• Dasus@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      I mean that’s a nice comment and all but

      many intersex possibilities on the gender spectrum

      Sex and gender are different, although often conflated because a lot of the times they’re still used interchangeably, as in most contexts sex and gender do align, but not all.

      Sex is usually categorized as female or male but there is variation in the biological attributes that comprise sex and how those attributes are expressed. (That’s the part your article and image talk about; sex.) Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people

      https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48642.html

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
        0·
        11 months ago

        no offense but why did you phrase this as though you disagreed lol the graphic in the comment clearly lays out the same distinction just in a different way

        In an additional layer of complexity, the gender with which a person identifies does not always align with the sex they* are assigned at birth, and they may not be wholly male or female.

        • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          It’s important to understand the difference between sex and gender. Even within the trans community very few people understand the difference.

          Gender is about societal roles, whereas sex is about biology. You can reject your societal gender role without wanting to change your body, and you can want to change your body while embracing your gender role.

          • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            see the rest of the comment chain; the discussion came to this understanding already

        • Dasus@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          I’m not disagreeing with the information in the picture, I’m reiterating it to someone who’s use of language showed they either phrased themselves poorly or don’t yet fully understand the distinction between “sex” and “gender”.

          Clarifying.

          • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
            0·
            11 months ago

            ok gotcha personally to me it looks like they get it and typed a funky short comment but you do you 👍

            • Dasus@lemmy.world
              1·
              11 months ago

              “many intersex possibilities on the gender spectrum” is “funky”", yeah.

              “intersex possibilities” don’t exist on the gender spectrum, because the gender spectrum is about gender and not about sex, which has it’s own (albeit more polarised) spectrum.

              Hope that makes it clear (although I thought I made it clear that was what I was objecting to in my earlier comment)

  • germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7·
    11 months ago

    The concept of binary and static gender is as much “basic biology” as three states of matter are basic physics or numbers being one-dimensional is basic maths.

    It’s an extremely simplified and archaic breakdown because 13 y/o usually aren’t smart enough for the actual uni-level stuff and the way we’ve seen these things for centuries usually are a good introduction to the topic.

    Transphobes coming with the “it’s basic biology” just shows that they’ve mentally never progressed further than the 7th grade; that they’re either unwilling or incapable of grasping the fact that the world is more complicated than we tell teenagers.

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You can have different genitalia than your chromosomes would indicate. Is it that hard to believe that you could have a different brain structure as well? I do believe that permanent changes should only happen once the individual is in their mid 20s, but at the end of the day I don’t want governments making decisions on what others can and cannot do to their own bodies. Trans (and LGBTQ) people have been documented in history since language was first written, but somehow when the science is more definitive on these matters people become more phobic to reality.