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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Human beings are a sexually dimorphic species. There are two sexes - male and female. That is a distinct concept from "gender", which may not match a person's biological sex, and may be "fluid" in the sense that it's discovered over time. It's also possible to describe gender in the form of a "continuum".
However, none of these things are "social constructs". In this context the term "social construct" would apply to things like gender roles that are entrenched in culture, e.g. associating cooking with femininity.
Now that I've answered your question, will you answer mine, or will you simply attempt to use my response to distract from what I suspect is your inability to logically defend your own views on this topic?
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OK great, so, you're taking the position that gender is fluid, and not attached to biology. I find that position to have the same scientific merit as anti vaxxers.
Your question about why I consider it to be a defect won't really matter to you and you likely know why. I don't consider gender to be something that is removed from biology. I reject that notion that gender is fluid and I suspect society will never accept that either. The reason society is moving forward in a good way with homosexuality is that there's actual science behind it that even backwoods ultra conservatives can see. People are born gay and judging them and treating them differently for it is wrong. Same with people who have gender identity issues. The difference here is that there are people making the argument that gender is this fluid thing with no attachment to biology. I suspect that science will likely find that this is false, and much in the same way there's a gay gene, there's a gender identity gene.
(google searched that very thing and the first thing that popped up was this:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/arti...ender-identity
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Sexual identity may be hard-wired into the brain. Before a
developing embryo begins to generate its own hormones, genes are already
playing an important role in organizing the brain along gender.
Researchers from University of California at Los Angeles studying mice
embryos have identified 54 genes in which activity levels vary according
to gender.
Eric Vilain, an assistant professor of genetics at UCLA,
compared the activity levels of genes in male and female brains in
10-day-old embryonic mice—days before they developed sex organs. He
found 18 genes that were more strongly active in male embryonic brains,
and 36 that were revved up in female brains.
The finding suggests that genes play an important role in the early
development of sexual identity, and probably have much to do with shaping
gender in the mammalian brain. "This refutes the notion that hormones are
the sole influence in gender identity," says Vilain.
Still, scientists do not know how large a
role genetics plays in making the brain male or female. Hormones and
environmental factors are certainly a vital part of development.
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