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what's a gender abolitionist? : asktransgender

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is this a theoretical concept? idk why i always thought it was just another term for radical feminism, since they think in their ideal world gender shouldn't exist, and afaik, they only think trans people exist because of gender, sexism and things like that. (you can correct me if i'm wrong, never read too much into terf ideology.) terfs are attempting to appropriate the term to mean something else -- their idea of "gender abolition" is to make sex and gender synonyms, despite it not making any sense. real gender abolition is a distant and almost sci-fi ambition, and it's hard to imagine what it would look like. but the hope is that folks wouldn't be bound to follow social concepts that are tied to their sex assigned at birth. there wouldn't be social concepts tied to sex. there wouldn't be men and women and nonbinary people, there would just be people. some of them might love dresses and pained nails and makeup, but it doesn't make them a different category of person, and it doesn't c

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