Genders?

[Alex K]

There are only two genders. Some people fluctuate between the two, identify as a different gender than their sex and/or are a little more or less one of the other. We fall on a spectrum of those two genders, but there are only two genders.

Pick a gender, any gender!

I identify as a field effect transistor, and I feel suppressed by this sheet.

[Crossless2.0]

I identify as a field effect transistor, and I feel suppressed by this sheet.

There must be a support group near you.

I'm a step-down transformer myself. Unsurprisingly, my group has 12 steps.

[Bob Kelso]

Fuck wiki. Fuck it up the arse with a blunt instrument.

The only thing that matters is how people feel. And that it's none of anyone's business to tell them how they should feel.

*my emphasis*

Fuck me that's a dangerous sentiment. 

I mean, by all means feel and do what you want -barring hurting others- but let's not devolve into feels over reals shall we?

[Longhorn]

Fuck wiki. Fuck it up the arse with a blunt instrument.

The only thing that matters is how people feel. And that it's none of anyone's business to tell them how they should feel.

*my emphasis*

Fuck me that's a dangerous sentiment. 

I mean, by all means feel and do what you want -barring hurting others- but let's not devolve into feels over reals shall we?

While I do agree with the sentiment of wikipedia being unreliable, how people feel does not negate facts. And in that specific instant, Wikipedia would be correct: a person with XXX chromosomes would be a biological female (and 99.7% of the time she would identify as such) and a person with XXY or XYY chromosomes would be a biological male and also almost certainly identify as one. And afaik sex chromosome trisomy isn't very serious symptom wise.

While I appreciate the idea of breaking gender stereotypes and questioning gender roles, a gender identity does not a gender make. To say that there are more than two genders is simply put unscientific. No one can be neither gender. Our physiology and behaviors are influenced by it severely, on multiple levels as a result of evolution. They can 'not identify' with either gender - and that is all fine by me.

[Edwardo Piet]

I agree that a gender identity doesn't make a gender. But often times when people who gender-identify a certain way say 'gender' it's just shorthand for 'gender identity'.

[The Grand Nudger]

Fuck wiki. Fuck it up the arse with a blunt instrument.

The only thing that matters is how people feel. And that it's none of anyone's business to tell them how they should feel.

*my emphasis*

Fuck me that's a dangerous sentiment. 

I mean, by all means feel and do what you want -barring hurting others- but let's not devolve into feels over reals shall we?

Gender identity -is- a feels, for reals.  What's the problem?

[ukatheist]

*my emphasis*

Fuck me that's a dangerous sentiment. 

I mean, by all means feel and do what you want -barring hurting others- but let's not devolve into feels over reals shall we?

While I do agree with the sentiment of wikipedia being unreliable, how people feel does not negate facts. And in that specific instant, Wikipedia would be correct: a person with XXX chromosomes would be a biological female (and 99.7% of the time she would identify as such) and a person with XXY or XYY chromosomes would be a biological male and also almost certainly identify as one. And afaik sex chromosome trisomy isn't very serious symptom wise.

While I appreciate the idea of breaking gender stereotypes and questioning gender roles, a gender identity does not a gender make. To say that there are more than two genders is simply put unscientific. No one can be neither gender. Our physiology and behaviors are influenced by it severely, on multiple levels as a result of evolution. They can 'not identify' with either gender - and that is all fine by me.

Agreed, people might find this interesting (ignore the fact its from the daily fail, I have read his book and the article is factual if not a little sensationalist).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/articl...overy.html

[Faith No More]

You guys are going to get a visit from the gender terrorist.

[Bob Kelso]

*my emphasis*

Fuck me that's a dangerous sentiment. 

I mean, by all means feel and do what you want -barring hurting others- but let's not devolve into feels over reals shall we?

Gender identity -is- a feels, for reals.  What's the problem?

See Vic's post, he worded it quite nicely. 

For an example on the lunacy of feels over reals look at FNM's video. I mean, don't get me wrong, be respectful to folks if they deserve it by all means, but this nonsense on "No one is born a girl, we are assigned genders at birth..." and going on to talk about how doctors doing their job and saying "it's a boy/girl" (something that turns out to be right for like, what, 99.7% of the population was it?) is an act of violence. Christ on a fucking cracker. Get real.