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Now before you start, gender and sex are different. Sex is purely biological, gender is all social.
Gender is causing issues in places like China and India. Why? Because Gender and "Gender roles" are causing males to be massively preferred. (A gender role, if you are unaware, is like what it says, roles assigned to each gender. People who are born as a guy are male and must do A, B and C, people born as a woman are female and must do X,Y and Z) This is causing population issues in these countries.
Now sure we can argue to give gender equality, which would be a good thing sure, but there's also the idea of "womens clothing" "mens clothing", "mans hair" "female hair" "female makeup only" and very similar ideas to these.
Now if we want a truly free society, why are people with XY essentially forced to fit societies idea of a male and XX are essentially forced to fit with societies idea of a female. Wouldn't it be better if we let people be who they want to be without being mocked by society?
And this is a fairly new idea, to me, that I've been thinking about. Infact not many people agree so I better prepare myself for the flames.
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There isn't anything innately wrong with the concept of gender, the problem lies with people that believe any of the following: - People must act like a particular gender based on their biological sex -Gender is binary -Gender definitions are absolute, or more precisely, people believing that their definitions of particular gender roles are necessarily universal That being said, gender doesn't seem particularly useful. It is just another label we make to try to simplify a very complex topic. Although if someone wants to identify as a particular gender, they aren't harming anyone.