Liberals are hypocritical (and irrational even if they were being consistent) to endorse gender stereotypes at all, and conservatives are idiotic to want to continue belief in the lies of gender stereotypes while ignoring one very major possible consequence of them: people thinking they are not a man or woman based on how their personalities and talents match up with the irrational social constructs of masculinity and femininity. Liberals tend to instead selectively oppose whatever arbitrary, false stereotypes are culturally popular to oppose while pretending that sheer individualism is not at the heart of rejecting stereotypes, while conservatives tend to dislike problems, real or imagined, that would not exist if people did not make the same erroneous philosophical assumptions they make. Both of these ideological groups contribute to the asinine misunderstandings of many individuals on these issues--not that any individual could not just reason the truth out with reason and introspective reactions to social experiences alone.
Trangenderism is ultimately a separate issue, just one that has been so conflated with the topic of gender stereotypes, which are epistemologically unjustified and wholly refutable all at once, that few people might recognize the irrelevance easily. Liberals and conservatives literally have very similar stances on the issue except when it comes to things like the actual matter of transgender surgeries. Both, unless someone is a liberal or conservative who denies the standard party tenets, falsely think that there is such a thing as masculine traits, or nonphysical traits men supposedly have, and femininity, or nonphysical traits women supposedly have. They then think someone is truly a man or woman not only based on the body they have, but also on the personality traits they have or behaviors they exhibit.
Not every possible reason for someone wanting to become transgender is rooted in stereotypes, as some people might randomly desire to just have the body of the opposite gender. However, the philosophies of both liberalism and conservatism lend themselves to some aspects of transgender ideology and popularity. These fools on the political left and right cannot see that the only things that separate the core of their ideologies are slight foundational differences. This is not even to object to the concept of transgender surgeries at all in itself. As already stated, that might have nothing to do with someone erroneously thinking they must actually be the other gender because of some stereotype that led them to believe men and women have gender-based personalities. It is just true that both major political factions, with somewhat different ways of embracing sexism, have directly created the social circumstances that make transgenderism such a mainstream trend to some extent.
Conservatives and liberals both directly sustain problems they complain about and criticize the other party for by continually supporting these gender stereotypes. People from either party might pretend that they do not relentlessly stereotype people and then compound their lies beyond that, but the ideologies of many liberals and conservatives have a great deal to do with supporting stereotypes while sometimes pretending not to. Liberals generally criticize gender stereotypes but then pretend like masculinity and femininity exist and think this somehow means someone could be a "female man" or a "male woman," based on what stereotypical traits a person with certain genitalia has; conservatives pretend like having psychological traits literally makes someone a "real man" or "real woman" and then are shocked when liberals both realize where this false idea actually leads: believing that gender and sex are distinct (as opposed to sex/gender and false, arbitrary gender stereotypes being distinct).
At the heart of many ideas in modern conservatism and liberalism, not just one or the other, is the pathetic error holding that personality and character traits beyond the structure of the body make someone a man or woman. They both might thoroughly despise the thought that what they have in common can actually outweigh their differences in some areas, but it is true all the same, and they are only too irrational and arrogant to come to this truth. When it comes to gender stereotypes, both of them, in their own ways, are delusional enough to believe that someone is not a man or woman for simply having a male or female body. There might be different attitudes and motivations behind this, of course, yet they still have an identical belief in common that happens to be easily disproven with pure logic, even without ever interacting with specific men and women whose behaviors already disprove these stereotypes.
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