(October 26, 2009 at 4:42 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: I am not talking about identity, but of the fact of physically of whether they are of male or female gender. Whether they are male or female. What they identify themselves to being is not the same as what they actually are, which is my point. If it were then whenever someone thought of themselves as the opposite sex they'd physically change genes!
EvF
Sex = male/female and all sorts of little things like trans and inersex. Gender = an amazing blender
Actually... considering that the brain is the most important sexual organ in the body: their gender identity (aka neurological sex, as some put it) takes precedence over their physical sex. Gender and sex are not interchangeable... as one is biological and the other is all in one's head (literal)
So what a person identifies themself as is of paramount importance in 'what they actually are'. In other words, the person you saw as a girl, actually is a guy "in a girl's body"
You can't change the genes with our current technological level... although many of them probably wish they could
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
