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by DasIch 3653 days ago
At least until you have an understanding of what gender is, how you yourself fit into that social construct and can articulate it, gender is ambiguous for everyone, intersex or not.
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There's a simple answer here: gender is a social construct, and trying to define yourself with any of these categories just doesn't make sense.

Do you think that none of this has to do with socialization? Should we avoid any potentially gendered toys/activities (that are masculine or feminine) lest we ruin the child's natural, inborn gender?

Or should we take the much saner approach and not try to categorize children based on ridiculous buckets of traits?

All that self-identifying with a gender does is perpetuate the harmful stereotypes that surround the socialization for children of that sex.