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Quick question.
What. The fuck. Is this?
Where am I seeing it? On a NY Times article.

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Internal cannot be external.
When the term “gender identity” was first used, it described an individual’s knowledge of their sex as male or female.
Hmm that doesn’t seem entirely accurate to me. My understanding of the history of the term “gender identity” is that it comes from a few social-sciences branches of academia, primarily psychology (and especially its subdomain of sexology) and anthropology...

I copied and posted this yesterday but now I can’t find it – perhaps she deleted it. Anyway. Solnit of all people.
Golly, what’s the matter with us, getting all riled up about people pretending that some men are women. We must be those tiresome bitches who always spoil the fun....

Karleen Gribble at Quillette:
When the term “gender identity” was first used, it described an individual’s knowledge of their sex as male or female. However, the meaning soon changed so that gender identity delineated an internal sense of oneself as living in the social role of a...