It's political feminist elitism to distinguish between women as a sex and women as a gender, between physically female and socially feminine.
Unfortunately, you have to look real hard to find people who know the difference between sex and gender, and even harder to find people who know what either of those words actually means. Perhaps that is because, when you look closely, neither of them has a solid, definitive meaning.
Political feminism is a control fetish, but it can be gotten around by simply stepping outside their game, which is the game of sex and gender labels.
You may want to look up Morgane Oger, the woman who is behind a human rights case in British Columbia that seeks to have sex removed from birth certificates. Her reasoning for this is compelling. Basically she says that birth certificates are expected to be 100% accurate, but sex on a birth certificate cannot be accurate because it is unverified information. To which i would add that no one has yet found a definition of sex that covers everyone. It is largely a constructed category.
At the very least sex is a spectrum, a range, and not a binary situation. Just as everyone's body makes both testosterone and estrogen, so too in the womb there are many possible E/T combinations at various times throughout fetal development, many possibilities for tissue sensitivity to these hormones, and many possibilities for the hormonal (maternal) environment in which the fetus is enveloped. There is also a range of possible genetic combinations too, not all of which are strictly male or female. That is without counting the possibility of a mixed karyotype.
No one can convince me that sex is a binary when there are so many possibilities. Just as we need to get beyond identifying people by so-called race, we also need to stop categorizing people by all physical features. Doing so is inherently discrimnatory, and i think that's primarily why people do it. Because, at a practical level, there is very little need to know what's between someone's legs.
I realize that many transgender folk have fought hard to get their gender marker changed, so there's a lot invested and it's hard to then step outside the gender box entirely and just be who you are. But i think this is where things are headed and we should get ready for it. The current generation of kids are breaking the gender binary in a big way. And, to get back to the topic, this is a huge monkey wrench in the works of political feminism. They have no way to deal with things outside the sex and gender boxes. Without these labels they become powerless. Yay!
I'd like to add that i think, eventually, the whole system of sex and gender is going to fall apart because these concepts have no clear definitions, are conflated and are easily confused. I noticed lately that government agencies in Canada are saying that gender is shown on (their) documents as "sex". Now how is that for clarity. In Ontario, for example, you can apply to have your gender changed, and what they do is change the sex code. They consider them different but the same. Great fun...
The answer i like best if someone asks what my sex or gender is (although no one has ever asked that) would be something like this : Sex is a category. Gender is a category. I'm not a category. I'm an individual. What is it you want to know about me?
Unfortunately, you have to look real hard to find people who know the difference between sex and gender, and even harder to find people who know what either of those words actually means. Perhaps that is because, when you look closely, neither of them has a solid, definitive meaning.
Political feminism is a control fetish, but it can be gotten around by simply stepping outside their game, which is the game of sex and gender labels.
You may want to look up Morgane Oger, the woman who is behind a human rights case in British Columbia that seeks to have sex removed from birth certificates. Her reasoning for this is compelling. Basically she says that birth certificates are expected to be 100% accurate, but sex on a birth certificate cannot be accurate because it is unverified information. To which i would add that no one has yet found a definition of sex that covers everyone. It is largely a constructed category.
At the very least sex is a spectrum, a range, and not a binary situation. Just as everyone's body makes both testosterone and estrogen, so too in the womb there are many possible E/T combinations at various times throughout fetal development, many possibilities for tissue sensitivity to these hormones, and many possibilities for the hormonal (maternal) environment in which the fetus is enveloped. There is also a range of possible genetic combinations too, not all of which are strictly male or female. That is without counting the possibility of a mixed karyotype.
No one can convince me that sex is a binary when there are so many possibilities. Just as we need to get beyond identifying people by so-called race, we also need to stop categorizing people by all physical features. Doing so is inherently discrimnatory, and i think that's primarily why people do it. Because, at a practical level, there is very little need to know what's between someone's legs.
I realize that many transgender folk have fought hard to get their gender marker changed, so there's a lot invested and it's hard to then step outside the gender box entirely and just be who you are. But i think this is where things are headed and we should get ready for it. The current generation of kids are breaking the gender binary in a big way. And, to get back to the topic, this is a huge monkey wrench in the works of political feminism. They have no way to deal with things outside the sex and gender boxes. Without these labels they become powerless. Yay!
I'd like to add that i think, eventually, the whole system of sex and gender is going to fall apart because these concepts have no clear definitions, are conflated and are easily confused. I noticed lately that government agencies in Canada are saying that gender is shown on (their) documents as "sex". Now how is that for clarity. In Ontario, for example, you can apply to have your gender changed, and what they do is change the sex code. They consider them different but the same. Great fun...
The answer i like best if someone asks what my sex or gender is (although no one has ever asked that) would be something like this : Sex is a category. Gender is a category. I'm not a category. I'm an individual. What is it you want to know about me?