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> there's no science around those, just word twisting and mental gymnastics. Why do you say that? What makes you so sure? https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-s

• kofejnik 9y ago
  Of course there's science around biological response to stimuli and its correlation to what person thinks of themselves, I wouldn't doubt that. What I'm sceptical about is "sex, ascribed gender, and gender identity." being so separate scientifically. I remember how about 10 years ago, everything seemed to be "a social concept", and I mean everything, including math and physics. Nowadays, it's all about 'identity'. Duh, I guess humanities "scholars" need something to write papers about.
  • dragonwriter 9y ago
    > What I'm sceptical about is "sex, ascribed gender, and gender identity." being so separate scientifically. Scientifically, they are (or, rather, gender identity and sex-correlated biological traits) are actually, apparently, fairly related, in ways which seem consistent with the idea that trans and non-binary gender identity is an expression of an underlying non-binary (if strongly bimodal) biological reality, and that ascribed gender based on a binary conception of sex is as poor a match for biology as it is for gender identity. > Nowadays, it's all about 'identity'. The three-way divide between objective traits, externally ascribed status, and identity or self-ascribed status, and it's generally importance a in uunderstandinghuman social interaction, is decidedly not a new thing.