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I feel like the language is at least a partial issue, because until recently to me, “”biological male”” was the same as AMAB, but AMAB/AFAB is a much better description, and one that those freaks would never use

We do have different words for them. Sex and gender.

(! i see this upset someone who identifies as transsexual, so i wanna clarify that i don't want it erased! as i said deeper in the thread, i'm bothered by it in the way i'm bothered that flammable and inflammable are synonyms, but i understand now how voicing that can hurt, so i won't anymore! !)

that just refers to crossdressing (vest = clothing)

Hmmm ... I never thought about it that way. I avoid it because of how it is twisted by awful people, but they can and do do that to any word or phrase

There’s also people who are transsexual without being transgender. It’s such a useful term and I hate how huffy people get over using it.

Reactionaries insist that "transgender" is a fetish too, so is it really that different?

What happens when people sitting on the fence so long the end of the post has reached the bend in their intestines try and reason or argue down genocidal fascists to some reasonable middle ground--it just gives them further ammo to push their policy through in degrees

Let’s prioritize solidarity.

Horrific misinterpretation of "sex is separate from gender." Even if libs don't fully understood the anthropological/sociological underpinnings of the statement it doesn't erase the reality of it.

Buying into the idea that sex *matters* is buying into the transphobes' framing. (Maybe excluding sports - but hey, it's not like 20 years of scientific research about *that* mattered to the 'phobes either)

the other problem with this framing being that conservatives are legitimately too stupid to understand the difference

It's basically "sex is your physical body, gender is your mind". Which kinda works, to some point.

(! ig a more broad acceptance of identity is generally better, and we do *very* strongly support that (hell, we're plural by choice, and i'm *rambley* for crying out loud, i'm not about to police your identity x3), but i think sex≠gender still has its place !)

I think it was a wise move at the time actually, since before then a line was often drawn to distinguish medically transitioned people as "real trans people" and to further other those who couldn't/hadn't/didn't want to medically transition.

oh, there's definitely a contingent of folks that like the word (see also: my handle)

it might have fallen off but i like it and use it!

i honestly think a lot of it was also just plain ignorance. i didn't learn a damn thing about how hrt changes your actual sex until i was on it (10 years after coming out as trans). i didn't think to push back against that rhetoric because i didn't know.

they don’t wanna hear it. they want sex and the associated roles to be innate and irrefutable so they can uphold patriarchal rule and reduce womanhood to the ability to reproduce. no amount of logic or shared knowledge will ever change their minds if it means they lose their grasp on power.