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Post by gw on Nov 30, 2020 21:30:09 GMT
My view was based off of chromosomes and the ability to procreate. But you have chosen to define gender in that narrow way. There's no scientific evidence that obliges you to define it that way - it's a judgement call on your part. The ability to procreate is a bit problematic too. Plenty of people are born without the ability to procreate - what gender would they be? If they have the organs of a specific gender even though they don't work, that would decide their gender I suppose or maybe we just refer to people by their sex. I'm sort of mixed on how the term gender is used because I think it boxes people in based on their eccentricities and often seems like it's just an easy way to sidestep the norms of being a man or a woman without challenging the social order. I can't say that that is true for all cases because of the mental differences and all, but once it gets to the point where people start making up their own gender identities instead of being male, female, or intersex saying things like "I'm genderfluid" or "I'm nonbinary" it becomes an impractical carnival where people feel that they can define themselves as anything they want to without any justification other than "That's what I want to be." and ruins the whole simplicity that makes gender so socially useful.
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