It’s fascinating how we treat others that we believe not to be in accordance to our norms and social construct, to people that don’t behave according to our perceived way of living. We tend as a society to react awkward to non binary and gender non conforming people. We have made a general if not a universal claim on what one is supposed to be like from birth, how one is supposed to be treated pertaining to the type of gender or sex since infancy. Even if there’s a little tolerance it isn’t acceptable by the lot. There were instances where even organizations and people in power say governments have laid down certain delegations that discriminated.
In light of this, some arguments have been mastered to either in my view continue discriminating against people that don’t consider themselves as part of any gender or sex which is binary or to keep abusing them one way or the other, have been divided into four main categories which includes the dismissal, inconvenience, biology and the slippery slope. This arguments will be carefully scrutinized and discussed starting with dismissal. In this argument it is believed that every human should have a common knowledge or sense that only two genders and sex exist and one can’t be either both or outside that circle, anything beyond that is a disorder that needs to be remedied. It is believed that most at times it’s just the internet in this modern times trying to provide a framework to accept different values when actually only two gender and sex do exist.
In addition, inconvenience. Social and cultural construct of gender have forced people to either choose a gender or be left out, individuals have been forced to join the majority as the minority which belongs to people who feel different and have accepted that style and attribute have been subjected to shame as the minority and have been abused one way or the other. It is now a norm for one to hide just for being different because there would be no one to support you therefore we are all subjected to avoid being neutral because it erases us from being either a man or woman and so therefore can’t enjoy any benefits allocated to any sex nor gender.
Also, biology. While gender is a cultural and social construct, Sex is biological and it is believed that’s how reproduction takes effect and so therefore one must be of natural cause being created or reproduced as either a male or female. There are researches that shows that men and women do have a lot of distinct features and that is enough for us not to doubt science that only two sexes and gender actually do exist where anything beyond is abnormal and should or must be treated as such.
Finally the slippery slope. It is widely known that this method of argument is employed so as to avoid some fallacies and troubles from occurring, it is believed that there will be chaos if we allow everyone to choose to belong to any gender, that to some extent anyone can choose to be something they are not and can’t or shouldn’t be. Should that not even be the case, it is definitely going to be of benefit to some particular group of people especially men and leaving women behind because society mostly enjoys hailing men as compared to women.
