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Based on definition of a woman. Title nine is based on gender not sex. Same with “gender neutral” bathrooms. What the hell are you talking about? It’s not “sex neutral” bathrooms. So the definition of a woman is most important. Too bad Jackson, you or JackOfNoTrades cannot define it.Based on sex, not gender
Based on definition of a woman. Title nine is based on gender not sex. Same with “gender neutral” bathrooms. What the hell are you talking about? It’s not “sex neutral” bathrooms. So the definition of a woman is most important. Too bad Jackson, you or JackOfNoTrades cannot define it.
Being neuter might make you less of a man, but you are still a man. Science XX, v XY.In literature there are 3 genders...masculine, feminine, neuter.
In the societal construct of gender there are lots of genders.
In science there are 2 sexes male and female. There is also intersex which some people classify as a third sex but which is really a combination of both, for example someone born with both ovarian and testicular tissues.
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Being neuter might make you less of a man, but you are still a man. Science XX, v XY.
Fat chance of that happening.Which we need to get away from as it leads to the things you listed.
being neutered doesn’t change ones gender....my cat is still a Tom cat, even with his balls cut off. Having part of their body cut off doesn't change their biological make up....it might keep them from reproducing, it will impact their hormones but doesn't change their basic biological make up.neuter is a gender term, not a sex one. Do try and keep up.
Gender is a literary term, thus the three genders.
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being neutered doesn’t change ones gender....my cat is still a Tom cat, even with his balls cut off. Having part of their body cut off doesn't change their biological make up....it might keep them from reproducing, it will impact their hormones but doesn't change their basic biological make up.
either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones.
WHO FUCKING CARES.especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones.
I posted the definition, jackasscoppespo'nd, v.i. Be in harmony (with, to) ; be similar, analogous,
It's not a nice place. You should reconsider your life. Things are accelerating.Ob look, more mass hysteria from a Trumptard.
Never gets old does it, mouth breather?
Yea, yea I know. I'm going to hell.
Gender is a word used in literature...sure.It is not about being neutered.
In literature nouns have a gender...male, female and neuter.
You keep conflating sex and gender, but they are not the same thing.
This is not really complicated.
Sex is of science and gender is of literature.
There is a reason you do not find gender in science books.
Gender is a word used in literature...sure.
I just simply provided the Webster defination of the noun gender....sex can be used in literature too.
Face it....you are digging yourself deeper and deeper and further away from the point that you made that was debunked.
Gender is a word used in literature...sure.
I just simply provided the Webster defination of the noun gender....sex can be used in literature too.
Face it....you are digging yourself deeper and deeper and further away from the point that you made that was debunked.
I found a Webster's, and provided you how it's defined there. So you know...there you goAll I am doing is laughing at you all that seem to lack any sort of education.
Try this, if you wish to debunk me find a Science textbook that deals with gender.
yeah man, I provided the link already.too funny
Definition of gender
(Entry 1 of 2)
1a: a subclass within a grammatical class (such as noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb) of a language that is partly arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics (such as shape, social rank, manner of existence, or sex) and that determines agreement with and selection of other words or grammatical forms
b: membership of a word or a grammatical form in such a subclass
c: an inflectional form (see INFLECTION sense 2a) showing membership in such a subclass
2a: SEX sense 1athe feminine gender
b: the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex
c: GENDER IDENTITYThose seeking state driver's licenses in Massachusetts are closer to being able to designate their gender as "X" instead of "male" or "female." The state Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would allow for the nonbinary designation on licenses.— Steve LeBlancFacebook's message was clear when the social media network added new gender options for users on Thursday: the company is sensitive to a wide spectrum of gender identity and wants users to feel accommodated no matter where they see themselves on that spectrum.— Katy Steinmetz
gender
verb
gendered; gendering\ ˈjen-d(ə-)riŋ \
Definition of gender (Entry 2 of 2)
: ENGENDER
Are gender and sex the same? Usage GuideMore Example SentencesPhrases Containing genderLearn More About gender
Are gender and sex the same? Usage Guide
Noun
The words sex and gender have a long and intertwined history. In the 15th century gender expanded from its use as a term for a grammatical subclass to join sex in referring to either of the two primary biological forms of a species, a meaning sex has had since the 14th century; phrases like "the male sex" and "the female gender" are both grounded in uses established for more than five centuries. In the 20th century sex and gender each acquired new uses. Sex developed its "sexual intercourse" meaning in the early part of the century (now its more common meaning), and a few decades later gender gained a meaning referring to the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex, as in "gender roles." Later in the century, gender also came to have application in two closely related compound terms: gender identity refers to a person's internal sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male nor female; gender expression refers to the physical and behavioral manifestations of one's gender identity. By the end of the century gender by itself was being used as a synonym of gender identity.
Among those who study gender and sexuality, a clear delineation between sex and gender is typically prescribed, with sex as the preferred term for biological forms, and gender limited to its meanings involving behavioral, cultural, and psychological traits. In this dichotomy, the terms male and female relate only to biological forms (sex), while the terms masculine/masculinity, feminine/femininity, woman/girl, and man/boy relate only to psychological and sociocultural traits (gender). This delineation also tends to be observed in technical and medical contexts, with the term sex referring to biological forms in such phrases as sex hormones, sex organs, and biological sex. But in nonmedical and nontechnical contexts, there is no clear delineation, and the status of the words remains complicated. Often when comparisons explicitly between male and female people are made, we see the term gender employed, with that term dominating in such collocations as gender differences, gender gap, gender equality, gender bias, and gender relations. It is likely that gender is applied in such contexts because of its psychological and sociocultural meanings, the word's duality making it dually useful. The fact remains that it is often applied in such cases against the prescribed use.
Usage of sex and gender is by no means settled. For example, while discrimination was far more often paired with sex from the 1960s through the 20th century and into the 21st, the phrase gender discrimination has been steadily increasing in use since the 1980s and is on track to become the dominant collocation. Currently both terms are sometimes employed with their intended synonymy made explicit: sex/gender discrimination, gender (sex) discrimination.
Examples of gender in a Sentence
Noun Please state your name, birth date, and gender. The adjective and noun must agree in number and gender. Some languages do not use genders.
Recent Examples on the Web: NounThe five digital pieces that sold for $2,162,500 depict his coming-of-age story and his struggle with gender transition.— Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2022The airline also regulated other aspects of dress, like hairstyle, makeup and jewelry, based on workers' assumed gender.— Zoe Sottile, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022The Republican worked instead to defend his signatures on bills that bar transgender girls and women from playing on girls high school and women's college sports teams and barring gender affirming surgery for anyone under age 18.— Bob Christie, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022See More
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Phrases Containing gender
gender bender
gender confirmation surgery
gender dysphoria
gender expression
gender fluid
gender identity
gender identity disorder
gender-neutral
gender nonconforming
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First Known Use of gender
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined above
History and Etymology for gender
Noun
Middle English gendre, from Anglo-French genre, gendre, from Latin gener-, genus birth, race, kind, gender — more at KIN
Verb
Middle English gendren, from Anglo-French gendrer, from Latin generare — more at GENERATE
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Terry Prothero
16 January, 2022
I was curious what the official dictionary definition of the word was. Typically, that's what I will go by. But this is one case where I'm going to use the original definition of the word instead. As noted, this isn't a settled issue. The reason being that the change in definition was political...See more
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9 September, 2021
Gender is a word that describes if your male or female which is man or woman and boy or girl.
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15 December, 2021
with all this controvercy reguarding transgender people i wanted to double check that my definiton of gender and sex were accurate. It was, so, concerning the controvercy I thought with most things labled Male or Female it was sex- not gender. that created the need for the seperation of male and fe...See more
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Terry Prothero
16 January, 2022
Originally, sex referred to the reproductive act and to gender. Whether someone was male or female. The term gender was used in scientific papers this way to distinguish it from the reproductive act. Then in more recent years there was an effort to change the definition to include socially relat...See more
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gender
noun
gen·der | \ ˈjen-dər \
Kids Definition of gender
: the state of being male or female : SEX
gender
noun
gen·der | \ ˈjen-dər \
Medical Definition of gender
1: SEX sense 1a
2: the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex
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gen·der
/ˈjendər/
noun
- 1.either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female:"a condition that affects people of both genders"
- 2.(in languages such as Latin, Greek, Russian, and German) each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, common, neuter) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections that they have and require in words syntactically associated with them. Grammatical gender is only very loosely associated with natural distinctions of sex.
But you failed to fully comprehended it.yeah man, I provided the link already.
"either of the TWO sexes...right there...thanks
Then how do you explain Lia Thomas? And you completely disregarded my other points. Again if Jackson won’t define a woman then how can we even interpret Title 9?Title IX is based on sex, not gender...
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
This is crazy. We are playing semantics games over something simple. Women are women and men are men. Period. End of story. Enough of this Bs of “I feel like a woman”. How the hell would you know since you’re not oneBut you failed to fully comprehended it.
