Re:The Brain Is Hardwired to Snap
by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @12:28PM
(#11074316)
> Gender is social and genetic. Pretending it's exclusively one or the other is foolishly reductionist, no matter which side you're on.
Gender (both ascribed gender and gender identity, though the two are distinct but related) is social but references, in different ways, biological sex; biological sex is phenotype, and as such a mixture of genetic and environmental (but not at all social, except to the extent that the elements of phenotype that are defined to be "sex" are, like all definitions, a social construct.)
Gender (both ascribed gender and gender identity, though the two are distinct but related) is social but references, in different ways, biological sex; biological sex is phenotype, and as such a mixture of genetic and environmental (but not at all social, except to the extent that the elements of phenotype that are defined to be "sex" are, like all definitions, a social construct.)