I’m still sort of amazed that so many cis straight people honestly believe they are the only ones who can have children.

fandomsandfeminism:

anti-collectivism-anti-stupid:

fandomsandfeminism:

anti-collectivism-anti-stupid:

fandomsandfeminism:

Do you have any evidence that shows that “so many” cis straight people believe that? Most people understand that gay people can adopt and that lesbian couples will even have biological children of their own. If you’re talking about transgendered people it probably comes from a lack of exposure. So few people are trans. You can’t expect people who have a job and shit to do to be all over tumblr constantly like we - a younger generation that currently has more time on its hands - are.

My “evidence” i that I see people say shit like that all the time. This isn’t meant to be a peer reviewed sociological study. This is my feelings about something I experience quite often.  Many people really DO think this. 

My grandmother is a lesbian, and she had 2 kids. I’m bisexual, and I can have kids. Non-binary, trans, pansexual, asexual, all kind of people in the world who are not cis and straight are very capable of having kids.

And you know, I do sort of hope that even people who have jobs (like me) will become more educated and less ignorant about the lives of others. 

Non binary people would have to actually exist but that’s beside the point.

No one is really denying that the vast majority of people are capable of having kids. You’re mad about people who just aren’t thinking about it. Not people who are purposely being transphobic or homophobic.

Non-binary people aren’t imaginary, you know. And the concept of non-binary genders has existed in cultures around the world since forever. 

  • In Mesopotamian mythology, among the earliest written records of humanity, there are references to types of people who are not men and not women. 
  • In a Sumerian creation myth found on a stone tablet from the second millennium BC, the goddess Ninmah fashions a being “with no male organ and no female organ”, for whom Enki finds a position in society: “to stand before the king”. In the Akkadian myth of Atra-Hasis (ca. 1700 BC), Enki instructs Nintu, the goddess of birth, to establish a “third category among the people” in addition to men and women.
  • In Babylonia, Sumer and Assyria, certain types of individuals who performed religious duties in the service of Inanna/Ishtar have been described as a third gender.
  • Inscribed pottery shards from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2000–1800 BCE), found near ancient Thebes (now Luxor, Egypt), list three human genders: tai (male), sḫt (“sekhet”) and hmt (female)
  • References to a third sex can be found throughout the texts of India’s three ancient spiritual traditions – Hinduism, Jainismand Buddhism – and it can be inferred that Vedic culture recognized three genders. The Vedas (c. 1500 BC–500 BC) describe individuals as belonging to one of three categories, according to one’s nature or prakrti. These are also spelled out in the Kama Sutra (c. 4th century AD) and elsewhere as pums-prakrti (male-nature), stri-prakrti (female-nature), and tritiya-prakrti (third-nature).[ Texts suggest that third sex individuals were well known in premodern India and included male-bodied or female-bodied people as well as intersexuals, and that they can often be recognized from childhood.
  • In Plato’s Symposium, written around the 4th century BC, Aristophanes relates a creation myth involving three original sexes: female, male and androgynous.
  • Other creation myths around the world share a belief in three original sexes, such as those from northern Thailand.
  • Several scholars have argued that the eunuchs in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament were understood in their time to belong to a third gender, rather than the more recent interpretations of a kind of emasculated man, or a metaphor for chastity.
  • The ancient Maya civilization may have recognised a third gender, according to historian Matthew Looper. Looper notes the androgynous Maize Deity and masculineMoon goddess of Maya mythology, and iconography and inscriptions where rulers embody or impersonate these deities. He suggests that the third gender could also include two-spirit individuals with special roles such as healers or diviners
  • Anthropologist and archaeologist Miranda Stockett notes that several writers have felt the need to move beyond a two-gender framework when discussing prehispanic cultures across mesoamerica, and concludes that the Olmec, Aztec and Maya peoples understood “more than two kinds of bodies and more than two kinds of gender.” Anthropologist Rosemary Joyce agrees, writing that “gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as “male” and “female.“ 
  • Andean Studies scholar Michael Horswell writes that third-gendered ritual attendants to chuqui chinchay, a jaguar deity in Incan mythology, were “vital actors in Andean ceremonies” prior to Spanish colonisation.

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And for the record, I’ve LITERALLY had people tell me that only cis straight people can have kids. I’ve LITERALLY had people tell me this, multiple times. I had one person message me that EXACTLY THIS MORNING.  So, regardless of what you THINK everyone “knows”, I’m TELLING YOU that I’ve had people say this TO ME before.

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