Originally posted by Scribble
I don't understand, this study (presented from a biased source) just proves that there are two primary sexes, which has always been the case (not including hermaphrodites, who have the primary sex of one 'gender' and the sexual reproductive organs of the other/or they have both, for example).Gender is still a social construction in the way that it's presented in modern culture. For example, I don't think there's any studies that definitively prove that boys like blue and girls like pink. That's an example of gender being a social construction. If we weren't so draconian about what people were allowed to like/do/dress in (particularly in the past), there would probably be far less people who identify as transgender, because our society would be freer to express itself without weird social barriers and boundaries that make little to no sense (for example, dresses actual work better for men, since they don't squish the ballsack like a lot of trousers do).
As for people who just don't feel comfortable in their sex's skin? I'm not them, so I don't judge them. They're not hurting anybody by changing their biological sex (most of which is done by hormone therapy and not actual surgery), so why should I care? Because nature didn't say we could change our biological sex? Well, guess what, nature said we couldn't cure cancer, but we're still going ahead with that.
Interesting, what do you think about the recent controversy with Bill Nye? In his new show he talks about gender fluidity, that there are more than 2 genders, etc.
Turns out on his other show in the 90s there was an episode where they talk about how gender is determined by chromosomes. Bill Nye doesn't specifically say this, some female assistant says it.
The controversy comes over the fact that Netflix didn't only have Nye's new show on, but it also had select episodes of his own show from the 90s...and one of them was that episode I just described. Anyways, once this was pointed out the episode was removed from Netflix. It was then re-uploaded, but the segment in question had been edited out.
IMO this sounds like preferring feelings over facts.