Vaginas and penises are a start. — Noble Dust
A man can go through extreme measures to look more feminine, including surgery, but he's still a guy. He still has an XY chromosome. — Purple Pond
Vaginas and penises are a start. — Noble Dust
Do these children still have wombs when this happens? do they have wombs and then they disappear? or do they not have wombs even thought they are determined as female at birth, and it turns out they were always male, the process just took longer to develop? — Mr Phil O'Sophy
Although the external genitalia can sometimes be completely female, the vagina consists of only the lower two-thirds of a normal vagina, creating a blind-ending vaginal pouch. Because of normal action of Müllerian inhibiting factor produced by the testes in utero, individuals with 5-ARD lack a uterus and Fallopian tubes. Thus, they would not physically be able to carry a pregnancy in any event. Even with treatments such as surrogate motherhood, female infertility is caused by the lack of any ova to implant in a surrogate mother.
So what of someone with XY gonadal dysgenesis? They have XY chromosomes but female genitalia (albeit with streak gonads rather than ovaries or testes).
Man? Woman? Both? Neither? — Michael
Traditionally, they also related to ones social role. — Mr Phil O'Sophy
I thought the argument of trans was that they were born that way and it wasn't a choice? To say its a self-selected identity undermines that argument. — Mr Phil O'Sophy
There is no real sex change — Purple Pond
One can change their gender — Buxtebuddha
I wasn't suggesting that you said it was chosen on a whim. To say self-selected, however you want to dress it, is to say that it is determined by a choice. A selection infers there was a number of things to choose from, and the one which was 'self-selected' was the one which was ultimately chosen. Ergo, by using such language you are suggesting it is related to free will, and not determined. — Mr Phil O'Sophy
Not if you say that the social roles derived from capability and general interest which are determined a great deal (although not completely) by biology. — Mr Phil O'Sophy
Being female, generally leads to more openness, less aggression, being more agreeable, etc ( — Mr Phil O'Sophy
Person's gender can change but no one can change their gender out of their free will. — BlueBanana
As a dog owner I can confirm that male and female dogs have different personalities — BlueBanana
I can also confirm this. I think you can say the same about wild dogs as well (so the claim they are socially constructed here doesn't hold). — Mr Phil O'Sophy
What I'm talking about is gender.The World Health Organization defines gender as "refer[ring] to the socially constructed characteristics of women and men – such as norms, roles and relationships of and between groups of women and men. It varies from society to society and can be changed. While most people are born either male or female, they are taught appropriate norms and behaviours – including how they should interact with others of the same or opposite sex within households, communities and work places. — Michael
What? — Buxtebuddha
It's become customary to make a firm distinction between gender and biological sex. According to that usage, gender is a cultural construct that is not fully determined by biological sex.What makes a man a male and a woman a female? [...] I'm not trying to be bigoted or transphobic but I just don't understand why we call a man who merely looks and acts like a woman a female. — Purple Pond
This seems a reasonable line of response to 's question about the gender of nonhuman animals like dogs. I suppose it's splitting hairs, but I might prefer to say that our conception of their gender is limited to a conception of their sex and sexual orientation, in other words, so far as we know they have gender in the "broad sense" but not in the "narrow sense" indicated above.We're talking about gender, not sex, and I don't think animals have genders. Your leading question is a red herring. — Michael
It's similar to personality. You can't make the decision to be someone else than you are = you can't change your gender. — BlueBanana
Just because we can't put in words the "essence" of a male or female doesn't mean there aren't specific characteristics that the constitute them. — Purple Pond
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