Intersex professor fears she will be forced to lie and teach only two genders exist

Fox News via NY Post ^ | 10/04/25 | Rachel del Guidice

[ANKE69]

>> "That said there is no need to lie. There are two genders, but this person has characteristics of both. That’s how to teach it without lying" <<

That is incorrect!
There are two sexes: male and female.
There are three genders ( a grammatical term): masculine, feminine and neutral
(not referring to either sex but only to people in general). Everything else is mental illness.
Why are so many people repeating this woke >gender< nonsense?

[daler]

ACK!

[Elsie]

Am I supposed to lie by teaching ‘only male and female’?”

NO!

Definitely NOT!!

You are supposed to tell the truth by...
... teaching ‘only male and female’!

[Elsie]

[Elsie]

Butt would he want to?

[Elsie]

Ya see Pokey, I have no genitals.

Gosh Gumby, can you still horse around?

[arthurus]

tHE PROBLEM IS LESS THAT THE LEFT REDEFINES WORDS TO CHANGE The problem is less that the left tries to change the meanings of words in order to change the thinking of the rest of us but that malmost all of the notmal people go right along with it; witness the instant left vocabulary use by the posters on FR.

[NorthMountain]

there are either 3 or 4 depending

I studied Latin, so I get the "3 genders". Four? I'm curious.

[HYPOCRACY]

masculine, feminine, common, and neuter. Masculine refers to male beings, feminine to female beings, common gender to beings of either sex, and neuter gender to non-living things or things without a specific sex.

I tend to lump common and neuter as one. I was always taught 3 in English classes.

[libertylover]

Morons?

[GingisK]

Yes, morons who can invent more than two sexes, and then publish.

My statement was indeed gibberish.

[NorthMountain]

Huh .. Yeah, I was also only taught three. I understand the distinction between neuter and common ... not sure how meaningful in practice. Also, the connection between linguistic gender and biological sex is a bit squishy.

Das Mädchen aß die Kartoffel.

[Tired of Taxes]

It may be a minor point, but...

No one here on FR has adopted the language of wokeness. The word gender has been a synonym for a person's biological sex for a long, long time.

The Left mixed up the two definitions and twisted the word to mean something different from grammatical usage or biological sex.

I remember the word gender was used as a synonym for biological sex 40+ years ago. Gender was used in place of sex on our school forms. I always assumed the school used the word gender with two letters to circle (M or F) to stop the silly jokes (i.e. boys would write "often" on the line next to 'Sex').

I own some old dictionaries. The 1967 dictionary lists the #2 definition for gender as "sex" (in colloquial use), which means the word was used in everyday language to mean the biological sex of a person. My 1989 pocket dictionary lists 'sex' as the #1 definition for gender. So, gender was used as an accepted synonym for 'sex' long before wokeness.

Let's go back even further... The #2 definition for gender was "a sex, male or female" in the 1828 Webster's dictionary (https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/gender) and the 1913 Webster's dictionary (https://www.websters1913.com/words/Gender).

So, the people who use gender as a synonym for biological sex are using the word correctly. We are correct when we say there are only two genders - male and female - when we use it as a synonym for a person's sex.

The Left twisted the definition to mean something different from biological sex. They changed it to whatever someone wants to be, instead of what that person is.