If I were mutilated, as you suggested, I would still carry male genes, contain a male physiology, have a male bone structure and muscle structure, be regulated by male hormones, and process information with a male brain. I would still consider myself to be male because every single cell in my body would still be male.

Oh, thanks for clarification!

When you separate gender from sex, how do you then define gender? Is it just a feeling? If so, how do you define which feelings should belong to which gender? Is it just about dressing up and conforming to certain stereotypes?

There is no continuum for normal development. Klinefleter syndrome is just that, a syndrome. It’s also more rare than you suggest. We can talk about abnormal development all you want, but the entire point of this article was that gender as a continuum is a idea that should be applied to normal development and that’s…

I also said “...excepting certain rare cases with are not considered to be normal development”. Plus, we aren’t really talking about intersex people, are we?

You are touching on something very fundamental. There has to be a basic recognition that men and woman are absolutely different. They are different physically, anatomically, physiologically and biologically. Beyond that, they even experience and process information differently, are regulated by different hormones and…

I agree, it is a neurological condition. The problem is that feeling like a woman and being a woman really are two different things, no matter how much empathy we want to have. I think we do more harm in allowing someone to pretend like they are something they physically, biologically cannot be rather than help them…

There is a conundrum there. If gender is not related to biology, than what is it? A thought? A feeling? And where do we get the idea that certain thoughts and feelings must be associated to a certain gender? Stereotypes. I believe (my opinion) it is impossible to embrace the idea of transgenderism without also…

In most cases it does mean being sterile and in all cases it isn’t considered normal human development. Additionally, having some mixture of male and female anatomy or hybrid anatomy is extremely rare.

I disagree and I think the overwhelming evidence points to the fact that nature operates in binary dichotomies. They are fundamentally important. To confuse experimental behavior with species saving imperatives would be a mistake, I think.

Layn,

I think your analysis is somewhat disingenuous. There is no continuum when it comes to biological/anatomical dichotomy or even more fundamentally when it comes to chromosomes. These traits are irrefutable and definite (excepting certain rare cases which are not considered to be normal development). Now, among men and…