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AnSionnachRua · 4672 days ago · link · · parent · post: "If a person can be transgender, why not transspecies or transsracial?"
I think that one of the greatest causes of misunderstanding is that for most people, gender isn't actually the same thing as it is when spoken of by academics, psychological practitioners or transpeople; they do not think of it in the same ways, and it is rarely explicitly conceived of at all. Then, there are places and moments of rupture - as when one sees a man wearing a dress - that violate the unspoken, vague and sometimes contradictory webs of "gender" that exist individually and collectively in our society. Perhaps the mistake is that either understanding is correct.