@CardinalLolzy
Not trying to derail the thread, as I've asked this elsewhere. Just wanted to know what Plan thought as they specifically said that woman was a gender.
I mean “woman” is gender and not sex because of how we as humans largely identify who is a woman and who is a man based on appearances, mannerisms and so on. We instantly look at a person and our brain decides is this a man or a woman?
This is why “passing” is so important for transwomen. They adopt all the appearances and mannerisms of womanliness and these are all literally rooted in gender. Gender stereotypes, expectations, affectations, and some even surgically altering their bodies. It’s for themselves because they feel that it represents who they are, their real place in society. So if everyone around you automatically sees you as a woman and treats you as one, then to my mind, that is moving through society as a woman.
I know the old dictionary definition of “woman” is “adult female”. But those definitions were before we even had words to define differences in gender....when gender and sex were societally expected to match. When the words gender and sex were 100% interchangeable. And anyone that was “gender nonconforming” was ostracised and persecuted.
Now we are more aware and accepting that some females want to live as men and some males want to live as women, and they have the right to do so and be included, not ostracised. (Not saying any posters have said trans should be, just reiterating how things are more tolerant today than even in recent past).
I know too there are hundreds of different genders but really they are just different names for different combinations of feminine and masculine characteristics, which are all stereotypes anyway. I would rather abolish all that type of gender stuff as it is divisive.
Gender sums up to are you perceived by the humans around you as a man or a woman? This can be changed.
Sex is the biology, the DNA. This cannot be changed.