Do you believe your gender is determined primarily by what you identify as? || Do you believe your race is determined primarily by what you identify as?
- Yes | Yes8%
- Yes | No19.9%
- No | Yes4.3%
- No | No67.9%
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Yes/no seems right to me, if you mean something like sincere identification. Gender concepts rely more on internal traits a person can identify in themselves, whereas racial concepts rely more on external facts (e.g. history) that you can lack even with sincere identification.
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The distinction between concepts that rely mostly on internally identifiable features vs. those that don’t? Another example might be the property of having a headache vs. the property of having malaria.
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There was an episode of "60 days in" where a white guy wanted to join the black gang, since he had grown up in the hood and felt more comfortable with them. There was a lot of drama around it, but it's good evidence for race really being about culture.
I voted Yes/no, but would have voted no for "sex" rather than "gender".
I'm taking "gender" to mean a very socially determined fuzzy thing.