For transgender people there is a mismatch. Subconscious sex: Deep down your mind has a built-in sense of its own gender that is independent of socialization or genitals or a Y chromosome. How can that be? Serano says it is because of: Serano says that not just as a trained biologist, but as someone who, despite male socialization, and even a Y chromosome, still sees herself as female. Gender: is not purely a social construct or a mere matter of performance. Sexism is best understood from both angles. oppositional sexism: the idea that there are just two well-defined, opposing genders.So much so that sports, say, are seen as a more serious subject than fashion. traditional sexism: men are better than women, masculinity better than femininity.It is not just men who look down on femininity – so do many feminists. The girl being whipped is anyone who expresses femininity, not just transgender women but feminine men and even cisgender women themselves. She looks at how assumptions about gender affect how we see not just transgender people, but men and women in general, underpinning our sexism. Serano has lived in the world as male, female and in between. “Whipping Girl” (2007, 2016) by Julia Serano is the book that gave us the word “transmisogyny”.
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