Gender vs. ... Se...x
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Ooo. Let's argue about that one! ;D
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okay... if you are talking about transgender people the difference is very important (transgender=identifies with gender opposite one's sex. So someone with a male sex might identify with a female gender and that person is called a trans woman).
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For what it's worth, in market research we never have a "sex" question, but we almost always have a "gender" question, with the options being male and female. Also, this question in my company is always an observation question, meaning the interviewers never ask it, they just mark male or female.
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I hate it when people leave drawers open. It fills me with rage.Defy V wrote:Another one of my pet peeves is dried toothpaste on the toothpaste container.Defy V wrote:One of my small pet peeves is people who say they'll find out the gender of the baby at the ultrasound rather than the sex.
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I just wanted to say that I'm with Fred on this one. I used gender interchangeably out of ignorance, and mainly because I thought it was more clear because it only meant type of person and not type of person and something people do. I think it was less confusing. I guess now I will take these definitions into account, but I honestly never knew there was a difference.
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I'm obviously late to this one, but a few thoughts:
- You can be neither male nor female. There are more intersex people than people who are both with Downs Syndrome, or at least that's what I keep hearing at conferences.
- Gender is definitely not a binary. "Masculine" and "feminine" are good starting points, but there is a whole category of other commonly referred to as "third gender." And, of course, it's all a continuum, and gender can also be very fluid.
- Even at BYU I had to take a whole class on the differences between sex and gender. The two are most definitely not the same thing, and I twitch when I see or hear them used interchangeably.
- Transgender people don't necessarily identify as the gender that is traditionally thought to be opposite their sex. Transgender is an umbrella term for a whole lot of different gender identities such as transsexual, genderqueer, bigender, and genderf***. For example, I know (well, I've met, and I read the blog [http://www.humancomplaints.com/] of) a transman who has been undergoing testosterone treatments for years and who had top surgery in order to stop the dysphoria involved with a brain that expected his body to have a penis, but he still identifies as genderqueer.
- You can be neither male nor female. There are more intersex people than people who are both with Downs Syndrome, or at least that's what I keep hearing at conferences.
- Gender is definitely not a binary. "Masculine" and "feminine" are good starting points, but there is a whole category of other commonly referred to as "third gender." And, of course, it's all a continuum, and gender can also be very fluid.
- Even at BYU I had to take a whole class on the differences between sex and gender. The two are most definitely not the same thing, and I twitch when I see or hear them used interchangeably.
- Transgender people don't necessarily identify as the gender that is traditionally thought to be opposite their sex. Transgender is an umbrella term for a whole lot of different gender identities such as transsexual, genderqueer, bigender, and genderf***. For example, I know (well, I've met, and I read the blog [http://www.humancomplaints.com/] of) a transman who has been undergoing testosterone treatments for years and who had top surgery in order to stop the dysphoria involved with a brain that expected his body to have a penis, but he still identifies as genderqueer.
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^^ Definitely agree that neither is a binary, but I was a bit scared to even go there. Glad that you did, though!
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Aww, thanks, imogen. I super love you, too.