given up on maleness, and have proverbially burned my man card.
(Oh, I recently learned my levels of T are atypically low and probably have been all my life. I am seeing an endocrinologist in December to see if I’m a candidate for hormone replacement. I’ll try it so long as I don’t become a sex pest or a Republican or violent. I may be sad if I lose my hair.)
So now I’m Enby (undefined, but absolutely not a man).
That’s an example of genderqueer.
I’ll try it so long as I don’t become a sex pest or a Republican or violent.
That’s just a really messed up view, and very terribly exclusionary. Even if we did abolish the concept of gender about 50% (+/- .05%) of that population will have elevated testosterone, and you’ve already decided the whole lot is bad just due to their bodies natural proccess.
It’s like saying estrogen better not turn me into a TERF like JK Rowling or a conservative like Margaret Thatcher. It’s simply a nonsensical view.
If it helps comfort you, I’m an enby, phenotypically male, bald as a cue ball, and my natural testosterone is so high I’m practically a teen despite actually being three times older. I am and always have been left AF and a fierce supporter of human rights, including bodily autonomy. I had an incident earlier in life which led to my testosterone temporarily dipping by about half for a few months and nothing about my behavior or beliefs significantly changed. I did nap more but that might have been coincidental. That’s about it.
I think most people like the guys you mentioned are just assholes regardless of their testosterone levels.
What sort of symptoms do you have from the low levels of T, if you don’t mind sharing?
Hell yeah.
