Charty McChartface
Wait, wait, he’s explained it all! It’s totally clear now.
"Biological sex is not entirely restricted to male and female”; “Uncoupling sex and reproduction challenges the analysis of sex as an innate and universal practice.” Text and diagram from: Is Gender Fluid?: A Primer for the 21st Century, by Sally Hines, Thames and Hudson, 2018 pic.twitter.com/0SGYNuT98u
— ELLIS CASHMORE (@elliscashmore) June 28, 2019
Now, granted, it’s not at all clear what that “chart” is supposed to mean, because “philic” isn’t the same thing as sex nor is it the same thing as gender, but never mind that, it’s a chart. I’m sure we don’t need more than that.
Updating to add an even more scholarly visual aid:
As my diagram clearly shows, the intersection of the traditional "sexes", plus love of cheese and ownership of dogs, creates at least 10 "colours" on the gender-spectrum.
Where do I send off to for my PhD, and do I need to include a postal-order? pic.twitter.com/faURDiKvqb
— Andrew R (@ExcelPope) June 28, 2019
How is it that “T” (which is about “identity”) got tacked onto LGB (which is about sexual orientation)? They’re really not the same, are they? How does the queer theory brigade get to ride on the coattails of the struggles of gays and lesbians? That it ends up resulting in the conflation of sex and gender has been a great boon for queer theorists, but a detriment to clarity, and now, clearly, to women’s rights. The combination is about as useful as conflating race with handedness. Kinda like the addition of cheese eating and dog ownership in the parody chart.
I’ve come to realize that the use of intersex people as a justification/cover for transgenderism would be like using people with vitiligo or albinism as a justification or cover for claims of transracialism. Apart from the use of intersex people as the thin edge of the wedge, to get their foot in the door, TRAs really don’t seem to care about them at all.
I find this chart to be horribly exclusive of cat people. I demand recognition for being a cat and cheese loving female!
The replies to this effluvium made my day. Twitter snark at its most hilarious.
As I first scrolled by, I thought this was the chart that Alice Dreger tweeted about yesterday. Apparently TRAs love themselves some charts!
Random observations according to the chart
1. Almost everyone is non-binary
2. About 15% of the population is neither male or female.
3. The binary population doesn’t like to have sex.
4. Heterosexuals are non-binary and comprise about 5% of the population.
,TRAs love themselves some charts!”
They might love this one at firsr. But when they realise it aays almost everyone in non-binary.
The baffling thing about that chart is that someone actually thought it made a good point. Yeah dude, there’s a word for ‘attracted to your own sex’ ‘attracted to the opposite sex’ and ‘attracted to both sexes’. That’s three categories, it isn’t complicated. Congratulations on coming up with a way of presenting this that creates fifteen cells, you ineffable ninny.
And it doesn’t disprove the idea that sex is a binary.
YNnB @ 1 – Lots of people are asking those very questions. No, gender idenniny and sexual orientation are not the same.
Holy shiitake. I read a sci-fi novel in high school about a future where essentially perfect sex change was as readily available, acceptable, and costly as getting your car repainted. That society had developed new language to describe their new reality. It was a lot like the chart.
Uncanny.
The book was called Steel Beach, I think.
And…the first chart is ‘spectrumed’ on Pink-to Blue!
I’m going to make the most generous the question, “How did the T get in here in the first place?” I suspect, at the time, it was an alliance of convenience and desperation. Transsexuality (ie, actual gender dysphoria) was, during the Stonewall era, often conflated with homosexuality. This was further confounded by the fact that many historical homosexuals cross-dressed in order to live out their sexual orientation in a low-profile fashion (something which induces many TRAs today to try to claim them as their own, rather than as people desperately trying to avoid jail while still living as they wished), and by the way that gatekeeping was imposed on gender dysphorics forcing them to live as hyper-versions of their desired sex to receive any treatment at all, and thus required to only show sexual attraction to their original sex–I’ve encountered at least one trans woman who took this to the extreme of believing that all homosexuals were actually secretly trans.
So at the time when every ally counted, the two groups seemed sympatico.
This doesn’t mean it was a wise decision in the long run. In the first few years of the Pride Parades, NAMBLA was permitted to march alongside everyone else, too.