Difference between revisions of "Gender identity"
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* '''gender''' refers to ''all'' attributes which are commonly thought of as "masculine" or "feminine" traits. This technically includes "sex", so you might define "sex" as "one's physical/genetic/biological gender". However, even leaving out "sex", there are many separate aspects to "gender". Again, these aspects are highly correlated in most people -- but not in everyone. | * '''gender''' refers to ''all'' attributes which are commonly thought of as "masculine" or "feminine" traits. This technically includes "sex", so you might define "sex" as "one's physical/genetic/biological gender". However, even leaving out "sex", there are many separate aspects to "gender". Again, these aspects are highly correlated in most people -- but not in everyone. | ||
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The next thing you need to understand is that '''there are many attributes, both physical and behavioral, which make up what we call "gender"'''. (In other words, gender is not "either-or", or even a "spectrum", but a ''multidimensional continuum''.[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/opinion/sunday/the-tangle-of-the-sexes.html?hp&_r=0]) These attributes may tend to [ | The next thing you need to understand is that '''there are many attributes, both physical and behavioral, which make up what we call "gender"'''. (In other words, gender is not "either-or", or even a "spectrum", but a ''multidimensional continuum''.[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/opinion/sunday/the-tangle-of-the-sexes.html?hp&_r=0]) These attributes may tend to [[issuepedia:similarity cluster|cluster]] into two groups which we call "male" and "female", but these convenient labels are inadequate to describe the true situation for many people. [http://invisiblelad.tumblr.com/post/42340034458/study-debunks-notion-that-men-and-women-are] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21788238] | ||
Some gender attributes: | Some gender attributes: | ||