Why I Do Not Use "Gender Variant"
04/20/2010 — Suzan
http://womenborntranssexual.com/2010/04/20/why-i-do-not-use-gender-variant/If one views "gender" as a social construct that has varied a great deal across time and in various cultures rather than as some form of unvarying absolute truth, a binary of one or zero, black or white then the very idea of "gender variant" is patently absurd.
It has become a force of faith based reactionary thinking to assert that there is such a thing as an essentialist based gender binary that one can be a variant of.
I'm an atheist and a secular humanist, and a whole hearted skeptic when it comes to ideas that seem to have as a core the reificattion of women as members of the second sex, inferior and less human than men.
