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  • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    What’s the biological support for being agender?

    I sorta assumes agender is often (but not necessarily always) a result of autism/asexuality intersecting with other gender stuff. Partly because that’s my personal experience. But probably also because on reddit, a lot of people on the agender subreddit found their way through the aroace communities (because of things like AAA battery jokes). So… it was practically 100% ace & autistic people and that might not be reflective of the general population.

    • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      …is that biological support though? Plus, I’m certain people arrive at agender without being autistic or ace now and then, has to be. Idk, “biological support” goofy…

      • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]
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        4 months ago

        The idea of “biological support” seems to be overly black/white thinking imo. Just another way of talking about “nature vs nurture” when its usually more of a “nature & nurture” for everything (although questions of how much observed variations occur to observed variations in inherited factors vs pre-birth environment vs post-birth environment are essentially still looking at trying to look at the same underlying question of “nature vs nurture” without making it a binary).

        So I don’t really mean to talk about the biological support issue. But if its the intersection of autism and gender, then whether agender can be explained as a biological would depend on your explanations of autism and gender.

        • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          4 months ago

          Yes that was my thinking too :3 I wasn’t a big fan of the concept either, hence my annoying hammering. And yeah that’s pretty much what it all comes back to, Idk I just did not dig “biologically supported” as a concept.