Posted on 05/28/2023 4:50:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Here is my take. From my medical textbook: http://clinicalmedconsult.com/
Gender assigned (recognized) at birth: a person’s initial assignment as male or female at birth. It is based on the child’s genitalia and other visible physical sex characteristics. When the obstetrician delivers a newborn, sees a penis, and announces, “It’s a boy!” that is not an arbitrary assignment. When a baby is born, what is the first thing everybody knows about? Often whether they are a boy or a girl. Many academics have now decided boys and girls didn’t exist. They claim that sex is in fact a “social construct” or a matter of “performance.” People on social media platforms have started to refer to people’s “gender assigned at birth”.
Gender expression: the way a person communicates about gender to others through external means such as clothing, appearance or mannerisms. This communication may be conscious or subconscious and may or may not reflect gender identity or sexual orientation.
Gender identity (or affirmed gender): a person’s intrinsic sense of self as male, female or an alternate gender, reflecting a complex interplay of biological, genetic, environmental and cultural factors. It does not always correspond to biological or anatomic sex. Gender identity is biological. Gender identity is the person’s innate sense of self as male, female, both, or neither and should not be confused with sexual orientation, an individual’s enduring pattern of romantic and/or sexual attraction. Transgender individuals have gender identities that do not match their birth-recorded sex. Many people believe that gender can be only one of those two things (what’s called a binary choice: this or that; male or female). Navajo and Hawaiian cultures recognize individuals they consider as embodying both male and female spirits. Indonesia, Albania, and India all have cultures that recognize a spectrum of gender expression. Some think of gender as being the degree to which you feel and experience your identity, which may encompass different aspects of traditional masculinity and femininity to varying degrees.
Gender Redefined: Your gender identity is different from your biology and comes from how you are socialized and the roles you take on. It’s important to understand that your sex doesn’t determine your gender identity or determine who you will be attracted to. Gender is your biological sex, but gender identity is how you feel—and you can feel different from the sex you were assigned at birth. Your gender expression is how you show others a part of your identity. Gender identity can be expressed in the clothes we wear, how we style our hair, and the ways we behave.
• Sex is not a social construct. In biology, there are only two sexes. This is true throughout the plant and animal kingdoms. An organism’s sex is defined by the type of gamete (sperm or ova) it has the function of producing. Males have the function of producing sperm, or small gametes; females, ova, or large ones. Intersex people, whose genitalia appear ambiguous (a rare developmental condition) or mixed (hermaphrodites), don’t undermine the sex binary. For the vast majority of people, their sex is obvious. Gender ideology seeks to portray sex as so incomprehensibly complex and multivariable that our traditional practice of classifying people as simply either male or female is grossly outdated and should be abandoned for a revolutionary concept of “gender identity.” (The WSJ. 2023;April 10 issue by Dr. Wright, an evolutionary biologist)
Yope, transgenderists = Flat Earthers is really fitting!
Unfortunately, there are many more transgenderists recently than Flat Earthers.
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