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[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

I'm all for abolishing gender, and I firmly believe that gender is a social construct, but that doesn't mean gender is a choice (at least currently), nor does it mean that genders/men don't exist.

Just because you and I feel that gender is useless to us (and arguably to society) doesn't mean others have to feel the same way. Gender is oppressive, but it doesn't have to be

What it means to be "a man" is not the same as all the toxic bullshit currently associated with being a man. Trans men should be allowed to identify as men without it also meaning that they're bad people.