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CMV: Gender as a whole is a concept that should be outright dismissed

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, as I've questioned my gender my entire life. Society has put so many labels on, and we have so many genders now for so many people with so many different feelings of who they think they are based on how society likes to put us into neat little boxes.

I've considered myself non-binary for some time now, and I've thought more on that. If society can agree that biological sex is separate from gender, then it seems odd that we would continue to invent names and attributes to every single gender. To me, this just seems like a society that is wholly consumed by following labels and wanting to be put into specific boxes in a shallow attempt to feel understood.

Since we agree that men and women can like anything and have any set of personality traits, and that although biology influences us, it doesn't decide who we are, what is the use in having any gender labels on ourselves at this point, aside from our biological ones? What does it mean to "feel like a man" or "feel like a woman"? I'll happily admit this perspective could wholly be my own ignorance as a non-binary person who's felt like both at times, reflected on that, and decided it was all nonsense to me.

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I believe anyone should be who they want to be, and I'm all for the rights to express yourself for how you want. So much so, that I believe gender labels actually are terrible for us; they inherently give people a stereotypical impression on who we are, rather than just allowing us to be ourselves. Pronouns should be relatively pointless in changing, because they say nothing about us. If you call me by female pronouns or male pronouns, that doesn't impact me in the slightest, because neither actually say anything about my character or who I am. They're just words we use that are convenient distinctions when it comes to things like biological reproduction.

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I believe using and inventing new terms of genders (as well as the original male/female dichotomy) and using any terms for genders outside of biological sex is essentially pointless, because either way it doesn't tell us anything about a human being and their gender shouldn't be relevant to almost any conversation anyways.

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Am I wrong from thinking this?

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edit: why am I being downvoted? Isn't the point of this subreddit to talk about beliefs that we recognize may be flawed or wrong? How about changing my view rather than downvoting me?
gpt
Gender and sex are separate, but not all that distinct.  Material sex produces ideas of gender; without biological sex, gender has no reason to exist at all.  And sex is the most fundamental, consistent and significant difference between individual humans, so recognizing that difference and allowing it to influence how we act is generally useful.

If we erased gender with a magic wand tomorrow, we would immediately begin recognizing and categorizing the broad differences between the two sexes of our sexually dimorphic species and constructing gender all over again.  It would be different, but it would be there all the same.  Whatever labels or pronouns we discovered would be regarded as valuable additions to language.

Gender exists as an emergent construct across all cultures precisely because it gives us a set of useful heuristics for understanding and interacting with other people.  We're not always aware when that happens and we usually take it for granted, and that leads some to erroneously believe it has no use.  But why does it happen *everywhere*  in *every time* if it's superfluous?  

But the proof is in the constant, ever-present use.  Gender is not a like scientific racism: backfilled nonsense to justify existing practice and prejudice.  Gender has existed and evolved since before recorded history because it has always been useful.  The idea that you should remove it if you could - and you can't - is pure hubris.