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Information Overloader
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NW Lower Michigan
Posts: 29,981
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First I think the word is sex, not gender. Gender is the classification of how one addresses persons of a specific sex. ‘She’ is gender. ‘Female’ is sex.
One can present themselves or identify with gender, irregardless* of their sex. However, contrary to what is now generally acceptable, one cannot change their sex.
The chromosomes X and Y are not gender chromosomes. They are sex chromosomes. Wearing a red dress, heavy makeup and exaggerated mannerisms is gender.
It is common knowledge and widely accepted that to control language is to control thought. ‘Sex’ was displaced in the common vernacular so that the ambiguities about what one decides himself (or herself) to be is acceptable no matter their sex. Sex is irrefutable. Gender is refutable. Because the genetics of sex are indelible, social pressure is used to force conformity and acceptance of one’s preference to a lifestyle and to social interaction.
Society defines gender. Chromosomes define sex.
*Still not a word last I checked.
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