- Gender is a classification of humans and is not as complicated as it is fashionable to pretend.
- There is no morality involved in applying a classification.
- There are only two sexes and only two corresponding genders. Male (men) and female (women).
- (Neither race nor gender are “social constructs”. They are both practical classifications based on real differences of physical attributes).
- It is only women who can get pregnant though not all women do.
- It is only women who can produce unfertilized eggs though not all do.
- It is only men who can produce sperm though not all do.
- Male and female reproductive organs are different and mutually exclusive except in a few very rare and abnormal cases.
- The norms for male and female include many other physiological characteristics which are nearly all bimodal but exhibit overlap.
- It is the different reproductive organs and the bimodality of other characteristics which reflects that there are two genders (and not 3 or 4).
- You cannot be a male woman or a female man.
- You can be a masculine woman (a manly woman) or a feminine man (womanly man).
- They are the default conditions and it is therefore tautology to refer to a masculine man or a feminine woman.
- Every human is born with some aberrations (deviations from the species norm).
- There are many possible aberrations. Deviations can be very serious or may be quite minor.
- Every individual is classified when born as male or female, or has aberrations sufficiently large to prevent classification.
- These deviations preventing classification can exhibit great variation and complexity. Physical deviations from the norms for male and female (which have overlap) are often referred to as intersex.
- One reliable estimate is that the prevalence of intersex is about 0.018% (18 per 100,000).
- Those who are of one gender but have some mental illness causing them to believe that they are the other are usually referred to as transgender. Physical deviations may also cause mental illness.
She/her/hers applies to all women.
He/him/his applies to all men.
They/them/theirs apply to groups irrespective of gender.
It/them/theirs applies – usually – to things without gender.
When it is used with humans it is usually pejorative.
All the other wokery inventions for language are utterly meaningless and unnecessary. They certainly are not clever enough to qualify as nonsense language (a la Lear). They are just the meaningless juxtaposition of letters.
Ze/hir/hirs.
Xe/xem/xyrs.
Ver/vir/vis.
Te/tem/ter.
E/em/eirs.
Good grief!!!!
The complexity lies in the kinds of deviations that occur. But gender classification really is not that complicated.
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