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Russia can do a whole lot of damage to Georgia without making a single shot.

Also they can retaliate by annexing Abkhazia and South Ossetia (they wouldn't even need to falsify a referendum) which could lead to escalation that isn't likely to benefit Georgia and may not benefit the west.

My personal view on this is there needs to be a proper separation out of gender roles and gender. I see gender as an immutable, likely neurological in origin, self-perception. A bit like the mental blueprint you have of your body, and when the body and the blueprint don't match it often causes distress.

Then gender roles are then the stuff that a society expects someone of a specific gender to do. Much more mutable and varies from culture to culture.

It feels like a lot of the issues come from people saying that gender is a social construct while simultaneously saying it's immutable. If it's a social construct, then it can be changed, but if it's not able to be changed then it's not a social construct.

Sounds like Georgia is becoming Ukraine 2: Electric Boogaloo.

I'm sure the western satanists are involved and the whole thing is a plot to hurt Russia and that no genocide will come of it.

Much (all?) dysphoria is totally cultural, though.  Many trans women shave their legs, but smooth legs are not a female trait.  Leg shaving is just something (many) women do.  It's still very important to people, but it's subjective.

Furthermore both are impossible.  You cannot demonstrate you are an atheist.  I cannot demonstrate that I'm non-binary.  Not only do neither of have a responsibility to do so, we *can't*.  There's some outside chance we could justify the existence of atheists or trans people to this random offensive person, but we cannot prove who we are.  We don't need to.  The burden is on them to, IDK, make whatever case they're actually making when they "express doubt"

Technically 3 is more accurate, though slightly incomplete.  Genders are socially constructed and subjective.  "Manhood" means very different things in different cultures, and often changes decade by decade.  There are common ideas but the details evolve (or just change ).  Womanhood too.  And other genders as well.

  A man need not perform any masculinity whatsoever.  He must simply identify as a man.  Typically that means he wants to be manly, at least in some ways, but there is no requirement whatsoever.

This tactic is necessary because it's impossible to argue someone else's gender, and yet people feel compelled to try.