Because these are not too rare. Itâs one of the more frequent mutations.
But even a person with XXY is a male. Since the male gonosome is considered as a mutation of an X chromosome. Somewhere in the evolution of mammals and other vertebrates (or most likely much earlier) something messed up and created the Y chromosome from an X chromosome. Thatâs why genetic diseases are usually more frequent in males, since one branch of the X chromosome does not have some backup. Itâs simply missing.
So whenever a person has one Y chromosome. It is considered male.
The lack of a Y chromosome is considered a female.
This can also be seen in people with genetic disorders, such as three gonosomes.
XXX is a female
XYY is a male
XXY is also a male.
And to everyoneâs information: I am for Germany and we do not have two words for sex and gender.
I donât understand what you English speakers are up to.
I just wrote a comment above but I believe OP is mixing XXY with what the comment was about, which is likely Swyer Syndrome: XY individuals with female anatomy and gonadal dysgenesis. While they have a Y chromosome, a defective sex-determining gene leads to a failure to sexually differentiate into male gonadal tissue and leads to subsequent loss of downstream sex hormone production.
So I assume such people are identified as females at birth.
But if their chromosomes indicate that they are male, whatâs the gender then?
I think itâs a male then, right? Because when a defect leads to malformations, it still is a malformation. One that people could probably live very well with.
If the SRY gene is broken, theyâd still physically develop as female, though potentially with some abnormalities, rather than as male. Even leaving gender identity out of it, sex is still more complicated than ifexists Y; then male
But If I have a construction plan, and this plan is somewhat flawed, but I start building anyway, then I am still building the planned object, but with flaws?
I donât want to offend anyone. I myself have a genetic defect, much worse if you ask me, than some sexual genetic defect. I can barely consume any fructose without shitting myself. ÂŻ_(ă)_/ÂŻ
I think if weâre going to use the construction plan metaphor, it would be more accurate to say that the builders didnât get the message to alter the plans. Like if there was a house plan that was designed so it could be a duplex or a single family home by adding or removing one wall. Both options actually exist in the plans for the house at all times (yes, XX still has the genetic code for male anatomy), the SRY gene isnât the plans to build male anatomy, thatâs stored elsewhere, the SRY gene is more like a text to the builder saying âgo with option Bâ. Except in this case the text failed to send, so the builder defaulted to option A.
So at the end of the day, the builder doesnât put the wall in and builds a single family home, not a duplex. The owner may have wanted a duplex, but that isnât what got built. So is it a duplex or not? I would lean towards saying no, but weâre not talking about houses, weâre talking about people, so it should probably just be their call
I think youâre trying to oversimplify things a bit. Sexual differentiation is an extremely complex process. To be frank, a biological perspective doesnât really care about âwhatâs recorded on the government IDâ. As you get more and more granular, those kinds of generalizations become less useful.
For a pure science take, such an individual might be described as:
A 14-year-old unmarried girl was referred with complaints of primary amenorrhea and nondevelopment of breast. Her build was normal. Examination of her secondary sexual characteristics revealed no breast development, absent axillary hairs, and sparse pubic hairs. External genitalia was of female type. Karyotype showed genotype of 46, XY. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed hypoplastic uterus with absent fallopian tubes and ovaries. A diagnosis of Swyer syndrome was made. (Swyer Syndrome Case Study)
But that doesnât really fit on a driverâs license, soâŠ
Anatomically, they look female. They develop a uterus and vagina, but usually donât develop other secondary sex characteristics (breasts, widened pelvis, etc). The karyotype will show typical male XY chromosomes. Usually Iâve seen them classified as intersex because of this.
The sex of the baby will almost certainly be recorded as female. Keep in mind that while the karyotype might indicate XY, babies generally arenât karytotyped at birth, as thatâs a pointless expense for the overwhelming majority of people. The parents, doctors, and children wouldnât have any idea about their condition until:
Streak gonads are detected, which involves an MRI or ultrasound
Hormone levels are measured in a blood test
The child fails to undergo puberty as expected
Since only #3 is visible without a specific test, itâs usually the first indicator, and the other two tests are used as confirmations of the syndrome. Thatâs when supplemental hormone therapy and surgery are discussed as well.
If male and female are assigned purely based on physical anatomy, does it really matter?
No one in that personâs life would consider them male and doctors would treat them based on their sex characteristics - they may have testes but they wouldnât be external.
I have never been karyotyped and Iâm willing to bet most people havenât either; your sex is assumed based on your outward appearance even when your genitals are not observable.
I really donât think that having a Y chromosome makes you male when you literally have a vagina, you know? Especially when you could go your whole life without knowing.
If gender is in the brain, why does it relate to sexual (physical) properties?
Or am I missing something?
Because so far I understood that for example the sex can be female, and so can the gender. But what sense does it make to have female gender? There is just a human in your head.
So to me it seems like gender is a belief. Because beliefs are also located in the brain.
But then again⊠how important is this belief? And why are people claiming that there are more than two genders? Because of gender refers to sex, then what is going on there?
Iâm gonna throw a common metaphor at you. See my previous post in here for a more thoughtful exposition on my gender experience.
Gender is kind of like shoes. If you have the right kind of shoe, well fitted, on the right feet, you donât think about your shoes much at all. You know you have a certain type or brand of shoes on, but itâs not an essential element of your daily life. Youâre not constantly aware of them. This parallels the common cisgender notion that the self isnât gendered, that âthere is a just a human in your head.â If your shoes are too small, on the wrong feet, or made wrong for your feet, itâs a whole problem all fucking day. Itâs uncomfortable and disorienting. Itâs distracting and persistent. Over time, it becomes painful, and you use increasing amounts of focus and energy dealing with your footwear incompatibility. This is what being gender incongruent is like. You spend huge amounts of time and energy trying to deal with a profound discomfort and incompatibility that nobody else understands or acknowledges because their shoes are fine.
Because so far I understood that for example the sex can be female, and so can the gender. But what sense does it make to have female gender? There is just a human in your head.
But then again⊠how important is this belief? And why are people claiming that there are more than two genders? Because of gender refers to sex, then what is going on there?
Their are neurological and therefore psychological differences between people of different genders. These are normally aligned with their physical sex and hormones. When there is a misalignment between gender and sex thatâs what trans people are. Itâs not belief, itâs brain structure.
There is just a human in your head.
Do you not feel attached to your birth gender at all? Or any other gender? Like if you woke up in a body of the opposite sex would you be okay with that?
Statements like this sometimes make me thing the person I am talking to is either very ignorant or a very confused agender person.
Because so far I understood that for example the sex can be female, and so can the gender. But what sense does it make to have female gender? There is just a human in your head.
But then again⊠how important is this belief? And why are people claiming that there are more than two genders? Because of gender refers to sex, then what is going on there?
Their are neurological and therefore psychological differences between people of different genders.
But there are many nuances between people. It wouldnât make sense to try to distinguish between those nuances.
These are normally aligned with their physical sex and hormones. When there is a misalignment between gender and sex thatâs what trans people are. Itâs not belief, itâs brain structure.
This is a rather bold statement. To my knowledge scientists have yet to understand how the brain works. And I believe studies to identify peoples brain structure as gay, trans or straight would be very questionable. And dangerous I should say. Depending on the governments, this would be very dangerous. Imagine what the Russians or Chinese would doâŠ
There is just a human in your head.
Do you not feel attached to your birth gender at all? Or any other gender? Like if you woke up in a body of the opposite sex would you be okay with that?
I donât think that I would care much. I guess I would be annoyed by menstruation. I really cannot see any blood, I become unconscious and fall over like a bad soldier.
But other than that, I do believe that I could be happy in any kind of healthy body.
Statements like this sometimes make me thing the person I am talking to is either very ignorant or a very confused agender person.
I am just confused. So much is going on in this world. And then suddenly people create new concepts that are still somewhat in the making, under constant change, concepts that I have nothing to do with, but I donât want to get out of touch.
And I do understand that something is driving people, and usually people have good intentions (even people that are on the other side of a discussion). But I find this gender stuff to be difficult to understand. Especially the need to identify with something.
For me happiness comes from another place. Not from a (and donât get me wrong, I donât want to offend) self centred perspective. I donât feel the need to identify who and what I am.
I think one quickly falls into a mental trap there, because thinking and identity is something far too complex to articulate in language.
Iâd rather just enjoy time with people that are important to me and do stuff that we enjoy.
And to everyoneâs information: I am for Germany and we do not have two words for sex and gender.
I donât understand what you English speakers are up to.
I donât understand what you mean here? Iâm sure biological sex and gender identity are considered separate ideas even in languages without a specific word for them. To my mind a lot of transphobia comes from people not understanding thereâs a difference between sex and gender.
As for the XXY, Iâm OP and thatâs my mistake. I misremembered my biology lessons and thought a second X chromosome made someone biological female, rather than the presence of an Y chromosome making someone male. I replied to someone else explaining my mistake.
I donât understand what you mean here? Iâm sure biological sex and gender identity are considered separate ideas even in languages without a specific word for them.
Some people here in Germany claim so. These people use the English word âgenderâ, because German doesnât offer a specific word for that. But I donât understand why one has to differentiate. I donât think there is gender identity.
Identity is the constitution of my character and my values. Feelings and emotions are not part of character, they are reactions to stimuli.
To my mind a lot of transphobia comes from people not understanding thereâs a difference between sex and gender.
But thatâs barely comprehensible to me. How could it ever be, if my language does not offer this differentiation.
The way we talk strongly affect the way we think. And I am not thinking in categories such as gender and sex.
There is just gender (the last sentences sound weird. But I simply cannot translate it)
As for the XXY, Iâm OP and thatâs my mistake. I misremembered my biology lessons and thought a second X chromosome made someone biological female, rather than the presence of an Y chromosome making someone male. I replied to someone else explaining my mistake.
Identity is the constitution of my character and my values. Feelings and emotions are not part of character, they are reactions to stimuli.
What does that have to do with gender? Just because you think you donât care about gender, doesnât mean that society doesnât, or that gender doesnât care about you.
Gender: Social and sometimes people raised as one gender donât identify as being that gender
But why the word gender then?
Because if it only relates to the way someone was raised, then it is not connected to the sex.
The role of a male or the role of a female are very different in other cultures.
So gender becomes something extremely vague.
What if I identify my gender to be male? What does that even mean then? Is my gender then what European men are like? What kind of European man?
Or a Muslim man? Maybe an ultra radical Indian man who would burn his wife?
The role of a man and a woman is usually a purely social construct. Why would I identify with such a construct?
Itâs so vague. And what use does gender identity have?
We humans use such terms usually to classify the properties of a human. But the gender term seems to be a bad classification standard. Classification must be something specific. But this gender term is not very specific.
This English stuff makes me go mad. It makes me go mad.
Maybe for context: the German word âGeschlechtâ is also not the most precise. It means sex, but in the past it also meant something like old family, like the some old royal family. It is also used genealogically.
If I am a male and I am looking for a mate to make children, then I am not interested in the persons belief, what they believe to be, but their biological properties.
When does gender become relevant?
I have looked up gender studies. Gender studies started to analyse the cultural and social dynamics between the sexes. Also analysing the roles, male and females take in society according to their sex.
But the term gender, does that not undermine those studies? Because how can you analyse those dynamics, if gender becomes a term so loose?
Because words have a meaning and you donât seem to understand the difference between sex and gender so I explained it to you in the simplest way possible. If you want to argue that gender doesnât exist then I can refer you to tons of videos from people much more knowledgeable than you and me on that subject.
Itâs funny that you say âGerman is a precise languageâ and youâre mad that in English thereâs a word to distinguish between two separate concepts⊠Are you somehow trying to argue that German is a superior language instead of admitting that maybe it doesnât cover every possibilities? Wait until you learn about Japanese and Mandarin with their words for abstract concepts!
Why would I identify with such a construct?
You donât live in society?
If I am a male and I am looking for a mate to make children, then I am not interested in the persons belief, what they believe to be, but their biological properties.
Oh so then you donât mind if your mate looks like him or do you think it might be relevant to speak about gender now that youâre thinking about forming a family with that person? This part of your text also makes you sound a lot like you believe in eugenics⊠Trying to pass your genes based on the how good the other people is biologically and nothing else⊠Iâll leave it at thatâŠ
I donât know where you found your definition of gender study but itâs exactly what it says, women study has been a thing for ages, nothing unusual about broadening that field to encompassate more than just women and it just so happens that some people donât fit in what is men or women gender expectations.
Youâre stuck on the fact that genders vary from place to place⊠As if everything else is the same no matter where you look in the world? A person raised male but identifying as female might have been two spirit (a gender older than the society you live in by the way) had they been raised in a traditional first Nation family, but thatâs not their reality and as such they make their situation make sense in the context they live in.
Just because your language doesnât have a word for it doesnât mean people donât experience it, it just means your language needs to evolve. If the word for depression doesnât exist in a language then do you think depression doesnât exist for the people who speak it?
They are talking about things like Androgen Insensitively Syndrome where XY people are born with female anatomy. This is because the chromosome dosenât determine gentials but rather the hormones that chromesome creates. In the case of Androgen Insensitivity the body dosenât respond to male hormones so develops female gentials despite having male chromesomes because female is the default. Weiredly enough though the gonads are still male.
Well, since there is just one word in German for sex and gender, itâs the same thing here, some people try to use the English word gender (untranslated) here.
But I simply donât understand why this is needed. Itâs getting so mixed up and complicated, but at the same time it barely has any relevance. Because what does it add to society, dialogue or communication?
German is a very precise language, and I donât understand why some people try to soften it up with the English term of gender. Itâs so weird.
Iâm pretty sure alot of people use it interchangeably to mean the same thing. But I think over the years, gender has become more of a âsocialâ word and Sex as more of a âbiologicalâ word. I say Gender instead of sex when talking about someoneâs biology. A bit confusing honestly for non-native English speakers
Yes, itâs confusing.
I think I somewhat have an understanding of what the term âgenderâ refers to, it at the same time it is so untranscribable and somewhat extremely vague.
Race is a biologically misleading term. There is just one human race alive on this planet and itâs called Homo sapiens sapiens.
What English speakers are referring to as race is actually ethnicity.
The genetic variations between humans from different continents is far too little to make out different races.
There are no clear borders between one âraceâ to another.
Yes, I understood you the first time, but what does social construct mean?
Another race, thatâs what humans deem too different from themselves to consider them equal. (Even though there are not enough genetic differences to qualify for an actual different race). But these differences are physical and not socially constructed.
Gonna add this clarification up here for you: sex is xy or xx etc. Gender is wearing dresses and playing with barbie dolls, vs space ships and army toys.
Its pretty obvious xx has nothing to do with the color pink, and so sometimee xyâs prefer these societal structures, so they adopt them as their own.
Technically if an xy was risen as the female gender, they wouldnt even be transgender - their original structure was pink and shit, and so they never changed it. (There is argument that xx -> pink and xy -> army is aligned on the same âsideâ, so any deviation would be trans - but realistically theres only historical basis for this, nothing that would even make it to the hypothesis stage, much less official definition)
Okay, this description was really funny, but gender is more complex and inherent and canât be totally reduced to the social aspects. I say that getting my hormones corrected âfixed meâ because, after years of antidepressants and anxiolytics and therapies, turning off testosterone is what finally alleviated a constant, lifelong feeling of something being inherently, unquenchably wrong. This was a feeling Iâd had all my life. Treating it psychologically never touched that feeling. Even as my depression and anxiety and truama responses improved, that feeling remained. Even social transition just made it easier to cope with. HRT turned it off. If you or anyone else reading this is familiar with the Dark Tower books, Iâve long made comparisons to Jakeâs split timeline. You know implicitly that you should be having a different emergent experience of life, of body, of puberty, but timeâs arrow neither slows nor reverses. Youâre stuck living in two timelines, and every step towards transition brings them closer to harmony, and at least for me, HRT totally collapsed them into a single life. This is the human experience that has the cultural mapor code of pink vs armies laid over it.
Itâs more complex because theyâre related, but not always.
Genetic sex is the basis for some epigenetic status, which causes some organs to develop more in this or that way, including structures in the brain, which in turn impact behavior, which tends to cause some social preferences.
But none of those steps is written in stone. While âusuallyâ and âif everything goes as expectedâ an XY and XX will develop following certain patterns all the way from genetics to social preferences, there are also a lot of cases where either one of the steps didnât go as expected: maybe it went the opposite way, or only worked partially, or not at all, or whatever else.
Itâs basically unpredictable, and the worst thing is to get stuck in a status where part of you says one thing, while another part says something else. HRT is just one way to change the part thatâs easiest to change in a particular case to keep things as close to harmonized as possible.
Tbh, this doesnât feel like a response to my post. All I was getting at is that gender is more complex and inherent than just social structures. There are social, psychological, and physiological aspects to gender. A lot of people reduce it to a social/cultural phenomenon, which inevitably leads someone to question the necessity of medical transition. Many trans people, myself included, will/would permanently struggle with chemical dysphoria our whole lives if we relegate the condition and its treatment to psychology and sociology. Thatâs all I wanted to say. To me, HRT is that science so advanced as to be indistinguishable from magic. Spironolactone was a revelation in me, and my first few estrogen injections were all but religious experiences.
Is he mixing up people with 3 gonosomes?
Because these are not too rare. Itâs one of the more frequent mutations.
But even a person with XXY is a male. Since the male gonosome is considered as a mutation of an X chromosome. Somewhere in the evolution of mammals and other vertebrates (or most likely much earlier) something messed up and created the Y chromosome from an X chromosome. Thatâs why genetic diseases are usually more frequent in males, since one branch of the X chromosome does not have some backup. Itâs simply missing.
So whenever a person has one Y chromosome. It is considered male. The lack of a Y chromosome is considered a female.
This can also be seen in people with genetic disorders, such as three gonosomes. XXX is a female XYY is a male XXY is also a male.
And to everyoneâs information: I am for Germany and we do not have two words for sex and gender.
I donât understand what you English speakers are up to.
I just wrote a comment above but I believe OP is mixing XXY with what the comment was about, which is likely Swyer Syndrome: XY individuals with female anatomy and gonadal dysgenesis. While they have a Y chromosome, a defective sex-determining gene leads to a failure to sexually differentiate into male gonadal tissue and leads to subsequent loss of downstream sex hormone production.
So I assume such people are identified as females at birth. But if their chromosomes indicate that they are male, whatâs the gender then?
I think itâs a male then, right? Because when a defect leads to malformations, it still is a malformation. One that people could probably live very well with.
If the SRY gene is broken, theyâd still physically develop as female, though potentially with some abnormalities, rather than as male. Even leaving gender identity out of it, sex is still more complicated than
if exists Y; then maleBut If I have a construction plan, and this plan is somewhat flawed, but I start building anyway, then I am still building the planned object, but with flaws?
I donât want to offend anyone. I myself have a genetic defect, much worse if you ask me, than some sexual genetic defect. I can barely consume any fructose without shitting myself. ÂŻ_(ă)_/ÂŻ
I think if weâre going to use the construction plan metaphor, it would be more accurate to say that the builders didnât get the message to alter the plans. Like if there was a house plan that was designed so it could be a duplex or a single family home by adding or removing one wall. Both options actually exist in the plans for the house at all times (yes, XX still has the genetic code for male anatomy), the SRY gene isnât the plans to build male anatomy, thatâs stored elsewhere, the SRY gene is more like a text to the builder saying âgo with option Bâ. Except in this case the text failed to send, so the builder defaulted to option A.
So at the end of the day, the builder doesnât put the wall in and builds a single family home, not a duplex. The owner may have wanted a duplex, but that isnât what got built. So is it a duplex or not? I would lean towards saying no, but weâre not talking about houses, weâre talking about people, so it should probably just be their call
Good explanation.
I think youâre trying to oversimplify things a bit. Sexual differentiation is an extremely complex process. To be frank, a biological perspective doesnât really care about âwhatâs recorded on the government IDâ. As you get more and more granular, those kinds of generalizations become less useful.
For a pure science take, such an individual might be described as:
But that doesnât really fit on a driverâs license, soâŠ
Anatomically, they look female. They develop a uterus and vagina, but usually donât develop other secondary sex characteristics (breasts, widened pelvis, etc). The karyotype will show typical male XY chromosomes. Usually Iâve seen them classified as intersex because of this.
Where are you from, if I may ask? And do you know what is written into the ID?
Because in Germany there are current political developments to allow to change the sex in the ID. But I donât know to what extend.
Iâm in the US.
The sex of the baby will almost certainly be recorded as female. Keep in mind that while the karyotype might indicate XY, babies generally arenât karytotyped at birth, as thatâs a pointless expense for the overwhelming majority of people. The parents, doctors, and children wouldnât have any idea about their condition until:
Since only #3 is visible without a specific test, itâs usually the first indicator, and the other two tests are used as confirmations of the syndrome. Thatâs when supplemental hormone therapy and surgery are discussed as well.
If male and female are assigned purely based on physical anatomy, does it really matter?
No one in that personâs life would consider them male and doctors would treat them based on their sex characteristics - they may have testes but they wouldnât be external.
I have never been karyotyped and Iâm willing to bet most people havenât either; your sex is assumed based on your outward appearance even when your genitals are not observable.
I really donât think that having a Y chromosome makes you male when you literally have a vagina, you know? Especially when you could go your whole life without knowing.
Gender isnât sex. Their gender is whatâs in their brain, not whatâs in their pants. I thought this would be obvious by now but I guess not.
It is not obvious to me yet.
If gender is in the brain, why does it relate to sexual (physical) properties?
Or am I missing something?
Because so far I understood that for example the sex can be female, and so can the gender. But what sense does it make to have female gender? There is just a human in your head.
So to me it seems like gender is a belief. Because beliefs are also located in the brain.
But then again⊠how important is this belief? And why are people claiming that there are more than two genders? Because of gender refers to sex, then what is going on there?
Iâm gonna throw a common metaphor at you. See my previous post in here for a more thoughtful exposition on my gender experience.
Gender is kind of like shoes. If you have the right kind of shoe, well fitted, on the right feet, you donât think about your shoes much at all. You know you have a certain type or brand of shoes on, but itâs not an essential element of your daily life. Youâre not constantly aware of them. This parallels the common cisgender notion that the self isnât gendered, that âthere is a just a human in your head.â If your shoes are too small, on the wrong feet, or made wrong for your feet, itâs a whole problem all fucking day. Itâs uncomfortable and disorienting. Itâs distracting and persistent. Over time, it becomes painful, and you use increasing amounts of focus and energy dealing with your footwear incompatibility. This is what being gender incongruent is like. You spend huge amounts of time and energy trying to deal with a profound discomfort and incompatibility that nobody else understands or acknowledges because their shoes are fine.
Their are neurological and therefore psychological differences between people of different genders. These are normally aligned with their physical sex and hormones. When there is a misalignment between gender and sex thatâs what trans people are. Itâs not belief, itâs brain structure.
Do you not feel attached to your birth gender at all? Or any other gender? Like if you woke up in a body of the opposite sex would you be okay with that?
Statements like this sometimes make me thing the person I am talking to is either very ignorant or a very confused agender person.
But there are many nuances between people. It wouldnât make sense to try to distinguish between those nuances.
This is a rather bold statement. To my knowledge scientists have yet to understand how the brain works. And I believe studies to identify peoples brain structure as gay, trans or straight would be very questionable. And dangerous I should say. Depending on the governments, this would be very dangerous. Imagine what the Russians or Chinese would doâŠ
I donât think that I would care much. I guess I would be annoyed by menstruation. I really cannot see any blood, I become unconscious and fall over like a bad soldier. But other than that, I do believe that I could be happy in any kind of healthy body.
I am just confused. So much is going on in this world. And then suddenly people create new concepts that are still somewhat in the making, under constant change, concepts that I have nothing to do with, but I donât want to get out of touch. And I do understand that something is driving people, and usually people have good intentions (even people that are on the other side of a discussion). But I find this gender stuff to be difficult to understand. Especially the need to identify with something. For me happiness comes from another place. Not from a (and donât get me wrong, I donât want to offend) self centred perspective. I donât feel the need to identify who and what I am. I think one quickly falls into a mental trap there, because thinking and identity is something far too complex to articulate in language. Iâd rather just enjoy time with people that are important to me and do stuff that we enjoy.
You had me up to:
I donât understand what you mean here? Iâm sure biological sex and gender identity are considered separate ideas even in languages without a specific word for them. To my mind a lot of transphobia comes from people not understanding thereâs a difference between sex and gender.
As for the XXY, Iâm OP and thatâs my mistake. I misremembered my biology lessons and thought a second X chromosome made someone biological female, rather than the presence of an Y chromosome making someone male. I replied to someone else explaining my mistake.
Some people here in Germany claim so. These people use the English word âgenderâ, because German doesnât offer a specific word for that. But I donât understand why one has to differentiate. I donât think there is gender identity. Identity is the constitution of my character and my values. Feelings and emotions are not part of character, they are reactions to stimuli.
But thatâs barely comprehensible to me. How could it ever be, if my language does not offer this differentiation. The way we talk strongly affect the way we think. And I am not thinking in categories such as gender and sex. There is just gender (the last sentences sound weird. But I simply cannot translate it)
Alright. Nature is crazy.
We donât have a word for schadenfreude in English, but trust me, we still experience it.
What does that have to do with gender? Just because you think you donât care about gender, doesnât mean that society doesnât, or that gender doesnât care about you.
Sex: Biological and even then sometimes biology screws up
Gender: Social and sometimes people raised as one gender donât identify as being that gender
But why the word gender then?
Because if it only relates to the way someone was raised, then it is not connected to the sex. The role of a male or the role of a female are very different in other cultures. So gender becomes something extremely vague.
What if I identify my gender to be male? What does that even mean then? Is my gender then what European men are like? What kind of European man? Or a Muslim man? Maybe an ultra radical Indian man who would burn his wife?
The role of a man and a woman is usually a purely social construct. Why would I identify with such a construct? Itâs so vague. And what use does gender identity have? We humans use such terms usually to classify the properties of a human. But the gender term seems to be a bad classification standard. Classification must be something specific. But this gender term is not very specific.
This English stuff makes me go mad. It makes me go mad. Maybe for context: the German word âGeschlechtâ is also not the most precise. It means sex, but in the past it also meant something like old family, like the some old royal family. It is also used genealogically.
If I am a male and I am looking for a mate to make children, then I am not interested in the persons belief, what they believe to be, but their biological properties.
When does gender become relevant?
I have looked up gender studies. Gender studies started to analyse the cultural and social dynamics between the sexes. Also analysing the roles, male and females take in society according to their sex. But the term gender, does that not undermine those studies? Because how can you analyse those dynamics, if gender becomes a term so loose?
But why the word gender then?Because words have a meaning and you donât seem to understand the difference between sex and gender so I explained it to you in the simplest way possible. If you want to argue that gender doesnât exist then I can refer you to tons of videos from people much more knowledgeable than you and me on that subject.
Itâs funny that you say âGerman is a precise languageâ and youâre mad that in English thereâs a word to distinguish between two separate concepts⊠Are you somehow trying to argue that German is a superior language instead of admitting that maybe it doesnât cover every possibilities? Wait until you learn about Japanese and Mandarin with their words for abstract concepts!
Why would I identify with such a construct?You donât live in society?
If I am a male and I am looking for a mate to make children, then I am not interested in the persons belief, what they believe to be, but their biological properties.Oh so then you donât mind if your mate looks like him or do you think it might be relevant to speak about gender now that youâre thinking about forming a family with that person? This part of your text also makes you sound a lot like you believe in eugenics⊠Trying to pass your genes based on the how good the other people is biologically and nothing else⊠Iâll leave it at thatâŠ
I donât know where you found your definition of gender study but itâs exactly what it says, women study has been a thing for ages, nothing unusual about broadening that field to encompassate more than just women and it just so happens that some people donât fit in what is men or women gender expectations.
Youâre stuck on the fact that genders vary from place to place⊠As if everything else is the same no matter where you look in the world? A person raised male but identifying as female might have been two spirit (a gender older than the society you live in by the way) had they been raised in a traditional first Nation family, but thatâs not their reality and as such they make their situation make sense in the context they live in.
Just because your language doesnât have a word for it doesnât mean people donât experience it, it just means your language needs to evolve. If the word for depression doesnât exist in a language then do you think depression doesnât exist for the people who speak it?
Totally not me clicking your link entirely because I know thereâs gonna be a hot guy behind it >_>
They are talking about things like Androgen Insensitively Syndrome where XY people are born with female anatomy. This is because the chromosome dosenât determine gentials but rather the hormones that chromesome creates. In the case of Androgen Insensitivity the body dosenât respond to male hormones so develops female gentials despite having male chromesomes because female is the default. Weiredly enough though the gonads are still male.
Could also be refering to Swayer syndrome.
As an English speaker, trust me you donât wanna know. Donât dive into it
Well, since there is just one word in German for sex and gender, itâs the same thing here, some people try to use the English word gender (untranslated) here.
But I simply donât understand why this is needed. Itâs getting so mixed up and complicated, but at the same time it barely has any relevance. Because what does it add to society, dialogue or communication? German is a very precise language, and I donât understand why some people try to soften it up with the English term of gender. Itâs so weird.
Iâm pretty sure alot of people use it interchangeably to mean the same thing. But I think over the years, gender has become more of a âsocialâ word and Sex as more of a âbiologicalâ word. I say Gender instead of sex when talking about someoneâs biology. A bit confusing honestly for non-native English speakers
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Seems at odds with:
I caught that too but I think they just sort of lost track mid thought and switched it without realizing.
Yes, itâs confusing. I think I somewhat have an understanding of what the term âgenderâ refers to, it at the same time it is so untranscribable and somewhat extremely vague.
Why? Itâs the same thing as race.
No it cannot be.
Race is a biologically misleading term. There is just one human race alive on this planet and itâs called Homo sapiens sapiens.
What English speakers are referring to as race is actually ethnicity.
The genetic variations between humans from different continents is far too little to make out different races. There are no clear borders between one âraceâ to another.
You missed the point. Race is a social construct, as is gender
Yes, I understood you the first time, but what does social construct mean?
Another race, thatâs what humans deem too different from themselves to consider them equal. (Even though there are not enough genetic differences to qualify for an actual different race). But these differences are physical and not socially constructed.
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Gonna add this clarification up here for you: sex is xy or xx etc. Gender is wearing dresses and playing with barbie dolls, vs space ships and army toys.
Its pretty obvious xx has nothing to do with the color pink, and so sometimee xyâs prefer these societal structures, so they adopt them as their own.
Technically if an xy was risen as the female gender, they wouldnt even be transgender - their original structure was pink and shit, and so they never changed it. (There is argument that xx -> pink and xy -> army is aligned on the same âsideâ, so any deviation would be trans - but realistically theres only historical basis for this, nothing that would even make it to the hypothesis stage, much less official definition)
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Okay, this description was really funny, but gender is more complex and inherent and canât be totally reduced to the social aspects. I say that getting my hormones corrected âfixed meâ because, after years of antidepressants and anxiolytics and therapies, turning off testosterone is what finally alleviated a constant, lifelong feeling of something being inherently, unquenchably wrong. This was a feeling Iâd had all my life. Treating it psychologically never touched that feeling. Even as my depression and anxiety and truama responses improved, that feeling remained. Even social transition just made it easier to cope with. HRT turned it off. If you or anyone else reading this is familiar with the Dark Tower books, Iâve long made comparisons to Jakeâs split timeline. You know implicitly that you should be having a different emergent experience of life, of body, of puberty, but timeâs arrow neither slows nor reverses. Youâre stuck living in two timelines, and every step towards transition brings them closer to harmony, and at least for me, HRT totally collapsed them into a single life. This is the human experience that has the cultural mapor code of pink vs armies laid over it.
Itâs more complex because theyâre related, but not always.
Genetic sex is the basis for some epigenetic status, which causes some organs to develop more in this or that way, including structures in the brain, which in turn impact behavior, which tends to cause some social preferences.
But none of those steps is written in stone. While âusuallyâ and âif everything goes as expectedâ an XY and XX will develop following certain patterns all the way from genetics to social preferences, there are also a lot of cases where either one of the steps didnât go as expected: maybe it went the opposite way, or only worked partially, or not at all, or whatever else.
Itâs basically unpredictable, and the worst thing is to get stuck in a status where part of you says one thing, while another part says something else. HRT is just one way to change the part thatâs easiest to change in a particular case to keep things as close to harmonized as possible.
Tbh, this doesnât feel like a response to my post. All I was getting at is that gender is more complex and inherent than just social structures. There are social, psychological, and physiological aspects to gender. A lot of people reduce it to a social/cultural phenomenon, which inevitably leads someone to question the necessity of medical transition. Many trans people, myself included, will/would permanently struggle with chemical dysphoria our whole lives if we relegate the condition and its treatment to psychology and sociology. Thatâs all I wanted to say. To me, HRT is that science so advanced as to be indistinguishable from magic. Spironolactone was a revelation in me, and my first few estrogen injections were all but religious experiences.