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[Picture: Background: a six piece pie style color split, alternating pink, blue and green. Foreground: a picture of a wolverine. Top text: “’Gender is a social construction? Aren’t you erasing trans* experiences?’” Bottom text: “I..I don’t know”]
I typed up a big long response but I think I’ll post that later. Basically, as a student of sociology, I believe that gender is a social construction and that many people’s experiences, cis and trans* alike, can be thought of as being affected, influenced, and shaped by constructions of what it means to be a man, woman, both/neither/etc. Saying that gender is a social construction doesn’t mean that gender isn’t real or that it doesn’t have consequences (it certainly is real in many ways and it certainly does have consequences). I cannot speak for other trans*-identified people though so some people may feel that their experiences are being erased in some ways by this statement. Maybe more on this later.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjno3nOci1qhksrao1_500.jpg)
[Picture: Background: a six piece pie style color split, alternating pink, blue and green. Foreground: a picture of a wolverine. Top text: “’Gender is a social construction? Aren’t you erasing trans* experiences?’” Bottom text: “I..I don’t know”]
I typed up a big long response but I think I’ll post that later. Basically, as a student of sociology, I believe that gender is a social construction and that many people’s experiences, cis and trans* alike, can be thought of as being affected, influenced, and shaped by constructions of what it means to be a man, woman, both/neither/etc. Saying that gender is a social construction doesn’t mean that gender isn’t real or that it doesn’t have consequences (it certainly is real in many ways and it certainly does have consequences). I cannot speak for other trans*-identified people though so some people may feel that their experiences are being erased in some ways by this statement. Maybe more on this later.
