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Originally Posted by Deviant
This is how I personally break it down...
masculine/feminine = characteristics
male/female = gender
man/woman = sex
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see this is where is get irrationally annoyed and confused. it's totally my own issue.
But growing up with biology and anthropology being spoon fed at an early age, it's
masculine/feminine = characteristics
man/woman = (two of many) genders
male/female = (two of *many*) sexes
so when people say "male ID'd butch", I go "huh?? but Male is a
sex, not a gender. I don't understand what you are saying. If you said you were transsexual, rather than transgender, I'd get it. It's why there are male horses, not man horses."
So it's a massive stumbling block I can't seem to get past in comprehending. I went away from the web for six-8 months and came back and everyone was using it, where as before, they called themselves TG butches. Which I understood.
It's not really anyone else's problem, granted, it seems to be only me that doesn't understand. I have tried. People have tried explaining. But I keep ramming up against "but... but... that's transgender... not transsexual..."
And it's not my place to tell people who they are. But the word means something
entirely different to me and sometimes it rubs me the wrong way
Not in any majour way, mind you. I think it's just something my brain won't switch on. TG butch = what some other people call male ID'd
butch. It's a Dictionary problem I can't seem to change. I still see them as who they are, mind you.
I suppose it's like inki and I arguing "that's green" "no it's turquoise"
this can go on for hours. she means pale green with a smidgen of blue in it (thus green) I see turquoise. To her, Turquoise has more blue in it. I'm also suspecting since people see colours differently, that perhaps I see more blue in things than she does.
we are saying practically the same thing but our perceptual semantics get in the way.