My Thoughts as An Autistic Queer Person

[Varzar]

At the most basic level, gender is a social construct

I would love it if you could elaborate on that point more for me.
I don't understand gender as a social construct.
I see it as biology at it's most basic, and in the case of gender dysphoria, I guess psychology. Where the mind doesn't agree with the biological gender.
How does it become a social construct?

 

[SDRSpark]

I would love it if you could elaborate on that point more for me.
I don't understand gender as a social construct.
I see it as biology at it's most basic, and in the case of gender dysphoria, I guess psychology. Where the mind doesn't agree with the biological gender.
How does it become a social construct?

Sex is biology. Gender is based partly in a bunch of neuroscience that I don't even pretend to understand, but one look at how gender has been handled in different times and cultures throughout the world makes it fairly obvious that there's a strong social component to understanding and expression of gender.

 

[Varzar]

Sex is biology. Gender is based partly in a bunch of neuroscience that I don't even pretend to understand, but one look at how gender has been handled in different times and cultures throughout the world makes it fairly obvious that there's a strong social component to understanding and expression of gender.

I think I have a separation between what an individual identifies as their gender (the neuroscience part), and a culture/society's perception of gender, or gender roles, or expected expression of gender.
Perhaps this is a function of the disconnect I have with society.

 

[ForestGumpett]

I think I have a separation between what an individual identifies as their gender (the neuroscience part), and a culture/society's perception of gender, or gender roles, or expected expression of gender.
Perhaps this is a function of the disconnect I have with society.

Sir I’ll have to agree with you, so I must also have a disconnect of society.

 

[VictorR]

 

[SDRSpark]

I think I have a separation between what an individual identifies as their gender (the neuroscience part), and a culture/society's perception of gender, or gender roles, or expected expression of gender.
Perhaps this is a function of the disconnect I have with society.

You pretty much nailed it.

Of course my gender identity is a wishy washy mess. I'd call myself two-spirit, because it fits better than anything I've found, but I don't want to be seen as appropriating the term. So I go with non-binary.

 

[Varzar]

That is awesome! Thanks for sharing that @VictorR!
I think I need to google "Gender Expression" though to learn more.

 

[Skittlebisquit]

Ok this is fascinating, and confusing too. Is there a well regarded and widely accepted online resource to learn about all this? There are sooo many results on a topic search