Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-25814498-20171201212431

GTK Olivemeister. Read the second to last line of the second paragraph and tell me what it says, because I've repeated it three times at this point and you still don't understand. I also elaborated on it further in the response as well, but at this point, the only way you'll realise that I don't think sex and gender are synonymous is if you say it yourself.

Age is a concrete thing. Age is determined by how long you've been in this world. Species is a concrete thing. Species is determined by genotype. Sex is a concrete thing. Sex is determined by chromosomes, genitalia and gamete production. Do you know why gender emerged as a word? In order to differentiate self-identified sex from biological-sex. So why can't the same thing be said about the other two, then?! Because you're not just saying that Gender and Sex are completely different, you're saying that gender, self-identified sex, should be the baseline by how we treat different people in society. So why can't the same thing be said about the other two, then!? Why shouldn't self-identified species or age be used as the baseline by how we treat people? Are you confused because I'm not using a different word in order to differentiate the two concepts? Are you ignoring me on purpose? Are you just missing out whole paragraphs on accident? Do you not understand the problem here? Do you not see the problem with placing self-identity before biology?

I don't care if social sciences and academia agree with you; unless you or either of them can justify your arguments, you're all wrong. It doesn't matter how many people agree with the argument; all that matters is the argument itself. Are you going to call this absurd? Does this debase my whole argument? Then tell me how. Don't just leave the discussion and pretend like you've won.

I do care about this! You're just not reading what I'm saying, and when you've ignored 90 percent of what I've said and misinterpreted and responded to the other 10, you just take the moral high ground and walk out the door. Well? Are you going to do the same here?

And about the different gender-identities throughout history; I didn't ignore it:

"Gender is not a social construct, it is a biological fact, and viewing it as anything other than this leads to the problems present in the next paragraph". That is me addressing your point. If different cultures throughout history has rejected biology in favour of self-identification, they face the same problems which you do today.