| TallSilhouette said: Jesus Christ, people. Stop confusing sex with gender. Gender 1. Either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior. 2. A similar category of human beings that is outside the male/female binary classification and is based on the individual's personal awareness or identity. Sex is physical, gender is cultural. A person can be physically born as one sex but feel and identify as the other. It's hardly any more of a choice for them than their sexuality is (you don't still think homosexuality is a choice, do you?). |
Gender is dependent on our sex, our sex is not dependent on our gender. We are a biological species only, and we develop sociological behaviours as a result of our biology. These behaviours are not made consciously but through processes in our bodies through our entire life. When we are asked at the hospital what gender our newborn child is, we give the physical answer, which in biology is referred to as our "sex".
If a person later in life decides to have a social gender that is different from their sex, that is that persons choice. But being a young individual, their brains have not developed enough to know consequences of their choices and what their identity is. For parents in that case to not making the decision for the child that they find the most appropriate, is lazy and irresponsible.
