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can some one explain this to me
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/06/21/well-that-escalated-quickly
seems there are a good deal of people whom this made sense to who care a great deal about this here.
can one of you take the time to explain to me what this is about, my normal abilities to research this stuff seem to have failed me.
wth is cis?
seems there are a good deal of people whom this made sense to who care a great deal about this here.
can one of you take the time to explain to me what this is about, my normal abilities to research this stuff seem to have failed me.
wth is cis?
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So someone born with a penis and testes, who identifies as a male. Or someone with a vagina and ovaries that identifies as a female.
An important note is that sex and gender are different things
Sex is the biological aspect, gender is the social construct
So it is very possible to be a 'girl' or a 'boy' trapped inside the wrong body
Cis is when there is no contradiction within a person
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(I am relatively uninformed, so I apologize if there are subtleties I'm missing.)
Edit: clarity
that seems precarious.
"Gender" and "Sex" are not the same thing.
Your "actual gender" is whatever it is you identify as
Sometimes it is different than the biological sex you are born as
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By "actual gender" you are referring to sex. That is your biology. Gender identity is in the mind.
Your gender is whatever you identify as.
It may not match up with your biological sex organs.
What you are calling "actual gender" is you Sex: the biological organs you are born with.
But Gender is what you identify yourself as. They are not the same.
okay so, why was saying "women have vagina's" bigoted?
Because Biological males who identify themselves as female are also Women.
A trans female, someone born as a male but who identifies as female (someone correct me if I am screwing this up please) would be referred to as a woman. Therefore that statement would be inaccurate. It's subtle.
Because 'Woman' is a label used to identify gender
And since gender is a social construct
"all women have vaginas" is a demonstrably false statement, and is thus a sweeping generalization bred out of being misinformed, or willfully ignorant
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They are not the same.
And this is where Gabe/Mike got people pissed at him, because he was claiming that "if you have a vagina, you are a woman, and if you're a woman, you must have a vagina."
This, for many people, is simply not true, because sex and gender are independent of each other, and just because you are born with a vagina doesn't necessarily mean that you fit in with society's definition of the "female" gender.
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if having a vagina is not a property of female, then what is female? it can't be relative.
"female" is the terminology that applies to the sex of a person. "woman" is a gender label. someone might identify as a woman without being biologically female
I was about to ask this question because I wasn't too sure of myself.
They are transgendered because their gender identity does not match their sex, correct
However you seem to be confusing terms
Someone born as a bilogical female can still identify as a male
Gender is in the mindscape, sex is the physical biology
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i am a native speaker. i am just confused as the conceptual differences that have been drawn between the concepts, since there apparently is one and i can't work it out on my own.
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Try this
(from here)
is gender binary?
what defines one gender or another if not biology?
geth, close the thread.