Is transgenderism in conflict with materialism? Transgender people and activists seem to imply that trans people are born with "female or male souls" in the opposite gendered body. To say that body is just a vessel for the soul sounds like Idealism to me. How can maleness/femaleness be separated from their material parts? Likewise,people who say that "gender is a social construct" are in conflict with people who say that being transgender is a legitimate phenomenon. How can gender be socially constructed (not exist) but also be this essential thing for transgender people?
What even is gender? Is your gender just the role you play in society? the way you dress? So transgender people have a yearning to dress a certain way and have certain jobs, and that feeling in built into them?
This all sounds like idealistic, anti-marxist bullshit to me, unless im mistaken. Of course, trans people can do what they want, no one should impede them from expressing themselves however they feel, but I don't see how it's compatible in any way with materialism.
There are male and female traits. Masculinity and femininity. For whatever reason some people act this way or that way, and it all doesn't really matter any more than what one dresses like.
Anthony Lewis
Oh yeah. I totally agree.
Jose Johnson
It’s stupid and I think trannies are deluding themselves but if someone really wants to live as the other sex, go ahead
Robert Jackson
but if gender is a social construct there isn't, there are just traits.
Again how can someone be born with the urge to embody one of sets of traits, to the point where they contemplate and sometimes go thorough with suicide if others don't believe they embody those traits?
