Race is not a “social construct”. If that were true, I wouldn’t be able to blindly tell your race via a dna test.
Where does all this anti-science rhetoric come from? I guess global warming and evolution is a myth too?
It's true that there is a difference between gender (and gender identity) and biological sex, but biological sex is more complicated than simple binary distinction, too, and done biological sex features correlate with gender identity better than those we have historically mostly relief on to set socially ascribed gender.
Perhaps in the future, we can do a better job at first-impression gender assignment as well as avoiding blaming the victim when we get it wrong.
Everything is a social construct then.
This statement is not true. The racial information which can be determined via a DNA test does not necessarily match up with what that person, or others, would consider their race to be.
Saying "words are a social construct so you could mean anything" is not a good faith contribution to discussion.
When you say race is a social construct because we may visually ascribe a person wrongly to a race seems pointless in an era of dna tests. The possibility of being factually wrong doesn’t suddenly make something a social construct.
If I see bear cub from a distance and then find out it was actually a dog, it doesn’t mean I should shrug and say that a bear and a dog are social constructs, so I wasn’t wrong because these distinctions are fluid based on the social norms of our day.
Why you seem to deny that science can blindly determine your ancestral origins (and thus race) with astonishing accuracy is beyond me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: it looks like you've been breaking the guidelines by using HN primarily for political arguments. That's something we ban accounts for, because it's destructive of what this site exists for (i.e. intellectual curiosity). Can you please stop doing that?
How is it not political when someone else says a man surgically inverting his penis into his body cavity magically becomes a woman?
But when I point out that the man still has the wrong chromosomes to be a woman, it’s somehow political?
Who’s arguing ideology and who’s arguing science in this scenario?
If that’s your idea of “intellectual curiosity” just ban me now. Please.
Correct. The surgery aligns genitalia with gender identity; social norms have evolved to align ascribed gender with gender identity irrespective of genitalia, so even viewing "man" and "woman" as labels of ascribed gender rather than identity the surgery is largely beside the point.
By fallout, I mean women are starting to realize that men identifying as women isn’t in their best interest. Feminist are already split on this issue.
In the US, the state of Connecticut has biological boys who identify as girls competing in female sports and blowing them away, displacing biological girls on teams and soon in athletic scholarships.
This throws well-intentioned gender based laws into chaos. Title 9 will be challenged as biological men displace biological women in sports at larger scales. The Olympics will be dominated and world records will be shattered by biological men in female gender events.
Then there’s the guy in Canada that spent $50 to change his gender to female and saved $1,400 on his auto insurance.
This era of self identification will end since sincerity is not an objective truth and can’t be measured.
Or, another possibility, all laws attempting to promote equality between sexes and races will be made useless.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.