Rachel Saunders
1 min readJun 2, 2023

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Firstly, thank you for taking the time to respond, it is always good to have people engaging with my content.

Can I ask what you find confusing? While Wittgenstein was certainly critiquing semantic classes, I am taking a universalist approach to language. While I am framing this through a trans* lens, I am approaching gender an eight billion lived experiences approach. There is no one way to experience gendered identity, and to proclaim that a specific gender is the way of living that gender fails to account for all the othered lived experiences on the planet.

What is your objective truth? Is it rooted in your lived experience, or in a narrow definition you have developed over the course of life? Both gender and chromosonal biology have been contructed to fit whatever model we need to overlock a perceptable majority, yet the reality is that science acknowledges it is much more messy, intricate, and beautiful that a simple dichotomous approach. How you feel is personal, how others relate to you is also based on how they feel. Whose feelings get validated is where the points of contention come in.

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Rachel Saunders
Rachel Saunders

Written by Rachel Saunders

Writer, researcher, and generally curious

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