[xwdv]

Please help me understand, if gender doesn’t exist because it’s an abstract concept created by society, is all transgenderism basically just rooted in rebelling against how society has defined genders? Without gender there can’t really be transgenders?

If so, this could explain in my mind why they don’t respond well to jokes: they are actively engaged in a war with society that they are trying to win on all fronts. This has been an epiphany.

[a_shovel]

I don't know what you're referring to by "transgenderism". "Being transgender" is when one's gender identity doesn't match the one assigned to them at birth. Some of them do the whole "war against gender" thing; a lot of them just want everyone else to stop making such a big deal out of it and let them take their hormones in peace.

I'm in some communities with a lot of trans people in them, and in my experience there's quite a lot of jokes about being transgender that they find funny. I'd have to know what kind of joke you're talking about to make a judgement.

[xwdv]

“Gender identity” isn’t actually real. Biology doesn’t assign you a gender, it just gives you male or female organs. The “gender identity” is how a person with certain organs should behave in society.

So to be transgender, may not actually mean you want to physically be the opposite sex, it means you simply want to play a different role than what society says you should be. In essence, to be transgender is to be in opposition to society, not necessarily biology.

Therefore, a transgender is nothing more than a rebel, wanting to go against the norms of society, and now I see why people find them so repulsive, and why a transgender cannot take a trans joke told by a straight laced person.

It also means anyone can become a transgender in any moment, all you need is to find a desire to be the opposite role, and believe it in your heart to be true. Unlike homosexuality, this can be influenced.