User blog comment:Madkatmaximus/pronouns/@comment-4964341-20150107034521/@comment-25625534-20150107044813

hey you see that thing obi wrote up there?

"" First, not all people have a single gender, and not all people have a single sex (biologically). You don't have to be a "he" or a "she" to be a human. JSYK, gender is a social construct. It's an idea, a concept, that society expects people to conform to. It is most explicitly not something determined by nature, it's a human creation. The words "he" and "she" and their counterparts are also human creations. They aren't things that people have, they are ideas projected onto people. If I wear pink all the time, use makeup, style my hair, etc., I would not be acting "masculine" according to most people. However, it has nothing to do with my biological sex.

So if someone wants to reject the social construct of masculinity, including the way of identifying with it via pronouns, they are not necessarily denying their biological sex at all. Also, a single biological sex is not something that all people have, either, as has already been pointed out. It's not dehumanizing to lack a single biological sex, nor is it dehumanizing to reject the social construct called gender. One last time: there is no necessary or "natural" connection between gender and sex. One is a social construct projected on to people, the other is a biological category which most people are born into. "