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‘Basic’ being the key word. Take anything more than a fifth grade biology class and you most certainly encounter sex versus gender
135 upvotes, 13 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "‘Basic’ being the key word. Take anything more than a fifth grade biology class and you most certainly encounter sex versus gender"
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Anonymous 4d

This goes for literally every field and I don’t know why people can’t grasp this. Any field in STEM, the arts, language, history, etc. Is it really a foreign concept that what you learned in middle school isn’t the extent of those fields of study?

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Anonymous 4d

Excellent visual representation of it

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Anonymous 4d

There’s a name for this phenomena

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Anonymous 4d

My question tho is gender biology or psychology?

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Anonymous 4d

Yawr and whatever sex you’re born with you’re stuck with.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4d

or god forbid the human race ever learn new & reproducible information that even vaguely contradicts past knowledge in any form

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4d

That’s yet another gross oversimplification. It fails to take into account account the fact that doctors very frequently assign the wrong sex, it completely ignores intersex individuals, not to mention the fact that you’re assigned a sex at birth and not a gender. So maybe, just maybe, biology is more complicated than ‘Hurr durr boy have pee pee and he get blue, girl come out with hoo haa and she get pink’.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4d

I’m claiming that your sex is fixed at birth regardless of if you’re male female or intersex . It’s an unchangeable, DNA-encoded biological characteristic. However, gender is fluid since it is a social, not biological, concept. I never claimed sex was as simple as either being a guy or girl, nor did I reject the idea that it can be seen as a spectrum:

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4d

So when people suddenly start developing secondary sex characteristics of another sex at puberty that’s fixed? When people get karyotyped and find out their sex assigned at birth doesn’t match their chromosomes, that’s immutable? There’s no way to have an open, educated conversation about sex and gender while simultaneously dumbing it down to such simple definitions.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 3d

Gender = psychology, sex = biology. Gender ≠ Sex.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3d

So wouldn’t it follow that gender is not advanced biology? Since it’s pschology

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3d

In the first case you described did their DNA suddenly change from what it had been earlier in their life?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3d

Also I might be misinterpreting your statements since text conversations are easily misread, but are you claiming I am not acting in a manner befitting an “open,educated conversation” since I’m expressing an idea that’s different from yours? I find that a little offensive, considering I am doing my best here 😔

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