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Rengaria wrote:

Honestly, gender and sex is a great subject to study, especially casually (imo). I've been reading some case studies on it, like there was this one guy who had a botched circumcision when he was a baby so his parents tried to turn him into a girl, even had corrective surgery as a baby. So this guy grew up with his parents trying to make him into a girl, and he constantly rejected it, eventually he grew up and sex reassignment surgery, got married and became a step-father to his wife's kids, his parents then came out and said how he was actually genetically male and came clean. Gender, in most cases, is determined, at least psychologically, during growth in the womb, which is why in the case of the guy, he suffered gender dysphoria (in the correct usage of the term, not edgy transphobia)./

Huh, not aware of this case. There's the famous case of David Reimer, which is less positive. The case involves a guy who had a botched circumcision, was reassigned female, later experienced severe gender dysphoria, found out what happened, tried to transition back, and tragically ended up committing suicide...

Let's also recognise another problem with the gender/sex binary. Namely, because our birth certificates only accept "M" and "F", people born with intermediate genitals ("intersex") face the doctor's knife, often with really dysfunctional results, and often results in people growing up and identifying with the opposite sex to that reassigned. This is a huge problem in the realm of intersex rights.

This all intersects wildly with anarchism. The gender and sex binary is particularly a problem because the state enforces it. Doctors violate the "first, do no harm" principle because of the state. Queer theory fights for the rights of individuals against the authoritarianism intrinsic within our current system; anarchism fights for the rights of individuals from authoritarianism intrinsic within the state. I'd argue each is anaemic without the other.