• very smart Idiot@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yes, it’s confusing. I think I somewhat have an understanding of what the term “gender” refers to, it at the same time it is so untranscribable and somewhat extremely vague.

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        1 year ago

        No it cannot be.

        Race is a biologically misleading term. There is just one human race alive on this planet and it’s called Homo sapiens sapiens.

        What English speakers are referring to as race is actually ethnicity.

        The genetic variations between humans from different continents is far too little to make out different races. There are no clear borders between one “race” to another.

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            1 year ago

            Yes, I understood you the first time, but what does social construct mean?

            Another race, that’s what humans deem too different from themselves to consider them equal. (Even though there are not enough genetic differences to qualify for an actual different race). But these differences are physical and not socially constructed.

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              1 year ago

              Neurological differences between men and women aren’t socially constructed any more than racial characteristics are. You should read up on the neurology of trans and cis people.

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                1 year ago

                Alright. I get what trans people are. Those are people that attempt to transition their physical features from their born sex to the opposite sex.

                But what do you mean with cis people? Do you mean normal, or generic, or average?

                I only know the terms cis and trans primarily from chemistry, even though those are old nomenclature.

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                  Alright. I get what trans people are. Those are people that attempt to transition their physical features from their born sex to the opposite sex.

                  No. It’s people whose gender doesn’t match their sex. Has nothing to do with transitioning

                  Cis is the opposite of trans