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Put another way: sex is a bunch of physical attributes. People are generally assigned a gender at birth (usually male or female) based on those attributes. As t
by kdmccormick 3y ago
Put another way: sex is a bunch of physical attributes. People are generally assigned a gender at birth (usually male or female) based on those attributes. As they grow, each person may find that the intitial assignment fits them or doesn't. If it fits they are cis; if not they are trans.
- nomdep 3y agoExactly. The gender can change, but the sex classification remains. Trans women are women by gender and men by sex, thus different than those who are both women in gender and sex.
- kdmccormick 3y agoI'm saying "man/male" is a gender, not a sex trait. When transitioning, some sexual traits may change, some may stay the same. That doesn't mean a trans woman is still a "man" in any sense.
- mikrotikker 3y agoMale = sex, man = gender
- biome 3y ago> Put another way: sex is a bunch of physical attributes. No, it's an organised system of different parts whose development is coordinated to deliver a specific function: that of reproduction. We have sexed bodies - female and male - because of our differential reproductive roles, and have evolved molecular mechanisms to drive development of those sexed bodies to support each reproductive role. Describing sex simply as a "bunch of physical attributes" completely ignores that it is an evolved system function for reproduction, predicated on female and male gametes.