Transgender vets now have a VA clinic

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(11-12-2015, 12:43 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Gender is learned?  I never learned my gender and I doubt anyone else here has had to learn their gender.    

Of course please feel to let us know how it felt for you when you were going between man and woman as you learned your gender and figured out you were Patrick or Patricia.   Did you try both out?  Make a pro/con list?

I admit it can get confusing as we tend to use short hand when talking about these things and its easy to confuse the real definitions vs what we "mean" or what we "think" a word means.  I am certainly guilty of this as well.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/232363.php

Quote:The words sex and gender are commonly used interchangeably, but many linguists would argue that their usage is quite distinct. Sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics, while gender refers to behaviors, roles, expectations, and activities in society.

Sex refers to male or female, while gender refers to masculine or feminine.
The differences in the sexes do not vary throughout the world, but differences in gender do.
Here are some examples of characteristics related to sex:

• Females have a vagina, males do not
• Males have a penis, females do not
• Male newborns tend to weigh more than female newborns
• Females can breastfeed their babies, males cannot
• Males have deeper voices than females
• Females can get pregnant, males cannot
• Males have testicles and females have ovaries
  

Here are some examples of characteristics related to gender:

• Women tend to do more of the housework than their spouses do
• A higher percentage of US doctors are women, compared to Egypt
• Nursing is often seen as a woman's job, although many men enter the profession
• In some countries women have to cover their heads when they go outside the house
• 120 years ago women were not allowed to vote in elections.
  

Another way of putting it is:

Sex refers to a natural or biological feature.
Gender refers to cultural or learned significance of sex.

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