Gender fundamentalism

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Gender fundamentalism is a similarity cluster of beliefs which focus on the idea of gender as a fundamental quality that is:

• binary (male/female)
• unambiguous (people cannot be a different gender than they appear to be)
• inseparable from sexual role in reproduction
• ineffable (there is no measurement for it, other than birth genitalia)
• immutable (cannot be altered)

...and that is given to every human at birth, with each of the binary sexes having a set of qualities that go with them. Those whose existence violates any of these beliefs are either deluded (the focus of much anti-trans and anti-gay advocacy) or possibly subhuman (most notably intersex people), though this is rarely stated explicitly.

Subsets of gender fundamentalist belief include:

• gender essentialism: gender is essential and immutable
• gender prescriptivism: your gender determines your role in life (aka biology is destiny)