Claim: Gender and Sex are a social construct.
Origins: Liberals, feminists, and social scientists.
Status: False.
The words “gender” and “sex” have been skewed by feminists with the common belief that human behavior (gender roles, sexual identity) are explained 100% by culture. This disregards biological (evolutionary, genetic) factors, despite evidence to counter their belief. Such fallacies are being implemented into universities today.
We do not have a gender, we have a sex: male or feminine.
Definitions:
Male: “Of, relating to, or designating the sex that has organs to produce spermatozoa for fertilizing ova.”
Female: “Of or denoting the sex that produces ova or bears young.”
Nouns have a gender.
– Masculine
– Feminine
– Indeterminate (When we don’t know whether its female or male from the word. The noun ‘cat’ could be either. Cats have a sex, not a gender.)
– Neuter
(Tables, cups, gadgets. Objects. Not male or female.)
Two sexes.
XXX, XXY, and XYY all occur. They are always equal to the same sex and are bodily deformations caused by chemical imbalances/underdeveloped genitals. These are deviations–mutations–not a new sex that we’re only just discovering.
XX and XY are by far the most commonly occurring chromosomes, it would be wise to assume that those are the standard and healthy chromosome variations. If you look at the process of meiosis, you’d see that XXY, XYY and the like can only be the result of a flaw in chromosome configuration.
If you’d call these genotypes ‘mural’, then you'd have to call people with Trisomy 21 healthy, too. After all, it occurs due to the same meiotic error that causes sexual chromosome diseases.
“Hermaphrodites exist:” True.
“There are more than two sexes, in fact, there are at least seven sexes acknowledged.” False.
“It’s possible to be something other than what your anatomy implies.” False.
Genetic mutations/defects can occur in prenatal development. This is not justification for classing these as newly discovered sexes.
“What if someone’s body doesn’t start producing hormones when they reach puberty?”
“What about people who have both sets of reproductive organs in whole or part?”
A genetic male yet fully functioning female exists in such a small minority that it is a medical anomaly. 99% of XY women never reach puberty and can never reproduce. People with 46,XY DSD require HRT to go through normal puberty. Their anatomy is also abnormal (they tend to be taller than average women). Fertile XX men do not exist at all.
If someone is mentally female and physically male, this is due to an endocrine disorder, again, not a justification for classing them as a sex on their own.
Take the brain that occurs the most and you will intuitively see that almost the entirety of the human species can be divided into a female brain and a male brain, almost all humans with a male brain possess XY chromosomes, while almost all of the female brains possess XX chromosomes. The point is that during embryonic development, male infants receive a gigantic surge of testosterone. If one or several receptors are not working properly, then certain brain parts remain in the default (female) status that they were in, rather than developing into male parts.
Biological factors–including genes, prenatal hormones, and brain structure–are well studied in determining a human sexual orientation. Gender roles and sexual identity are not explained by culture. Sexual orientation is also susceptible to environmental factors: males who have alleles that lead to poor expression of testosterone or are poisoned with chemicals like BPA are far more likely to adopt homosexual/bisexual lifestyles. Soy is high in antiandrogens, and bisphenol A, phthalates, pesticides and herbicides, triclosan and triclocarban, and the added estrogen burden of the water from birth control and HRT also contribute.
The picture to the left shows the typical brain differences between men and women (regardless of sexual preference). This supports the theory that gender is not a social construct at all, but rather a biological one, determined at (more precisely, before) birth. This merely acknowledges well studied, biological, genetic effects in prenatal development, whatever part such factors play. They have an influence in the development of a person.