The OTHER thing behind “gender is a social construct” is that while I’m sure there are people who don’t feel a deep intrinsic connection to their gender, many trans people do. This completely ignores us and in fact, erases us in favor of theorized constructs.
The people who CAN transition without a deep sense of inherent gender (and dysphoria) are overwhelmingly those who are privileged. It’s good that they can get access, but their narrative being the dominant one systematically excludes vulnerable trans people.
Theory is not more important than living, breathing trans people.
A lot of aspects of gender, as we think of it, are social constructs. But, no, gender is not JUST a social construct. If it was, my dysphoria would only be social, and I would be living a much, much easier life.
I wrote about this more extensively here:
https://twitter.com/alexpetrovnia/status/1401268713320587274
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