Sex doesn't imply gender

posted by [personal profile] auralsex at 03:03pm on 2009-07-05
Talking about biology as though it assigns gender is problematic, though. It implies that genitals=gender, which is obviously not the case. Saying that cisgender folks' gender "matches" their sexual phenotype is really just used as a justification for cissexism (because transgender folks' gender "doesn't match"), and it's false to boot: biological sex is gender-neutral. We still have only gendered terms to talk about sexual characteristics, which is unfortunate and perpetuates the idea of "matching."

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