• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    A person’s sex is science, but their gender is a social construct. I sometimes wonder if trans people would even be a thing if there were no socially defined gender roles (or assumed gendered language) and people could just be who they are. I suspect there would not be as there wouldn’t be anything to be “trans” from.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      A person’s sex is science, but their gender is a social construct.

      Even sex is not the black and white dichotomy most people make it out to be. The way we define and dictate someone’s sex isn’t reproducible for everyone. The intersex population is larger than what most people assume, and can vary in ways that defy the way we normally evaluate sex. It can range from someone having different chromosomal pairings, to having a varied arrangement of secondary sexual organs.

      Anyone saying that someone’s sex is scientifically dependent on “x” is either ignorant, or academically dishonest.

      • yetiftw@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        arguably science itself has been constructed in a social context ie a social construct