Sex and Gender 

“How many genders are there?” Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past couple of years, you've probably heard this question or one like it. Not only do we see new laws on the books, but we also see a whole new culture rising from the confusion this question and other questions about sex and gender create.

Despite what people claim about genders, there are only two sexes. Of course, there are a few certain genetic conditions that exist within a gray area, but well over 99 percent of the entire human population has been divided into male or female categories. Please note none of these things here are value judgments. No one sex is better than the other.

Gender is heavily related to sex, of which there are only two of. One observation is that people who claim to be bisexual or nonbinary (claiming that the gender of man or woman does not fit how they feel) describe their fashion habits as being irregular, therefore they are neither. If there is an infinite number of genders how bigoted are bisexual people who flip-flop only between the masculine and the feminine? This is what I call the “ghost in the shell phenomenon”. You have only lived in one body, one brain. Your perception that you are not a man while being male, or that you are not a woman while being female cannot be proven correct. You have never experienced anything else so no matter what you think, you cannot make conclusions that you have been “born wrong”. The DSM 5 labels this persistent thought pattern as gender dysphoria.

Inherent traits are not changed by clothing. Much of this attention to gender has been caused by the ignominious Dr. John Money and his statistically scanty and suicide-inducing study performed on twin boys, Brain and David, David having a surgical mishap shortly after his birth. The study socially transitioned David as a girl. He never psychologically recovered. Brian overdosed at the age of 36, and David took his life at the age of 38. Understanding sex and gender has deep consequences, it is important to be accurate on these issues.

There are two sexes, and they are different. They have different genetic makeups, which lead to varying bone structures, hormone levels, organs, psychological traits, and predispositions. For example, men usually have a notch on the back of their skull called the occipital protuberance. Scientists aren't sure what it does, but forensic anthropologists use it to determine the sex of skeletal remains. Also, if a pelvis is found, by looking through the pelvis to the lower spinal bones (the sacrum and coccyx) the shape that is produced will also tell you the sex of those remains. Men have a heart-shaped pelvic angle because their coccyx curves anteriorly to a great degree. Women do not have this feature because if they did, during childbirth, the baby's skull will be grazed by the coccyx as it is born. These differences in bone structure show there is a difference between men and women. Some of these features are related to social responsibilities. Men are more likely to have color blindness, which helps detect movement in thickly vegetated areas, which is crucial to hunting. All these differences are not merely biological. Men and women also have different temperaments on average. Agreeableness is the most prominent. Men and women by and large are equal in agreeableness. Like all other aspects, that is because males and females are human. Males tend to be less agreeable, and the 100 least agreeable people are men, usually in prison. Neuroticism is also enhanced in women, and the gap widens at puberty.

The sexes have vastly different aggression strategies. More to come on that.

Gender stereotypes do have a preference basis. The toy industry has been trying to make a gender-neutral toy for decades and failed, now they are attempting it again. Boys and girls, express extreme prejudice against toys that do not pertain to their gender, even before culture has made its mark. Also, this study showed that women prefer reddish-pink hues more than men, probably because of women’s history of being gatherers. Does this mean that women today are somehow limiting themselves with their own choices?

Conclusion: Not all men check the box on what they perceive masculinity to be. Not all women do the same for femininity. That is OK. There is a misunderstanding in today's world that if a man is not stereotypically a man in every way, he is somehow less of one, but this is not true. The same goes for women. Our identity is not what we make it, it is part of us from the start.

Further reading/ watching:

This study on Personality:

Weisberg YJ, Deyoung CG, Hirsh JB. Gender Differences in Personality across the Ten Aspects of the Big Five. Front Psychol. 2011 Aug 1;2:178. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00178. PMID: 21866227; PMCID: PMC3149680.

This study about color preference:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098220701559X

and a youtube video for your convenience about the topic by Misha Petrov:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nODosFVnkCI




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