what they really mean is that “men are supposed to be one way and women are supposed to be another,” with the implication that someone isn’t a real man or women if they are not that stereotype
What’s “feminine”? is that not a gender stereotype? I don’t think there’s anything wrong about being a man that closer fits a feminine stereotype than a masculine one.
I think what they often imply with that sentence is that being “feminine” / “masculine” / “other” is not what defines gender. For them gender is not linked to social stereotypes, so they would say that a “feminine male” is still a “male”, just one that is feminine.
you can fit the stereotypes for your sex but be trans
But the identity that I’m describing with that label, that exists at a level below social norms, and below stereotypes, even whilst being influenced by them.
I don’t know, I would not say that I knew automatically when I was born what’s the difference between “man” and “woman”.
To me, “man” and “woman” can’t be labels that go beyond the social/behavioral because I don’t know what it feels like to be a man anymore than what I know it feels like to be a woman…
Without this interaction with this external categorization: would you have been able to find anything was “different”?
To me, “man” and “woman” can’t be labels that go beyond the social/behavioral
