I don't know what idea your statement is supposed to express. Let's start with this - what is gender? I know what biological sex is, roughly; I thought gender

I don't know what idea your statement is supposed to express. Let's start with this - what is gender? I know what biological sex is, roughly; I thought gender was a synonym for it(this may be a translation/communication barrier). From googling the topic, it appears that gender is defined as "the expectations a society places on an individual of a given sex", which makes the "gender is entirely a social construct" statement tautological. I read about the "blank slate hypothesis", and it seems to be about something else entirely - it seems to be pretty vaguely referring to the "knowledge" and "experience" a human being might have from before they were born vs after. It seems rather naive to be aware of all the other biological differences between men and women but demand that they have no effect on "the mind", or more appropriately, on the expressions of will that a human being exhibits. I'm not an expert though, so maybe there's a deeper truth out there somewhere.