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@FinalOverdrive you were asking how gender accelerationists got on my shit list, and I'm in the mood to angry rant right now, so I figured I'd finally get back to that question LOL.

Basically it's because I had two gender accelerationists get all in my mentions to explain to me that gender doesn't make any sense without rooting it in so-called material conditions, that it has to be based in biology and "relationship to the means of reproduction," and that the concept of gender (and womanhood especially) were "evolutionarily developed in prehistory" (so just evolutionary psychology mumbo jumbo) as a way to describe a certain relationship to reproduction and reproductive labor and concomitantly to control women and enforce that reproductive labor on them, and that *since* it originated as this concept it can't *possibly* have grown far beyond it to be this complex sociocultural identity! No, we have to continue always defining it in terms of what they think — in their evolutionary psychology Just So stories — it originally developed to describe. And ofc therefore gender is oppressive and bioessentialist inherently, and what we need to do is abolish gender entirely. Worse, their plan for that is to produce "so many xenogenders that it becomes obvious to everyone that gender is absolutely meaningless and we should just get rid of it", just make so many genders that you essentially have gender fucking monetary inflation to the point where our gender is worth nothing.

Obviously I'm going to have a fucking problem with that, because that account of gender is the exact same bullshit one that Jordan Peterson and a million other conservatives give, just with a little bit of Marxist lingo sprinkled in. Sure they draw the "opposite" conclusions — they take it to mean that gender is bad instead of good — but it's still bio essentialist and it's still misgendering by extra steps and it's still trying to erase my identity. Oh, they claim that they don't want to erase or take away anyone's identity — they just want to create a world where that identity is obsolete, they say! But that's like saying "I don't want to kill transgender people I just want to make a world where there aren't any more transgender people." You're still trying to eliminate a cultural identity through some means, and I guarantee you that the only way you're going to completely eliminate any identity is through force and repression, because otherwise someone's always going to continue identifying with it. You can't kill an idea, ideas are fucking bulletproof bitches.

Not only that, but it demonstrates the exact same faux materialist pseudo intellectual belief that conservatives have that if something is a sociocultural construct or identity then it doesn't mean anything and doesn't make sense, that for something to make sense it has to be based in some biological fact or material reality. Their assumption is that xenogenders are inherently meaningless and pointless, and that's why they all identify with them and produce more of them, because they want to accelerate the production of genders and therefore accelerate people realizing that gender is "meaningless" and discarding it, and obviously that's really fucking mean and invalidating to my friends who genuinely identify with xenogenders.

And when I tried explaining to them that they were still operating on conservative bio-essentialist TERF logic, and that what they were saying was very harmful to me as a binary trans person and to many non-binary people, they kept just reiterating that "it's objectively true tho" and saying that "just because conservatives and TERFs also believe it doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to discuss it and believe it too."

And before you try to say that it's just those two gender accelerationists I started reading the gender accelerationist Manifesto and it's the same fucking God damn bullshit.