Gender

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

• gender disparity
• gender inequity
• gender equality
• homosexuality
• transgenderness

Links

Reference

• Wikipedia
• 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..."
  • The same article defines "gender" as "what society expects of persons of different sexes", affirming the gender fundamentalist position.
• RationalWiki
• HTYP