Do you believe gender is biological, a social construct or a bit of both?

[Anonymous]

Male and females have different hormones. Hormones can affect people’s emotions. Emotions can affect people’s personality traits.

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+1 y

The exact causes of gender dysphoria are not entirely understood, but several factors may play a role. Genetics, hormonal influences during prenatal development, and environmental factors may be involved.

www.verywellmind.com/gender-dysphoria-5085081

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It’s believed hormones which is apart of biology can affect a person’s gender identity.
Gender Dysphoria can occur when a female inside the womb receives too much testosterone.
GD can also occur when a biological male didn’t receive enough testosterone in the womb.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../

[SPIRIT208]

its 100% biological.

its not natural to be 'trans' or 'gay' its literally a paradox upon itself.

Most of the US is athiest today (sad to see as a christian) but regardless, that also means that the majority of people believe in evolution.

Evolution is said to be one of the most natural things existing, after all, isn't that how we believe we came from? Through the supposed millions of years of natural selection, we should be programed genetically to have intercourse with the opposite gender.

In recent years (in relation to the millions of years life has existed) we humans have switched instinct to no longer survive, but thrive. Humans have gotten weaker over time, more lazy, and dependant on technological advancements.

There are two questions that come to mind through looking at this: Why do some humans feel attracted to the same sex or wish to become the other sex? And, why don't human children not know how to have intercourse from birth as instinct?

The answers to the both are the following: We no longer have those instincts. But why? It couldn't possibly be to simplify our code, because somehow in a few thousand years we can naturally undo millions of years of natural selection. Nor is it that we didn't need it, because how can a newborn know that being born with an instinct isn't necessary.

The entire Thing is off, how can one believe in obe thing, while also believe against it? it doesn't work like that. You either believe in Evolution or that you are gay or trans. If not evolution, then what? (imma get religious now) God created us to have choice, whether it was to follow him or not. If you agree with being created with choice, why not thank God for what he has done, and as you go down that path, you'll stray further and further from the story of the world and the gay and trans thing will all sound ridiculous to you.

In summary, Gender has been contourted recently to be different from sex, but for millenia, they have been the same thing. Its ridiculous to change it now.

I do not intend to hate on anyone through this, I love u all, saved or not. Im only sharing my own thoughts.

PM me if u wanna learn more about the religion stuff :)

[Miristheiss]

A man is born a man and woman is born a woman.

Anyone who is a man but says he feels like he should be a woman or vice versa has a MENTAL DISORDER.

A nation of fools would try and change biology, science, truth, the rules for men and women to CODDLE these people with mental disorders.

You people falling for this cult and these lies are fools.

You people supporting giving life altering drugs to 13 year old... letting men play on the women's sports teams... etc, you are FOOLS and promoting EVIL on society.

[Asker]

Hormones can affect emotions. Emotions are feelings. If a person born a boy feels he is a girl then that is gender dyshpria. I read online gender dysphria is possibly caused by a hormone imbalance

[Stacey55666]

It's 100% biological. San Francisco had grant money to help homeless trans people. If you were homeless living on the sidewalk but weren't trans, you didn't get anything.

I read the application that the trans people had to fill out.

You could choose between 97 gender identities. But when it came to biological gender, the form only had two options.

That was a couple years ago so now I think there are like 200 gender identities.

Along with transgender, there is also trans species and trans age.

[Anonymous]

Maybe a bit of both biological and social but gender dysphoria is a mental illness or disorder.
Also most people in the world are cis-gender

[RoοstеrBrеаst]

One gender doesn't exist without the other. The whole purpose of one is to compliment the other. As @limabean2k23 commanded to the admins, to find true freedom you can all start by falling on your knees and calling him "master". For there is no freedom without slavery... And so the reason sockets exist is to plug plugs into them. The sperm exists only to fertilize the egg. What do you call an adapter that allows you to plug two audio jacks into it? A female to female adapter. Female is the hole. There is gender in electronics.

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[stepyo99]

What I think trips a lot of people up is when they hear "social construct" they therefore think it's arbitrary or not real or unnecessary. Traffic laws are a social construct.

Gender is biological and a social construct and both are interrelated with each other. Biology produces men and women, large groups of men and women produce a society, the society's culture influences how men and women reproduce and raise offspring, which affects biology.

There's the obvious biological reality of xx and xy chromosomes along with other genetic factors that produce the different male and female genitals, physical structures, brains, and psyche.

Then there's the social construction of femininity and masculinity that can and does change from culture to culture and from generation to generation. Where modernist thinking goes wrong is here. They think that because it's a social creation then that means you can't make a value judgement of gender roles or that it's bad for a culture to enforce its gender norms.

I think you don't have to look any further than the absolute state that modern men and women find themselves in with declining birth rates, happiness, and strife to see that social constructions are a necessary part of the fabric of human society.

[EricSummer]

It is a bit of both.

Yesterday, I saw a little girl clutching a model of a ferocious meat-eating dinosaur in her little hands. I liked that, but it made me wonder how unusual it still is. As a parent, many people exercise a lot of pressure for their kids to conform to gender stereotypes even if they are not aware.

[Berethor]

Gender is biological for the most part, men and women naturally acting different, it's a fact.

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Damsel_in_Distress

[jshm2]

Depends how you want to define gender and sex.

I believe I am an attack helicopter... using the same bullshit logic as these trans clowns.

Sure there are hermaphrodites, dysmorphias and much in between. But what this "queer" shit has descended into, is that you can be a bullshitter, getting back at your peers or parents, it doesn't matter. You demand "rights" like everyone else, and protection from consequences too.

[slatyb]

I believe that "gender" is a word. These days it most often refers to a social construct. What's real? Genetics and anatomy.

"Girls show..." Most do, not all. And it doesn't matter what most do, because we generally deal with on person at a time.

Most women do not play chess. So what? I would still lose badly to many women who do play.

[Anonymous]

Gender is supposed to just be another word for sex as in the sex of an individual. The stereotypes attribued to both genders are socially constructed but sex and gender aren't something you can "abolish" or "deconstruct". You can't change it, it is immuable and no we aren't to be compared to some frog or some other animal. People are just making up definitions for already defined words to make their bs make sense.

[Anonymous]

Gender is a complex subject and can be difficult to define.

Some people believe that gender is biological and determined by chromosomes and hormones, while others believe that it is a social and cultural construct.

There are also those who believe that gender is a bit of both.

[Asker]

Which do you believe?
It’s biological, social construct or a bit of both?

[DaveJord]

Dude, if you have penis at birth, you are a man, if you have a vagnia at birth you are woman. Whatever you do to yourself, thereafter, does not change your biology... you can manipulation it, but you cannot change it.

[DaveJord]

To the update... sorry I have dated too many over baring single working mothers that have gay or trans children... to believe transgender has anything to do with genes or biological factors... its all mental.

And study that's suggests otherwise us all chicken before the egg bullshit. If you did not think it you would believe it... but how do stop thinking about something you believe?

For the millennia of human existence this hasn't been a social issue. So what's has changed in last 20 to 40 years that's made this such a main steam issue?

Single mothers raising children with a man. Without a positive male influence in their lives. So boys associate too closely to mom, or they are controlled and dominated by mom... which makes them not want to be with women, or makes them wish they were women. Because no single mother can be a positive male role model or parental male influence.

Nothing to do with genes or the I was born this way argument l.

[PrincessBunBuns]

Gender is a social construct (i. e, what we perceive it to be). Sex is biological. It’s used interchangeably, but the definitions are clear.

[PrincessBunBuns]

Yes I will answer questions, no I will not argue with whoever replies lol

[artgorgeous]

Do you believe apples and oranges are fruits or square-shaped?

[Asker]

My eyes don’t view them as square-shaped

[artgorgeous]

Your eyes dont view them as square shaped... What makes you then think they are fruits? Maybe it's a social construct so that must be also vegetables. Maybe oranges identify themselves as vegetables, how do you know those are fruits?

[Asker]

I do not think they are fruit. I know they are fruits. Because it’s a fact they are fruits.

[artgorgeous]

This is how you reject a reality.

[artgorgeous]

I mean the initial question about social construct vs biological. I would even exclude word gender and prefer using only sex.

[Asker]

I don’t see how I’m rejecting reality.
I said oranges and apples are fruits.
I provided screenshots and links about how gender identity and characteristics can be biological because of hormones differences between male and female.
Also gender dysophria only affects a very small population of people. It’s a mental illness
encyclopedia.pub/.../29606

Most people aren’t transgender

[artgorgeous]

No you didn't get my point. My point is that there shouldn't be existing word gender. Because they use this word to distort the reality and confuse people about their role in a society

[Asker]

It’s annoying many people seeing transgender women enter women’s sports competitions. Even Caitlyn Jenner says “it’s not fair”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhaUa3tSyvc

[artgorgeous]

I agree. It's not fair. And at the same time I don't see any feminists who scream about equality but at the same time ignore this problem.

[Kayla45]

Biological by nature? Sure.

Biological by how people wish to be addressed? No.

[abc3643]

It is biological.

It manifests during brain development.

[Jessikkaaa]

Gender is a social construct so that is the reason why we have to ask the children in school about what they identity as.

[_piotr]

It's mixture of both, but mostly biological.

[love_conquers_lust]

Both. Biological base, socially reinforced.

[Danny_dan92]

It’s biological

[gorydetails]

biological.