(December 5, 2022 at 5:02 pm)Lek Wrote: One last comment on this subject. If I can be who I am and identify as whatever gender I feel I am, it reduces gender totally to an opinion. It destroys any solid concept of gender. I've tried and tried to get someone to give a solid definition of gender and all I got was "whatever you think it is". My opinion is to be who you are and be proud of that, but don't try to change the meaning of gender in the process. We can end up with all kinds of destructive consequences such as that giant college swimmer we see posing next to those female swimmers. I feel sorry for those women.
More a convention, or construct, if you will..than an opinion. We may know whether we feel like boys or like girls - I know I do, but we don't actually determine - by our opinions or even by facts, what constitutes a given gender in whatever culture we're born into.
It's easy to remember. Sex is objective. Gender is relative. Identity is subjective.
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