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==Overview==
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While the traditional view holds that there are exactly two genders (male and female), there is gradually coming to be general recognition that gender is a multidimensional concept (e.g. physical form, personality aspects, sexual preference) in which there are two loci where most people's gender traits tend to cluster (i.e. "female" and "male") but that this is not true for everyone.
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==About==
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[[Gender]] is a [[similarity cluster]] or [[conceptual model]] used to simplify explanations of a number of biological phenomena. As these phenomena underlie a great deal of biology is often taken as being themselves fundamental to how biology operates, but this view (known as [[gender essentialism]]) is mistaken.
  
Some ideologies, however, still cling to traditional or [[doctrine|doctrinally]]-defined understandings of these terms, and use those definitions as an excuse to revile those who do not fit them (e.g. [[anti-gay]]).
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(For a solid introduction to the science around gender, see {{l/htyp|gender/101}} on HTYP.)
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==Terminology==
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The word [[sex]] is (somewhat confusingly) often used as a synonym for [[gender]].
 
===Related Pages===
 
===Related Pages===
 
* [[gender disparity]]
 
* [[gender disparity]]
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* [[gender equality]]
 
* [[gender equality]]
 
* [[homosexuality]]
 
* [[homosexuality]]
* [[transsexuality]]
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* [[transgenderness]]
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==Links==
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===Reference===
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* {{wikipedia}}
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* {{conservapedia}} as of 2017-08-23 redirects to "Sex" and affirms the [[gender essentialism]] position: "Sex is the attribute of being either male or female..."
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** The same article defines "gender" as "what society expects of persons of different sexes", affirming the [[gender fundamentalist]] position.
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* {{rationalwiki}}
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* {{htyp|gender}}

Latest revision as of 20:54, 25 August 2020

About

Gender is a similarity cluster or conceptual model used to simplify explanations of a number of biological phenomena. As these phenomena underlie a great deal of biology is often taken as being themselves fundamental to how biology operates, but this view (known as gender essentialism) is mistaken.

(For a solid introduction to the science around gender, see gender/101 on HTYP.)

Terminology

The word sex is (somewhat confusingly) often used as a synonym for gender.

Related Pages

Links

Reference