What does gender mean to you?

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When someone talks about "gender" what do you think it means?

Accepted Answer

Anthropology class is burning up inside me....

GENDER IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT 
SEX IS A BIOLOGICAL ENTITY
SEX AND GENDER ARE DIFFERENT THINGS 
THIS IS IMPORTANT TO DISTINGUISH BUT OFTEN CONFUSED

..... I am done here.

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Gender is a social construct.

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Whatever they feel like emotionally, regardless of physical attributes.

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Whatever they feel like they are.

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Gender is based on your anatomy. You are male or female, depending on what "parts" you're born with. It blows my mind that this is a debate these days.

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For those who insist you go by sex organs.

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Male or female sex.

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This debate is something I'm not completely educated on, and I do get confused quite easily lol, but I think there is a difference between your anatomical sex and the gender you identify with. I think gender is more of your brain and how it's wired while your sex is determined by your reproductive organs. There's science that supports a mix up of your brain's thought process and your anatomy. Sometimes you may be born with the mind of a female and the genitals of a male. It's not impossible to believe that babies can be born with a sort of deformities and that this is just another one of them.

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To me its what they are born... In a way. For all I know until they can speak is what they are born with. When my child is old enough and comes to me and say "mom I am (insert opposite gender they were born with)" I will support whatever they want to do from there.

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Maybe this will help.

What does gender mean to you?

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