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>Sex and gender are both significantly more complex than just chromosomes, genitalia, or organs. Everyone reading this needs to look up John Money. The foundin
by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
>Sex and gender are both significantly more complex than just chromosomes, genitalia, or organs.
Everyone reading this needs to look up John Money. The founding father of "sex and gender are different".
- Shared404 4y agoWhat happened to Reimer was a travesty, and an affront to human decency on all levels. That doesn't change the truth that gender and biological sex are both characteristics of the human experience - usually they line up, and sometimes they don't.
- NaturalPhallacy 4y ago>That doesn't change the truth that gender and biological sex are both characteristics of the human experience - usually they line up, and sometimes they don't. I think it does, as that's the foundation of the notion. Prior to that, they were completely interchangeable and authors would use "gender" to mean "sex" where it was considered more crass to say "sex". Gender is just a euphemism for sex.
- Shared404 4y agoYou have causality backwards. It was believed that since they were not the same thing it would be possible to safely raise someone as an arbitrary gender despite that not being the case. The failure is in that both gender and sex are biological characteristics, and at that point in time Money believed that gender was strictly social - which is _clearly_ inaccurate. In short - Reimer was forced into the life of being a trans person, despite having been born cis.