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0 pointsdelichon4mo ago0 comments

You can't, but since gender isn't defined by anything physical, there's no need.

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bigstrat20034mo ago

That is only true if you're using an extremely idiosyncratic definition of gender. As far as 95% of English speakers are concerned, gender is defined by the body you possess.

defrost4mo ago

As far as nigh on 100% of Bugis speakers are concerned there has always been five genders and they'll tell you the words in their language they have for them.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buginese_language

It appears to be a cultural construct.

EnergyAmy4mo ago

You and the other person are probably talking past each other. For most people, "gender" is merely the polite way of saying "sex", and that's probably what the other commenter was referring to.

Gender in the sense of "the social roles and norms on top of biological sex" is indeed a construct, though heavily informed by the biology that they're based on. Biological sex is very much real and not a construct.

defrost4mo ago

Of course biological sex is real and strongly bimodal with outliers, who ever said otherwise?

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Terr_4mo ago

Does that mean hundreds of years of English-speakers referring to sailing ship as "she" were all part of a conspiracy to hide that ships have jiggly bits? :p

pezezin4mo ago

Wait until you find gendered languages (like most languages in Europe) and realize that grammatical gender usually doesn't have anything to do with biological sex :P

lovich4mo ago

The only real states of matter are solids, liquids, and gases. Everything else is just woke lunacy.

I am confident in this fact because I learned it in elementary school decades ago and it is impossible for humanity to discover new information that updates our world model. Every English speaker knows that “plasmas” and “Bose-Eisenstein condensates” are made up.

brigandish4mo ago

We all await your Nobel for finding a third type of gamete.

lovich4mo ago

The person I was responding to was talking about gender, but if you want to talk about biology then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex#Prevalence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXYY_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXY_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXYY_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXXY_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisomy_X

I assume you will be one of the advocates for my nobel prize

edit: I'm sorry you specifically mentioned gametes, we can talk about diploids and haploids if you wish and how our bodies are such complicated machines that any sort of error that can occur in our growth is guaranteed to at scale

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bigstrat20034mo ago

That is only true if you're using an extremely idiosyncratic definition of gender. As far as 95% of English speakers are concerned, gender is defined by the body you possess.

defrost4mo ago

As far as nigh on 100% of Bugis speakers are concerned there has always been five genders and they'll tell you the words in their language they have for them.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buginese_language

It appears to be a cultural construct.

EnergyAmy4mo ago

You and the other person are probably talking past each other. For most people, "gender" is merely the polite way of saying "sex", and that's probably what the other commenter was referring to.

defrost4mo ago

Of course biological sex is real and strongly bimodal with outliers, who ever said otherwise?

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Terr_4mo ago

Does that mean hundreds of years of English-speakers referring to sailing ship as "she" were all part of a conspiracy to hide that ships have jiggly bits? :p

pezezin4mo ago

Wait until you find gendered languages (like most languages in Europe) and realize that grammatical gender usually doesn't have anything to do with biological sex :P

lovich4mo ago

The only real states of matter are solids, liquids, and gases. Everything else is just woke lunacy.

brigandish4mo ago

We all await your Nobel for finding a third type of gamete.

lovich4mo ago

The person I was responding to was talking about gender, but if you want to talk about biology then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex#Prevalence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXYY_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXY_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXYY_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXXY_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisomy_X

I assume you will be one of the advocates for my nobel prize

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