It's not that people are defending gender essentialism, they are just stating certain facts about bodies and brains based on the radically different hormonal pr

It's not that people are defending gender essentialism, they are just stating certain facts about bodies and brains based on the radically different hormonal profiles found in female bodies and male bodies. Just to give one example, typically female forms of ideation tend to be more holistic and integrative, whereas male forms of ideation tend to be visual, analytical, and reductionistic. Does this mean that women can't be mathematicians? Of course not. Same thing with bodies - men tend to have greater upper body strength and develop muscle more easily, whereas females tend to have greater difficulty developing muscle and find it easier to develop adipose tissue. Does this mean that no women can get good at bench press? Of course not, but it does mean that men are more likely to be the outliers in any competition of strength. None of this is to say that one sex is 'better' or 'worse' than the other. People who take these proven sex differences to mean that get offended for no reason.