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Is a hermaphrodite a third gender or just a combination of two?
If you mix yellow and red you get orange.
"Yellow" and "red" are primary colors. One could say that "male" and "female" are primary genders.
The mixture of yellow and red created a new entity which we decided to give a separate name ("orange"). So, if we don't have a separate name for the mixture of male and female it's probably time we started using one.
You are trying to avoid giving a known and factual biological condition an actual name because, for whatever reason, it doesn't suit your fancy.
Reactionaries like you would object to the creation of the word "orange" because it disturbs the purity of having names just for primary colors.
Anatomy at birth may prompt a check in the “male” or “female” box on the birth certificate — but to doctors and scientists, sex and gender aren’t always the same thing.
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Sex typically refers to anatomy while “gender goes beyond biology,” says Dr. Jason Rafferty, a pediatrician and child psychiatrist at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Rhode Island, and lead author of the AAP’s transgender policy.
Gender identity is more an inner sense of being male, female or somewhere in between — regardless of physical anatomy, he explained. It may be influenced by genetics and other factors, but it’s more about the brain than the sex organs.
And transgender is a term accepted across science and medical groups to mean people whose gender identity doesn’t match what Rafferty calls their “sex assigned at birth.”
There's also X, XXY, etc. And genetic sex, phenotypic sex, and gender can be different things.
And down syndrome is caused by an extra chromosome on the 21st pair. Chromosomal abnormalities, also known as congenital anomalies, also known as birth defects do not define us as a species. Sex and gender are one and the same.
And down syndrome is caused by an extra chromosome on the 21st pair. Chromosomal abnormalities, also known as congenital anomalies, also known as birth defects do not define us as a species. Sex and gender are one and the same.
I do believe there are two genders at birth. Or even after conception....
Certainly you are aware that evolution is due to "defects" - otherwise called "mutations".
Using the word "mutation" when speaking in a very general sense may be better for that reason.
Examples - if ADHD or Dyslexia or even certain Autism spectrum conditions are found to be genetic mutations, it just may be that many of these mutations advance the human condition (Bill Gates, Musks Brother and MANY well known innovators and others are "mutated")....
In a theoretical sense, we may have already "evolved" to be mutated in that it's factual that we are less fertile (industrial man). It may be that we become infertile due to population pressures.
Of course you and I won't be around to see that.
We can state that, looking backwards, there are two genders. Period. And the lottery is a losing proposition. Doesn't mean that some people don't win. And I have no doubt some people are born in ways that are harder to define.
But, by and large - in layman's terms - there are obviously two genders. As much as many guys wish they were equipped both ways and able to use them.......it ain't really happening yet.
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I've noticed that supposedly "straight" people who are SO focused on being anti gay and anti trans with their biblical definitions from 2,000 years ago when they thought the earth was flat - usually are closeted gays or secretely desire to be women. And how many preachers, pastors, teachers and politicians does this include? Lost count long ago.
Like the OP and that T-310 guy, how many anti trans threads have you posted in? Is there something you wish to get off your chest and tell us? It's ok, you're safe from ridicule here.
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