The definitions changed over time, and are mostly connected to the evolution of western society. I will just use the most common definitions used these days.
Sex: the set of anatomical and biological traits that relate to sexual and reproductive function. Think: type and shape of external/internal genitals, development of mammary tissue, levels of certain hormones, and so. They vary a lot between individuals, but you can put people in three rough buckets. 49% are what you call male, 49% what you call female, and 2% is intersex. Intersex has a lot of variability, but so do the other buckets, so sometimes those are not quite as useful as they seem.
Gender: the belonging to a socially-defined category that describes your positioning, feeling, and inner experience with sexual identity. If this sounds super vague, it’s because these categories are vague. Most of us grew up at a time when the only two categories we talked about openly were men and women, but it hasn’t been like that throughout history. Now we are giving recognition to the fact that people’s inner experiences don’t fit those categories, and they probably never did. Non-binary means that your experience doesn’t fit these two categories. Trans means that you were assigned in one category but actually belong in another.
Sex and gender are often conflated because the same two buckets that are used for sex are also used to categorize people in society. While you might be tempted to believe it’s always been like this, it’s actually a pretty modern construction. People giving a fuck about social categories of gender was rare before the 20th century.
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Stoner710Guru
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Old definition nothing middle definition gender is psychological sex is biological new definition nothing
there trying to say gender and sexual are the same thing. The old definition used the world gender because sex was considered a vague word to use so they used gender.
then around the 1970s they tried telling us the gender was physiological and sex was physically. (The idea that’s a man could psychologically be a women but is biologically a man and we would use there biological pronouns because that’s proper English,
now there trying to mix the two again and say there is no difference between biological and psychological. If a man thinks he is a women then he is a women, Doesn’t matter if he has a penis unable to give birth and if he gets his dick cut off it’s a vagina not a gapping wound like the way the body treats the fake vagina. So now we run into the stupidity of men can give birth and women can get men pregnant. This is obviously all biased in psychology not biology.
this needs to stop, The reality is it’s a mental illness that needs treatment either through counseling or some try of drug, similar to what bipolar people take or schizophrenics. This doesn’t me would should beat transgenders or do any harm to then it means we can not except the idea that women can get men pregnant and men can give birth, but at the same with men can get a women pregnant and women can give birth language doesn’t work like that on a functioning society we have definitions for a reason and frankly definitions shouldn’t change ever
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ushagomezMaster
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We can enjoy an orgasm from having sex but have to endure an endless debate about gender.
@Razor8 Like cultural differences. Though for myself I hate that there are gender roles that people identify by, they exist and many feel much better being able to understand themselves through those social " norms"
Razor8
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Not to be rude. That doesn't make sense.
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OddBeMe
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There is a societal element to one of these terms. Or both. They’re synonyms.
Livewire3
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They really aren't. Many people mistakenly use them this way. But your sex is based on external and internal physiological differences at birth, male female, hormones etc. Very scientific identified. While gender is used to identify characteristics, or role that is characterized by societal (social) differences.
Livewire3
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So a person can be 'born male' (sex) but identify as female (gender).
Ad_Quid_OratorGuru
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Sex is whether you fit the biological definition of male versus female (you have organs that produce egg or sperm) which is NOT based on chromosomes because it applies to other animals that don't even have sex determined by what chromosomes that they have (the sex of a sea turtle is determined by what temperature the eggs are incubated at).
Gender is behavioral sexual dimorphism.
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LegendaryIconYoda
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What's an action, one's an identity politik
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EnglishEuropeanYoda
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Sex is something you do. Gender is what you are.
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msc545Master
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None really.
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Anonymous
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Nothing, or at least there didn't used to be. But today they term "gender" has been turned into a meaningless joke, with a list of more than 100 "genders".
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Anonymous
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No difference. Sex and gender are connected and go hand in hand.
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Anonymous
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I believe it's supposed to go something like this:
"Sex" is biological and "Gender" is basically the behavioral characteristics of males and females. Sometimes it's a blend of the two. I was OK with this reasoning for a little while.
Apparently, this distinction has been perverted by the very people that propose it. When you say there's a difference, but then in the same breath you say it's OK for biological males that identify as "female" to enter certain female spaces, what you're revealing to us is that you believe there ISN'T a difference.
"Transwomen ARE women," I hear them say.
So now we're stuck between a rock and a hard place, because on one hand, we want to be "inclusive," but on the other hand, we're doing it at the expense of another group. (Women)
Now we're too scared sh*tless to say anything, for fear of being called transphobic.
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