Trans Talk on Sidechat | It’s assumed that sex and gender are different so it’s very hard to challenge that idea, but it’s like mind and body. We have two words and culturally differentiate the concepts, but both are philosophically problematic and harmful to marginalized groups.

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It’s assumed that sex and gender are different so it’s very hard to challenge that idea, but it’s like mind and body. We have two words and culturally differentiate the concepts, but both are philosophically problematic and harmful to marginalized groups.

Trans Talk 3w

gender is the sexing of the social body / sex is the gendering of the physical body everyone needs to read (more) butler !

35 upvotes, 6 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in Trans Talk. "gender is the sexing of the social body / sex is the gendering of the physical body

everyone needs to read (more) butler !"

Anonymous 3w

monism > dualism This is why there’s a push in queer studies for a unified concept (sex-gender) and why disability studies has for a long time used the compound “bodymind.” There are many challenges to mind-body dualism, for me, the simplest entry point is the problem of interaction, eg by asking “if these are completely separate entities, how do they interact?”

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OP 3w

I think the same question is helpful when reflecting on sex-gender dualism vs monism, if the two are posited as completely separate and distinct, why and how do we observe their interaction? etc