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Originally Posted by stevieray
social construct? is that why he's taking extrogen? something his body can't and won't ever produce?
...you can call him a woman all you want, doesn't make it true.
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Masculine and feminine are social constructs, behaviors that we attribute as innate to biological sexes male and female.
For example: for most of your life, pink was considered a girly color. It had feminine connotations. But that belief has only existed since the 1940s-50s. Before then, pink was considered another hue of red, a masculine color, and blue, with its softer palette, was considered feminine.
Well, why do we associate pink with girls and blue with boys now? There's nothing innate about the colors, we have just attributed values of masculinity or femininity with them, and given that they have changed over time, they certainly are not static.