The thing with saying “gender is a social construct” is that the average person does NOT have the deep understanding of gender required to parse the difference between that and “gender is made up”, and this absolutely influences how the average person perceives trans people.
I fully believe that this slogan has a lot to do with the perception (and ongoing discussion) about trans people as simply “expressing ourselves” rather than trying to survive. And misinterpreting transness as a fashion statement has deadly consequences.
I believe this is a near-perfect example of a critical issue in the trans community currently: our messaging, and our most visible speakers, are overwhelmingly highly privileged and educated in the same gender studies systems that reduce living, breathing trans people to theory.
A catchy slogan isn’t more important than trans lives. Stop saying “gender is a social construct”.
I wrote about this more here:
https://twitter.com/alexpetrovnia/status/1408058011025805317
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