• Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    /r/gendercritical existed for quite some time. The entire point of that sub was for people to hate trans people.

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      1 year ago

      Ostensibly it was for people critical of gender as a social construct, i.e. essentially not real (not rooted in material reality). That used to be the progressive feminist position, until what feels like remarkably recently. I’m not sure I totally agree, but I can sympathise with that - you can definitely simplify the current model into biological sex and behaviour, without losing anything. The perceived importance, or essential nature of that behaviour, seems to be the thing that has shifted.