This post is inspired by a recent user I interacted with accusing me of being transphobic due to disagreeing with the concept of “xenogenders”
Without going too in depth, this user identified as “swarmgender”, and believed they are part of a literal hive mind. This led me down a path of reflection, wanting to be accepting of someones identity while trying to understand it rationally, and I came to a pretty firm conclusion:
They’re fucking nuts.
I’m not saying this in a transphobic sense, there is nothing wrong with being trans…. But the medical terminology for what’s being experienced is gender dysmorphia. It’s a mental illness.
It’s important to acknowledge this because there’s a bit of a slippery slope going on where individuals with more severe mental issues are using gender politics to either
A: make themselves the bestest most specialist snowflake
Or
B: Obfuscate how fucking insane they actually are under the guise of anyone disagreeing being transphobic.
Anyway, this thread’ll be fun
I know it’s a pretty spicy thread huh. I’m honestly just glad the majority of people seem to agree that Swarmgender is bizarre
I’m a trans woman and I think conflating sillyness like “swarmgender” with actual gender variance does a disservice to those who don’t have a choice in the matter. It’s fine for one to identify as whatever one wants I suppose, but it’s an error to think one’s temporary self perception, expression, or way of thinking is the same as gender. Gender is a social construct, but that doesn’t mean gender = anything we want, words have definitions. Social constructs take years, often decades or centuries of cultural understanding and evolution to arise and stabilize, this is not the same as trend. Nobody will remember what “swarmgender” was in 30 years.