There is a Genetic Spectrum of sex/gender as well as a Psychological and Social spectrums of sex/gender. #MoreThanOneGene
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Replying to @jaspergregory
I don't find the Gender Studies distinction of Sex and Gender all that helpful. Ther are more than two layers: Genetic-EarlyChildhood-Social
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Replying to @jaspergregory
Most everyone wants to put people in tidy boxes. “Everyone” includes those who are upset they don’t fit in the standard ones.
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Replying to @Meaningness @jaspergregory
I like "gender is grammatical" bc it accomplishes the same dissociation from bio sex in a much clearer and historically truer way
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if you can wrap yr head around the idea that species represents biological facts but species taxonomy isn't in itself biologically "real" >
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< it should be an easy step from there to noticing gender is exactly the same kind of thing
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @jaspergregory
Bimodal distribution, is what you are pointing at?
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Replying to @Meaningness @jaspergregory
more toward the more basic point that it's a taxonomy not a natural kind (which a lot of not-exactly-stupid ppl still seem to struggle with)
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Ah, yes, got it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species … is fun if you haven’t seen it
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Replying to @Meaningness @jaspergregory
by the species analogy, denying trans identity is a lot like asserting there's "no such thing" as a mule when mating horse & donkey is taboo
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how do we *know* there's no such thing when social convention is precluding the empirical test?
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