Sexuality = What you're attracted to

gender is social and mental, with a difference between gender identity and gender expression (and presentation)

sex is biological and based on a lot of factors, including genitalia, hormones, etc (also not a binary)

sexuality is what genders (or lack thereof) you are attracted to, and is mental

I like my simplification better tho

Doesn't take as long to type

lol

O gohun

btw, according to dictionary.com the definition is:
```
either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior: the feminine gender. Compare sex(def 1).
a similar category of human beings that is outside the male/female binary classification and is based on the individual's personal awareness or identity.
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@Shabam

We'll dictionary.com isn't the standard. U mean a real dictionary.

That's obviously been updated by the fetish groups

do you have any other argument other than a semantic one?

lmaoo

lol wat

Lmao

Try Oxford english maybe

If that is the def you want to use, then it doesn't mean anything. Sex then is the only scientific usable word at that point

You're free to dilute the meaning of words but there's no reason for anyone else to follow

well, language is defined by the users, and gender is most commonly defined nowadays in the way I quoted

and its easy to dismiss an argument if you get hung up on how people choose to define a word

here, I have a question

what do you think being transgender means?

If you dont even know what being transgender is then you cant even have this discussiontbh @Shabam

That's someone changing between the two, easy

@Madeline <3 gender is not defined that way except by unauthritative sources

Changing between the two what?

Genders

Or sexes, but they're still their DNA based gender

Changing sexes more or less

there is no such thing as an authoritative source for language

it is defined by the users

btw, what being trans means is that you identify with a gender other than your assigned one

Trans means
Brain ≠ Body

I often see people fail to make the distinction between transgender and gender dysphoria, and they claim being transgender is a recognized mental disorder. Being Transgender is gender nonconformity.

Or you just get those who fail to see gender as a social construct and claim any nonconformity is messed up.
Altho, if Gender isn't a social construct, then what is it? Biologically programmed behavior?

Both, actually.

I wonder how that could be tested

Good question

As far as I'm aware, analysis of brain structures has shown that transgender people have some brain structures of the opposite sex

I thought all the evidence in sociology indicated gender is quite fluid.
Like, masculinity is hardly natural to men at all, it is socially constructed.

Regarding the brain structures, I am not sure, it could still have to do with the way we interact with our environment and take in information.

The differences were found in the basal brain structures, the one formed during development in the womb.
And besides, it's been proven repeatedly that men and women have structural differences within the brain that leads them to be good at different things.