Recently Demi Lovato spoke out about ‘transphobic‘ celebrations as gender reveals continue to become popular.
In a lengthy nine-page post on Instagram, she posted opinions on expecting parents who announce their child’s gender through unveiling a variety of pink and blue party favors.
Lovato went on to argue that basing a child’s gender on their genitals is ‘inconsistent with science.’
Her repost on Instagram showed a series of text images entitled, ‘Why Gender Reveals Are Transphobic.’ It read: “It is both insincere and incorrect to pretend that gender-revealed parties are not transphobic. You can’t get your proverbial pink-blue binary cake and eat it, too.” The post continued, “This isn’t about political correctness, it’s just… correct. We condemn the revelation of gender, not because of our identity, but because of reality.”
The re-post went on to state that gender-revealed parties lead to the idea that trans people are less ‘natural/organic’ than anyone else.
“Transphobia is not just about prejudice against individual trans people, it’s also a way of thinking that understands non-trans people as more natural/organic and erases everyone else” the post added.
The post further explained that “These ideas, like the gender binary, fuel mistreatment of all people, but especially trans and gender non-conforming people.” Adding that, “Gender reveals are based on the illusion that genitals = gender and that there are only two options “boy or girl.”
“This definition erases the fact that there are boys with vaginas and girls with penises and that there are people who are neither boys nor girls. The idea that sex is based on genitalia is inconsistent with science,” it read.
“Gender reveals require not just the invalidation of transness, but the impossibility of transness. The assumption is that the baby is cis. Cisness is positioned as the default and everyone else is understood as derivative of it.” Adding that, “The idea goes: while we might “identify” as trans now, we were “originally” “born” cis and we later “became” trans. When in truth, everyone is just born. And we all become after the fact.”
It continued, “Even though we might have grown accustomed to other people gendering us, that doesn’t make it right. Only individuals can determine their own gender.”
“Gender reveals uphold the gender binary and the binary prevents people from observing reality. Instead, it offers culturally and historically determined norms (for example pink used to be considered a masculine color) as personhood.” It said, “People are taught to experience themselves and one another as ideas of how they should be, not the reality of what they are and what is.”
It added, ‘The gender binary requires that we adopt prescriptive ideas of gender (what men and women should be) as descriptive ideas of gender (what men and women fundamentally are). In this way, it naturalizes cultural myths as “biological facts”.’ The post concluded: “The irony is that trans and gender non-conforming people are accused of advancing a “gender ideology” when in fact we are trying to escape it. ‘The real ideology at play here is a system which romanticizes the denial of individuality in the service of maintaining category.'”
Crediting the original writer of the words, Demi added the following: “@alokvmenon with the real… Thank you for sharing your knowledge and always educating us.”
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