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WEBRINGS:
I have bought some nail polish, in one o my favourite colours, but I recently chewed my nails down to the bed. So I need to wait a bit before I try it. Also someone here once wrote something about causing allergies if one is not careful, so I am also hesitant because of that. Is that a real threat, or just bogus?=
I thought "Gender is a social construct." was an invalidating claim because my gender dysphoria felt too damn real for it to be influenced by society,
Was mulling over this quote from one of our cool and funny posters, because I thought this way when I was sixteen too. I guess I can't blame me, because understandably I was feeling insecure and "inferior" and all that shit, so it's kind of understandable that I took this as a sort of attack on the concept of gender. I was theory-free and a kid, Idk.
It still fucking sucks though, it fed essentialist thinking in me and probably led to some of the negative disposition I had toward, honestly most queers at that time. I was such an angry, morose little shit. My brain just wasn't ready for "gender is a social construct, and that is not inherently bad" y'know.
tbh i do think there is a physical component, i think people that are all in on gender being a social construct are missing some important points too. like why is it that i feel sane on estrogen? ultimately, if its a complete construct, that means i'm basically just making it up in my head. but of course, people can be low T, low E, etc and feel like shit, that is proven science. im of the opinion that whatever receptors that receive E or T must be receiving a low amount of it in trans people, enhancing dysphoria because your body is lacking something important.
of course, this doesnt mean someone cant be trans without dysphoria, or without medical transition. things can be more complicated than that. but the idea that its solely a construct is, imo, wrong. i think its a little bit of A and a little bit of B. though i guess you could argue everyone happy with medically transitioning is actually intersex, and gender is still a construct 
Well yeah the physical aspects aren't socially constructed, but "man" and "woman" super are. Nobody who believes gender is a social construct believes that the physical and chemical aspects are, unless they're a ridiculous terf. It's about the way we perceive these things and label them, all of the non-physical aspects of gender, since gender is not physical. Like in Gender Outlaw I think?
I kind of like the "everyone transitioning is intersex" though, that's funny ngl.
alright fuck it. i'll send in my application for new hexbear username after work tonight. hopefully by tomorrow i'll be posting under a new, ridiculously trans femme username
Finally! I changed mine because you had the idea first lol
I want to ask a question to all of our beautiful, sizeable Unjust Depths readers, especially ones who are caught up:
Are there any known, confirmed T4T relationships anywhere in Unjust Depths? If no, why not? I find it kind of suspect that shoving like 10+ trans gays into a submarine does not result in the world's most absurd polycule forming immediately =)
Fwiw assumptions are a bad idea with UD, so it could be that Maryam just hasn't mentioned it yet, who knows. But I'm over 2000 pages in, so like...
Addendum
Also I'm sorry for the ramblings, I will pick up reading the Second Interlude very shortly, I've just been waylaid y'know. Updates will continue as morale improves!