In my two native languages (Polish and Russian) there's no 'gender', only sex. Some men are more feminine, some women are more masculine. This is a matter of personality, not some mysterious 'gender'.
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Replying to @miszminska @HPluckrose
It's not really that mysterious. But it's made more complicated by the fact that the word gender refers to 3 different things. Gender roles, gender expression, & gender identity are not coterminous, although some equivocate between the 3 because they don't draw clear distinctions
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The one most people are actually concerned with, the one most people don't understand, is gender identity. This is just as biological as chromosomal sex. It is not a social construct. It is innate. It is located in the brain, and it does not always correspond with chromosomal sex
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because its origin is not dependent on chromosomal sex. It is, however, biological, hardwired into the brain. And I mean brain, the physical organ, not some nebulous concept of mind. There have been a number of studies done in neurology and the like, hard sciences, which have
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supplied sufficient evidence for the idea that there is such a thing as brain gender, that is gender identity. Some of these Studies have also provided evidence that gender identity does not always correspond with chromosomal sex. Exactly why this is so is still unknown, but here
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is a page which has collected links to numerous studies in peer reviewed journals of hard science, which provide the evidence for not only brain gender, but also that gender identity is not coterminous with chromosomal sex: http://aebrain.blogspot.com/p/transsexual-and-intersex-gender-identity.html?m=1 …
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The fact that the word gender was originally a purely linguistic term is irrelevant. The word has been borrowed to describe something which we previously did not have scientific data for, that being gender identity. While a new word could undoubtedly have been coined, the word
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gender was convenient, because, although in a linguistic sense, it doesn't necessarily have any connection at all with what we now call gender identity, there being words like Fräulein which is neuter gender, but obviously describes a young woman, there is *_some_* overlap.
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Replying to @GiovannaLiviana @HPluckrose
"The one most people are actually concerned with, the one most people don't understand, is gender identity." - So now we should reduce men and women to gender identity and ignore biological sex?
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I don't know what it means to identify as a woman. I only know that I was born a biological woman. I'm a female. I don't feel it and I don't think about it.
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OK. Other people do tho and I think they will continue to do so no matter how much you tell them about linguistics.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GiovannaLiviana
Yeah, and it makes them transgender. But transgender women are transgender women, they aren't 100% biological, normal women. From the scientific point of view, transgender women are men with feminised psychosocial traits.
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Replying to @miszminska @GiovannaLiviana
That doesn't relate to what I said either.
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