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It's funny that many languages don't have this „gender vs sex“ separation. For example in my native language there's just one word to describe man/woman option.
by mantas 4y ago
It's funny that many languages don't have this „gender vs sex“ separation. For example in my native language there's just one word to describe man/woman option. Some people try to bend over and invent new terms. That doesn't play well with claiming that somehow this „gender vs sex“ separation is not a new cultural phenomena.
- cantSpellSober 4y agoIs Lithuanian your native language? Does this word not fit the defintion? https://www.techdico.com/translation/english-lithuanian/transgender.html https://www.techdico.com/translation/english-lithuanian/tran...
- mantas 4y agoYou're looking at a wrong word. The word man/woman option is „lytis“. Both „gender“ and „sex“ was usually translated as „lytis“. „Translytis“ is just a term made of two words and describing a person who is such. English translation would be literally „transgender“. And it's used for people who, well, transition. There's an attempt to call „gender“ „socialinė lytis“ (= social sex). But doesn't make it sound like it's anything beyond socially constructed cultural phenomena.
- cantSpellSober 4y ago> English translation would be literally „transgender“. So you...do have a word meaning "transgender?"
- mantas 4y agoOr „transsex“ if there's such English word? Word „translytis“ is used specifically for those who attempted transitioning man<->woman.
- paulddraper 4y ago"transsex"/"transsexual" are English words, though they're seen as more archaic and non-inclusive.
- filoleg 4y agoI think you misunderstood what they were saying. They were trying to say that their language doesn't have two separate words to describe gender/sex, it is just one word, as they don't separate those terms. That has nothing to do with the word "transgender" existing in their language (which I would bet exists in pretty much any widely-used language these days, most of the time as a borrowed word). Not sure of their language, but it is the same in russian, with the single word "пол" (pronounced as "pohl") used to refer to sex/gender.
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- paulddraper 4y agoEnglish didn't have it either until relatively recently. The current usage of "gender" was introduced by American psychologist John Money in the latter half of the 20th century. It's popularity in common speech was accelerated by "sex" becoming a synonym to "copulation," causing "gender" being used as a polite alternative. -- But how is gender actually defined? Even now, the Oxford Dictionary: "gender: the male sex or the female sex" https://www.google.com/search?q=gender+definition https://www.google.com/search?q=gender+definition