Brittany Normandy Aquitaine wrote:I could link a bunch of ben shapiro here but I won't, I will throw my opinion out here quickly.
gender and sex are the same thing, and if you are born male, you are male, born female, you are female, you cannot switch, you cannot be both, you cannot be something entirely different, and I want someone here to try to convince me otherwise
(if i don't respond it is cause i probably forgot i posted here considering I do that a lot)
Gender and sex are not the same concept. Sex is the biological classification one has. While it is technically true that humans have two sexes with different gametes that are involved in reproduction, itnalso true that there individuals whomnon a biological level do not fit neatly into male or female sexes, from a biological point. Individuals with male genitalia whom have xy chromosomes, chimeras, etc do all exist. That said, typically there is a male and female dichotomy.
Gender is a concept that refers to how sex is expressed and defined in a given society. While gender typically aligns with expected biological sex, this does nkt mean that sex and gender are the same. Rather, Gender is the social expectations involved with a person's sex.
The reason why the latter was developed has nothing to do with some sort of nefarious SJW-ness. Rather, it developed in psychology and anthropology to discuss the rather complicated nature that sex and culture have with one another, and how different individuals and cultures express sex in a cultural context.
More to the point, Sex is the biological portion, Gender is studying how biology and culture interact.