03-04-2021, 09:46 PM
(03-04-2021, 09:17 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Male and female aren't labels, they're terms used to represent sex.
When you say a dog or cat is male or female, are you attempting to label who they really are on the inside?
If people want to use gender to differ from sex (were basically synonymous until very recently) then that's a conversation to be had. I see nothing wrong with people choosing to dress, act, or identify anyway they would like. Nor do I think anyone should go out of their way to not respect their ability to do so.
But there is nothing wrong with others (in conversation, not in the face of a trans person) using sex (not gender) for their own opinion of what actually constitutes being a male or female, or a man or a woman.
The terms male and female are descriptive labels [or classifications if you wish] that you are given at birth based on the genitals you were born with. The terms are a factual descriptions of the physical aspect of your anatomy at birth. Nothing more, nothing less.
Those terms do nothing to tell us anything about you, who you are or who you will become. They only tell us what sexual organ you were born with. For me, the difference between the terms is rather simple: sex is a descriptive classification you are given at birth, gender is the descriptive representation of who you are in actuality.
It doesn't seem to me to be nearly as difficult as some -- on all sides -- attempt to make it.
