Debates are everywhere: Are sex and gender innate? Is sex natural and gender social? Is gender the result of sex? But, scientifically, both sex and gender are mosaics, so why are we so obsessed? asks Daphna Joel
Are sex and gender natural? To my mind, a much more interesting question is: why do we care? But first, let me say a few words about the original question.
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Veronica 7 December 2020
This is seriously stretching a few interesting point about hormonal fluctuations - sure, testosterone other sex hormones can go up and down. This does not change ones DNA - sex is still ultimately a binary. Clearly this author is politically motivated by her dream of a genderless society. One can agree with that without pretending that binary sex doesn't exist. Making arguments that ignore obvious biology is not going to help this cause.
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