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It is so strange to me that gender being a social construct remains a controversial take in society. It feels like we're backsliding.
I learned this 17 years ago in sociology class at a public school. I then made a portrait series I titled Gender Spectrum and presented it at my small town county fair for 4H. I got a blue ribbon. None of this was weird or even remotely political, it was just me applying a bit of scientific knowledge from school to an art piece.
We are objectively backsliding.
Abortion is now illegal in half the country, same with gender affirming care.
Idaho is currently planning to challenge gay marriage, and is hoping to get it back to 'states rights' status... which would result in gay marriage being abolished in half the country.
Facebook just changed its TOS to allow users to call queer, gay, lesbian, trans, etc people mentally ill... basically they've just functionally legalized hate speech based on gender/sex.
EDIT: Woops, I missed one, add race based hate speech to the list of things now allowed on 'based'book.
Hate speech has never really been truely illegal in the US because the right to free speech is so strong, we've been fortunate to have social media companies regulate toxic content online in the past, but now it seems that era is coming to an end.
I didn't really use my Facebook account but I started the process to "delete it permanently" yesterday anyways, though I doubt it will do much except give me a good excuse to never use messenger or click on a Facebook link.
In my state teachers aren't allowed to teach anything LGBT including gender being a social construct.
Pornhub is blocked too,
So is abortion,
So is HRT under 18,
Books are being taken off school shelves, and the only librarian in my district who voted 'no' to a ban gets her name publicly released in a sea of 'yes'es essentially doxxing her (love ya Ms perry)
We are undoubtedly going backwards.
Crazy how fascists in power tend to do that. I'm mostly referring to the Republicans. And while the Democratic Party is also quite shit, they tend not to these things at least.