The belief that gender is a binary, comprising male and female, and that the aspects of a person’s gender are inherently linked to their sex at birth.
Genderism is the cultural belief that gender is a binary, or that there are, or should be, only two genders — man and woman — and that the aspects of one’s gender are inherently linked to the sex in which they were assigned at birth.
It can reinforce negative attitudes, bias, and discrimination towards people who display expressions of gender variance or nonconformity and/or whose gender identity is incongruent with their birth sex.
Genderism is of particular relevance to individuals who fall within the transgender spectrum, and is the overarching ideology responsible for transphobia and gender bashing.
In addition, much like how transphobia is parallel to homophobia, genderism is said to be parallel to heterosexism.
Known uses of the word in professional contexts:
Shirley R. Steinberg (1 April 2009). Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader. Peter Lang. pp. 229–230. ISBN 978-1-4331-0345-2.
Genny Beemyn; Susan R. Rankin (1 November 2011). The Lives of Transgender People. Columbia University Press. pp. 89–90. ISBN 978-0-231-51261-9.
Derald Wing Sue (26 July 2010). Microaggressions and Marginality: Manifestation, Dynamics, and Impact. John Wiley & Sons. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-470-49139-3.
The Psychology Of Prejudice And Discrimination. ABC-CLIO. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-275-98234-8.
Norton, Jody (1997). “"Brain Says You’re a Girl, But I Think You’re a Sissy Boy”: Cultural Origins of Transphobia". International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies. 2, Number 2 (2): 139–164.
Roger J.R. Levesque (5 September 2011). Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer. p. 2641. ISBN 978-1-4419-1694-5.
Frederick T.L. Leong; Wade E. Pickren; Mark M. Leach; Anthony J. Marsella (1 November 2011). Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States. Springer. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-4614-0072-1.
Preves, Sharon Elaine (July 2000). “Negotiating the Constraints of Gender Binarism: Intersexuals’ Challenge to Gender Categorization”. Current Sociology 48 (3): 27–50.
Jack Harrison, Jaime Grant, Jody L. Herman (2011–2012). “A Gender Not Listed Here: Genderqueers, Gender Rebels, and Otherwise in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey” (PDF). LGBTQ Policy Journal (Harvard Kennedy School) 2: 22.
It is also sometimes used to describe Discrimination towards gender variant persons who fall outside of the gender binary; is prejudice towards individuals whose professed gender identity does not fit the gender binary as strictly male or female.
It is a type of transphobia and sexism.
It affects third gender, genderqueer, and other non-binary identified people.
Cisgender and binary transgender people can both display prejudice against non-binary people, and there is discrimination of this sort in the transgender community much like there is transphobia in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.
When you see someone using “genderist” in reference to trans people, you are immediately notified that they are engaging in hate speech, as they are trying to appropriate the term that describes them for use against the trans community, which holds *precisely the opposite view*.
Right now, here on Tumblr, the “genderist“ tag is being used by transphobic TERFs, Trans critical, and Gender Critical people to malign and insult and engage in violence against Trans people. Genderism, genderists are also being used as well.
Be aware of this, and do not be fooled.
Genderists are the people who argue that a trans woman is a man/male or a trans man is a woman/female. And the evidence of this use is above, in professional, actual use in legal, political, scientific, and academic standards.
Because I keep seeing it use by Terfs, and it makes what they are saying hilarious.
For example, even if you understand them perfectly, how you respond to them may not be how allistics expect. There can be differences in social and emotional reciprocity. While some of us do not experience some types of empathy, many of us do experience empathy (sometimes in abundance), and may simply express empathy differently.
It is very common that when autistics express empathy, they will relate it back to themselves personally. If someone told you that they were frightened by a dog, you might respond by telling a story that a dog once barked at you and you’ve been afraid ever since – allistics often see this as trying to one-up them, but for many of us this our way of explaining that we understand; it is an expression of empathy.
Even if we know have to respond to social cues, there may be idiosyncrasies in how we do it. While a lot of people talk with their hands for emphasis, a lot of autistics “talk with their body” in ways that are exaggerated, or we might go the other way and express little to no body language outside of stimming.
Eye contact is probably the most well known of these. A lot of us do not make eye contact, or only make eye contact when the other person is not looking, when they are not speaking to us, or when we are not speaking to them (I almost always look away when I speak to someone, for example).
When asked to describe something, we might respond talking about exactly what is going on – “there is a witch riding a broom. It looks like there are papers flying by her, so she is probably moving fast,” or something like that. Notice how I’m not actually describing her emotions? Does she look angry? Does she look excited? Who knows? Whether or not we describe emotion in a given situation, or when we describe emotion, can be very telling in terms of our social and emotional reciprocity.
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Me, shoving clothing into my bag: Well guys they found the Mass Relay finally sEEYA BITCHES I’M OFF TO BANG MY WAY THROUGH THE GALAXY GARRUS HERE I COME–
are we ever going to talk about how you have to get actual permission from both your captain and doctor in order to have sex with an alien
like who sits around Starfleet and makes these rules
For everyone wondering about this:
“All Starfleet personnel must obtain authorization from their CO as well as clearance from their medical officer before initiating an intimate relationship with an alien species.” (VOY: “The Disease”)
It’s true.
this is hilarious
yo captain i wanna bang this alien
sdfsldkfslkj this is the part of Bones’s job he hates the most, going through all the forms on his PADD to give the green-light to all these potential sexual encounters he just WISHES HE DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT IN THE FIRST PLACE but you know he actually DOES SOME RESEARCH to see if people will be COMPATIBLE whereas Jim just ticks the box, all, FREE LOVE, BONES and Bones has to be like GODDAMMIT DID YOU EVEN READ THE FILE, JIM, THEY DON’T EVEN HAvE ORIFICES and Jim is like, wow, Bones, they can still have fun, don’t judge
and bones
hates
everything
This sounds like the sort of rule that got instituted because of something that happened to Kirk, TBH.
It’s referred to in Bones’ log as “The Incident” and Kirk was itchy and purple for weeks
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