thaluikhain said:
No application? How about when talking about someone who isn't trans?
It's always male or female. If the person is not trans then there is no reason to bring it up as everyone and their mom will assume that their gender is the same as their sex. In reality no cares about your gender anyway... people only care about your sex.
thaluikhain said:
And, what has society considering it normal got to do with anything? Now, sure, it might be something many take for granted, that's not a reason for resisting a word for it. Lots of things considered normal in various societies have names, it's hardly unusual.
Because you would never bring it up. Ever.
No one cares that your gender is the same as your sex. Everyone will automatically assume that it is! Like everyone will assume that you are straight, because in 98% of the cases they are right about it.
And even by the off chance you did, guess what? You would need to explain the term which makes it useless to shorten the discussion anyway so you might start with the explanation right away.
Silvanus said:
Why would a term's relative obscurity make it any less valid as a term?
In our country a few years back (1999) some silly people invented a word to describe the state that you no longer want or need something to drink, that you are not thirsty. The reason is that in my native language we got a word for not needing or wanting anymore food but nothing for liquids. Basically they wanted to shorten the sentence "I'm not thirsty".
Of course to nobodies surprise no one uses that term or knows of its existence. (I'm not making this up so here it is: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitt )
If you now sit in a restaurant and the waiter wants to refill and you would decline using that term you would need to explain its meaning beforehand? doing that makes the term useless as you could have told the waiter that you are "not thirsty" in the first place.
It's a valid term I guesss? and utterly useless in real life.
Silvanus said:
The "general public" are unaware of hundreds (or thousands) of specific terms used in specific circumstances. That's utterly irrelevant to whether the term is useful in those specific circumstances.
Woohoo you got a term only someone in gender studies will use? bravo? the question was what I think of it and there you have it: Useless and unnecessary as without day to day application.