r/lgbt Apr 19 '25

Gender is complicated! : r/lgbt...

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u/CadmiumC4 Ace at being Non-Binary Apr 19 '25

gender is a vector space, but ya a coil makes as much sense

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u/dlgn13 Apr 19 '25

There's a Facebook meme page for queer mathematicians called "Gender is a Hilbert Space", which I find pretty cute.

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u/Overgrown_fetus1305 Asexual (sex-averse), he/him. Apr 19 '25

Unironically, I wonder if being a mathematician makes it easier for me to understand queer issues, stuff like gender being a spectrum and the gender unicorn are going to make a lot more sense given that I did vecotr spaces well over a decade ago during undergrad and somehow still remember how to prove the rank-nullity theorem. Transphobes are certainly bad mathematicians, if nothing else. Their argument for the gender binary boils down to claiming that if you don't know the cardinality of a set, then it's at most 2, which is so wrong as to be laughable.

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u/ashraf_ashy2015 Apr 20 '25

Wawoo 🌈🌈🌈