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Are there only two genders/sexes?
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This is from a biology teacher, and one of the best summaries thus far.
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This is the issue in the question being asked by the OP
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According to APA sexual orientation is:
"Sexual orientation refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic and/or sexual attractions to men, women or both sexes. Sexual orientation also refers to a person's sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors and membership in a community of others who share those attractions. Research over several decades has demonstrated that sexual orientation ranges along a continuum, from exclusive attraction to the other sex to exclusive attraction to the same sex."
Recuperated from: http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/orientation.aspx
According to the APA dictionary of psychology, gender is defined as the following.
"Gender (n): the condition of being male, female, or neuter. In a human context, the distinction between gender and SEX reflects the usage of these terms: Sex usually refers to the biological aspects of maleness or femaleness, whereas gender implies the psychological, behavioral, social, and cultural aspects of being male or female (i.e., masculinity or femininity.)"
Gender is also not always a choice. There are a lot of psychological factors that are involved in people whose gender doesn't match their sex. In a lot of the cases it has to do with their parent's behaviors towards them and sometimes there are hormones involved.
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2. You proved my point, sex is biological, in definition 2, and psychological and behavioral patterns (gender) are ALWAYS a choice. I could choose to make love with my blankets, but that does not change my biological status as a male. I can choose to wash my blanket, but I am still a male. I could make a turban out of my blanket, but I am still a male. I have a lot of choices with the blanket, but there is no changing that I am a male. If I repeat the events multiple times, it would classify as behavioral, but I would still be a male. Gender is always a choice, because while we can not change our biological nature, we sure as heck can change the way we perceive ourselves, and our perception of ourselves is in every way a choice.
3. Distinguish between gender and sex, gender will never match sex because they mean two different things, and there are no arguments for saying gender doesn't match sex because sex can't change, gender is the one that changes because we perceive ourselves differently. Gender never matches sex because we come up with obscure reasons for how we feel, I feel like a woman, therefore I must be, that doesn't match with my manhood. No duh, you're still a man, even if you feel like a woman. Gender changes, but sex does not.
4. Hence, feelings toward gender can be altered by parental behavior and external factors, sex can not. Also, there are no hormones involved with gender or gayness. We are born with DNA, but we are not programmed to act a certain way from birth, we choose to be that way once we are older because we can make a choice, the choice is not set before us before we even consider it.
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The six biological karyotype sexes that do not result in death to the fetus are:
- X – Roughly 1 in 2,000 to 1 in 5,000 people (Turner’s )
- XX – Most common form of female
- XXY – Roughly 1 in 500 to 1 in 1,000 people (Klinefelter)
- XY – Most common form of male
- XYY – Roughly 1 out of 1,000 people
- XXXY – Roughly 1 in 18,000 to 1 in 50,000 births
Sex is on a spectrum. It is not just two settings.“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” - Benjamin Franklin So flat Earthers, man-made climate change deniers, and just science deniers.
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Can I get a source for this information? In the meantime, these instances are first and foremost very rare, and two if a person was born, say with two genitalia or genitalia growing later in life, it wouldn't change their sex. If anything, if this was to occur, then the mother and father could choose the sex, but this is a unlikely circumstance which morality is willing to accept to over arch the solidifying idea that there are two sexes, some deformities allow special circumstantial choices to be made regarding sex, but that wasn't a cause of human-made consciousness from the affected individual itself.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p6M-VgXHwwdpJarhyQYapBz-kRc6FrgdOLFAd3IfYz8/edit
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@SilverishGoldNova Re: "rare abnormalities"
@WilliamSchulz Re: "very rare"
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p6M-VgXHwwdpJarhyQYapBz-kRc6FrgdOLFAd3IfYz8/edit
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So, even if you've never had a penis, but you do have a vagina, breasts, fallopian tubes, a uterus, a cervix and ovaries - you are a male?
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/a-new-female-case-with-47xxy-karyotype-and-sry-2167-0250-1000157.php?aid=71945
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2680992/
http://www.iioab.org/Vol3(3)2012/3(3)49-50.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajmg.1320340317/full
Pardon the pun, but Y ?
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If you look, you will find that the question is actually: "Are there only two genders/sexes?"
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If there is no real way I can see to make someone “have to” make a special bathroom with having a legal requirement for it.
So that would be you.
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The basic definition of gender/sex is the same. Male or female.
The recognised physiological norm of gender/sex, is that we are either male or female.
That is not to say that all people are born displaying the recognised physiological characteristics of gender/sex.
As we know. Many abnormal physiological characteristics can arise during foetal development, not just characteristics relating to gender/sex.
Ultimately gender/sex is about the procreation of the species. In simple terms a female produces an egg and a male fertilises that egg.
Excepting issues arising due to appreciable physiological abnormalities All other gender/sex issues are socio-conceptually derived.
That is to say. How and who we choose to form relationships with and how we choose to derive gratification from sexual interaction with other people, are not actually relevant to the reality of gender/sex.
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special accommodations like build special bathrooms?
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The big difference, is that in one case broad accommodations are forced to be made, as you implied. In the other case there are no broad accommodations that are forced to be made.
The problem with transgender bathrooms or individuals is mostly conservative hysteria of their own making without any real or genuine concern behind it.
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There’s no legal requirement for any special accomodations at all (other than being able to actually use the bathroom), like I said.
In reality, also, the biggest expense / change that the schools are actually faced with that have opted to have a transgender bathroom, is simply the cost associated with changing the sign on a disabled toilet.
The Idea that there are broad, significant and weighty accomodations being made; is simply manufactured nonsense.
As I said; in reality the simplest accomodation you can make, is simply to let people use the bathroom, without using conservative faux outrage to try and use the government as a
tool to dictate where people should pee because you don’t like the people in question.
That really should be the end of it.
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I think if you look, you will find that the question is actually: "Are there only two genders/sexes?"
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I think if you look, you will find that the question is actually: "Are there only two genders/sexes?"
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It's already unfair, by allowing everyone to equally break the rule it becomes fair again.
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You mention that "they work hard to be the gender that they choose." End of case here, because this is the key difference between defining people. Sex as in male / female is biological, whereas gender is a choice. I can feel like I want to make love with my blankets, but that does not change my masculinity. Because gender is a choice, it is not a proper way to define people. We define people based on their work occupations, social status, and popularity, but this can not be applied to something that is given biologically, as homo sapiens. We are defined by our sex, not by a choice, because even if I were to choose something absurd, that would not define me. A choice is subject to change, yet sex is permanent and can not be changed. That is why sex and gender are separate and that is why gender should not be considered a factor here. You bring up work in that women are doing equal work of men. Sure, but this has nothing to do with gender, this is women triumphing in the legal rights to work. It was because of their sex that they weren't allowed to work, not their gender. In addition, working status has nothing to do with gender. Because sex is biological and working status is a choice, the two do not correlate here. Thus, I disagree that gender is social construct, I believe it is a human choice that is subject to change, that does not adequately define the nature of a person biologically. Maybe it defines their feelings, but feelings are not what makes us distinct from an elephant, it is rationale and our biological structure as sexual human beings.
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Stop obsessing about what people might or might not do in bathrooms.
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https://transequality.org/issues/resources/frequently-asked-questions-about-transgender-people
http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.asp
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You have clearly had a very religious upbringing, so ask your parents how they know they are not gay if they've never tried it with another of their own gender? They only know they are straight because of the pleasure straight sex gave them.
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