User blog comment:UnderAPineapple/Pineapple Talk 7: What's Funny/@comment-27391152-20170828114910

Why are we talking about gender on SFW again? Not saying you shouldn't but I just found it a bit...weird.

ANYWAY, my opinion time so everyone shut up and listen to me.

First of all, I believe very strongly that there are only two genders that are very closely related to sex. I mean, if gender was TRULY just a social construct and has nothing to do with sex then how come more than 99% of the world identify as the gender that is associated with their sex? I find it hard to believe that 49% or so are just "too heavily influenced by society's gender norms" to come out as transgender considering how much it is popularised by the media nowadays. Obviously, I might not be seeing the full picture here and can admit that I could be wrong. Personally, I'd love to see an experiment isolate babies from birth with no outside influence to see what they would naturally gravitate towards to when it comes to masculine or feminine characteristics. No doubt this is never going to happen and is highly illogical but I would be very fascinated by the results.

When it comes to transgender/transsexual people (whatever they are called), I am completely fine with it. Similar to intersex, I view transgender people as nothing but an abnormality and believe allowing them to present themselves as the opposite gender in order to relieve gender dysphoria is perfectly fine. If somebody truly wants to become the other gender, for whatever reason, I have no issues respecting their wishes and calling them by whatever pronouns they can come up with so long as they don't interfere with my life.

That's all folks *tips hat*.