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+		Disclaimers and definitions: This post is written in the context of my school and my group of friends therein. Please note that this post is a pattern-based generalization, and is hopefully not consistently true. Please also note that terms such as “female” and “male” below refer to biological sex, as it is biological sex that this pattern applies to. Due to the small sample of transgender students, and complete lack of intersex students at our school, this conclusion may be unrepresentative in a wider context. Additionally, “homosexual/homosocial” and “heterosexual/heterosocial” when applied to myself are relative to my male biological sex for the sake of this post. However, the essence is likely the same.<br />
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+		The implicit/instinctual patterns of social interaction in relation to biological sex is uncomforting. It is common to see friends of the same biological sex engage in intimate or intimate-like interactions but are perceived as completely normal, such as written communications involving Unicode code-points often associated with love e.g. the heart emoji (“❤️”) and emojis related to kissing (“😘”, “😚”, “😗”, “😙”), physical display of affection which is likely platonic e.g. hugging and patting, et cetera.<br />
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+		I find it possible to engage in such behaviour with friends of the same biological sex, but generally impossible with friends of another biological sex. This disparity is uncomforting, and definitely violates my postgenderist theory. In fact, should this cause tangible differences in advantages or qualitative changes in relationship because of differences in biological sex, this would satisfy all criteria to be considered a unduly discriminatory act.<br />
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+		Perhaps it’s just people gossiping? Although I have multiple recorded precedents across four years to demonstrate how gossip is likely to arise in platonic heterosocial relationships, but I hardly come across gossip even in obvious instances of homosexual affection. I don’t want to just throw it to vague social concepts and just blame the heterosexual-normative social context; after all, fear of gossip is not an effective mitigator for potential undue discrimination.<br />
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+		Or perhaps, based on the same social context, intimate interactions without explicit consent are more likely to be interpreted as sexual assault, under 18 U.S.C. § 2242 and YKPS Behaviour Policy § 5.4.3? (Technically any intimate interaction with any possibility of a sexual interpretation must be under a contractually valid and informed mutual consent, but it’s hard to draw the line, and playing on the safe side would mean asking “may I hug you [for the purpose of …] [no later than …] [no more than …]”, which seems rather ridiculous. And that doesn’t solve the question why there’s a boundary when it comes to biological sex.) This doesn’t make sense for me either because I’m pansexual, and there is nothing that makes an act of intimacy with a biologically female person more sexual than that with a biologically male person.<br />
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