I get what they're saying, it shouldn't even be progressive it should just be like, fact. Like breathing, saying we should breathe is a neutral take, it should be as neutral as that.
Bro a game I played because (shoutout) Drew Durnil on YouTube played it, WHEN THE REPUBLICANS TRIED TO COMBAT LGBTQ+ RIGHTS, IT SAID THE DEMOCRATS CARE ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE'S RIGHTS MORE THAN YOURS.
Trans rights aren't even progressive agenda here. It's just the law and conservative here means not wanting to change the status quo, so conservatives are pro trans rights.
Trans rights are definitely. The only shaky ground might be affirming that specific interpretations of gender as a whole because this can be something that itself is even culturally intepretable(while the experinces themselves existed) and is releated to our lenses
this is where with anything that is communicating meaning from multiple groups you have to be aware just as much of not just the bias from the thing that is communicating but the users own interpretation bias too
There is a difference between saying that gender is a social construct as well as affirming the rights of trans individuals versus saying gender should be conceived through a lense of cis versus trans within a bimodal model.For example how should indigenous gender be interpretted with this model
The appropriate mode is to point out that gender PRESENTATION/REPRESENTATION are social constructs that have changed over time & were NEVER even truly binary or bimodal
Whilst also acknowledging gender IDENTITY is inherent & based on neuroanatomy as dictated by polygenetics & also is a spectrum
that is transright are objectively human rights yet a specific model of human gender may be as it seems you also acknowledge border into ideological territory. Yet language and users expectations often force us to acknowledge this too because we interact with these social constructs
In this sense, it could be taken as ideological or cultural specific to overspecify how gender representations must be concieved within a specific culture yet they also should be acknowledged and so should individuals rights when it comes to the expression(or what you call identity) existing
I think we are close to the same page though, but I was more pointing it out as a slight difference because of how language and labels itself act as a form of specific representations too.
my point is that even the labels of trans versus cis and how we concieve of them as the only models are to some degree dependent on that representational aspect(this also applies to cis individuals too) and how we undermine the fluidity of gender boundaries
I would suggest reading some of lightfoot's work on the matter. You might be interested in it.
I am a gender apathetic individual. I would argue my cis-male identity is a transposition of society yet the underlying feeling are as you say inheritant then filtered through a social framework.
Imo, it's neutral in that "trans people get the same rights as all humans bc they're human" is a plain fact. There is no real argument against it, scientifically, legally, or morally.
But we have to live in the physical human world, where many sub-grok-iq ppl are trying to hurt trans ppl.
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Gender is made up.
Trans Rights are just baseline human rights.🤷♀️
The fact that society views them as progressive or even radical just demonstrates how badly humans have failed & being humane.
Whilst also acknowledging gender IDENTITY is inherent & based on neuroanatomy as dictated by polygenetics & also is a spectrum
I am a gender apathetic individual. I would argue my cis-male identity is a transposition of society yet the underlying feeling are as you say inheritant then filtered through a social framework.
But we have to live in the physical human world, where many sub-grok-iq ppl are trying to hurt trans ppl.