What is Gender?

[Qwark]

Jaicee said:

Qwark said:
A collection of stereotypes of male and female behaviour. Which happens to be for 99% accurate. Since less than 1% of US is population does identify with the gender they are born with.

I don't know about that. There's a heavy age skew to that data, with younger people being significantly more likely to identify themselves as trans in some way. There's also an interesting skew in terms of sex. Apparently 73% of trans-identified people overall are biologically male, while about 70% of trans-identified youth are biologically female, and more specifically would otherwise identify themselves as bisexual or lesbian in terms of orientation. These types of statistical skews hint at the superficiality of gender identity as a concept in my mind, and at minimum merit further scientific investigation, I believe.

Bottom line: I think the popularization of transgender politics of late is mainly owed to social media, that it is a growing trend that will increasingly affect public policy going forward, and that more and more people are going to identify themselves in these sorts of ways as this trend continues. Don't bet on that statistic remaining the same for long.

The amount of trans people will increase I simply doubt if will ever surpass the 2% limit. In which case we can actually call it common. Although its interesting that young trans people are mostly lesbian or bisexual female. (Which is about as non relevant as your genitals when it comes to gender).

If gender is the sort of speak societal man identity and the societal woman identity than those are continually evolving. So it could also happen that the definition of the male and female identity are becomer bigger so more people fit into them.

If you where gay 60 years ago a big part of society would not consider you a man. Today you can be gay (of queer or whatever) and still be considered male.

The same could happen for many females who don't think they are typically femine/women-like. Women in general are way more open minded when it comes to sex anyways. Doesn't make then less of a woman though. So perhaps of that gets more acceptance more females will identify as woman again. Or there will be a lot more transgenders from this point onwards.