“Trans historian Jules Gill-Peterson notes how contemporary discussions of ‘gender identity’ largely efface its origins as a conservative response intended to suture over the epistemic crisis of sex as a clinical category. Rather than appearing through an emancipatory concern, ‘gender’ in this sense served as a sexological speculation, ushered in by eugenic experiments on trans and intersex children and adults. To their evident horror, clinicians discovered that neither genotype, gonads, hormones, genitals, internal organs, nor secondary anatomical features proved decisive. No one isolatable feature could provide the foundational, determining, and unambiguous influence on which binary sexuation could depend.”

This is imperative to point out. That through it all, through all the contemporary discussions of “sex” as biology and “gender” as identity and social structure, that at the heart of the matter, there is no physical binary

It’s all bullshit. Smoke and mirrors

When it became desperately obvious that there were no organs that could prove definitively a binary, they instead sought to foist the responsibility onto the literally invisible DNA. We were told to believe that at last the binary was proven, that despite the fact that chromosomes are not something that can be seen in social interaction, somehow, in some way, there were people with one set of chromosomes that were inherently socialized one way, and people with a second set that were inherently socialized another. And that, through some miracle, even after transitioning those little bits inside you that no one can see still set you apart

And even then it was a lie. XX, XY binary is not true.

There are more permutations of those chromosomes alone, and more than that, it is a complete and total fabrication that those chromosomes are the sum total of sexual biological expression

And we didn’t even know about chromosomes until the freaking 1880s. Yet somehow throughout all of history (ignoring the multitudes of plural-gendered societies that came before us that were suppressed by colonialism) those invisible little things that no one knew about definitively and eternally separated humanity into a binary.