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there aren't any coherent scientific measurements of "gender" as in being different from sex. ZERO. if there were you'd be posting them. a bunch of people getting together and deciding on an issue while using "self-identification" as a deciding factor is NOT a scientific grouping at all, it's just ideology.Saying there are no "scientific measurements" of what gender is does not even make sense. There are measurements, correlations, some of which I already cited, but which you are not addressing at all.
and as i said, if you're one that believes that "gender is a social construct" it means you can't bring in biological arguments for it, because it would contradict the very "social construct" part of the argument. If you think it's a biological aspect, there's ZERO proof that it's different in any way from sex.
it certainly does demolish the argument of it being different from sex if it's just biological measurements. especially since there's no biological measurements of "gender" that are distinct from sex. NONE.Saying sex is biological does not mean "hormones meaning sex", and I have no idea what you mean by saying this demolishes any argument. You are not even articulating coherent sentences. To say something is an anomaly means it is a statistical improbability, that is, not normal.
if you think there are biological measurements of gender that are distinct from sex i'd like to see them. All that exists is discourse about developmental anomalies that are within the "sex" realm anyway, all of which are catalogued neatly.
I know you'll rush to try to find some "studies", but as long as it's not a study that EXPLICITY offers proof of biological measurements for "gender" that are developmentally distinct from sexual development, it's just horseshit.
this is the core of the issue- you don't appear to be able to comprehend the difference between provable fact and opinion. people that have different opinions are not a new biological category. can't believe you came up with this analogy.People who advocated the heliocentric view of the world were an anomaly at some point.
anomaly does not create a separate genus. it's the same genus, but with anomalies. people with three hands aren't a different "gender". they're just anomalies.That doesn't mean they were right. If a group of people are anomalous it doesn't mean they are defective, just different.
It's worse than that. you're arguing for something that isn't even scientifically pinpointed.Nobody has ever claimed there is no correlation between sex and gender. In fact, I said above the very opposite.
you're literally quoting things that you can't explain or argue for with your own words besides "look here, some studies!!"