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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.
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.
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.
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.
It's worse than that. you're arguing for something that isn't even scientifically pinpointed.
you're literally quoting things that you can't explain or argue for with your own words besides "look here, some studies!!"
You are actually blowing my mind as far as stupidity goes.
What would even count as a "scientific measurement for gender as in being different from sex"?
Here are a bunch of measurements concerning gender that are not about biological sex.
If you think these measurements are redundant or false, perfectly reducible to biological facts, then go. Show us.
If you want measurements of gender, we have plenty: correlations between self-identification and neurophysiology vs. physiological endowment. I actually cited studies to that very point. That you choose to ignore them is a different matter.
You ask about "biological measurements of gender that are distinct from sex" when the entire point is that science draws a distinction between biological and social determinations. It is the equivalent of asking about physical measurements of electoral decision polls. There is a physical basis, but it is not an equivalent level of description. Gender is not a biological category even if there are biological correlates to gender, just like electoral tendencies are grounded in physical bodies without them being reducible or explainable by physics.
I can discuss any specific point of any of the studies I pointed. You have provided absolutely no reference to any single experiment, data point, method, or result cited in these studies. You have not even read the abstracts.
I will repeat my point, and I wait for an answer:
"What is your take on the findings of fMRI and DTI data that show that transgender individuals have a neurophysiology that aligns more to gender than sex? Which is not to deny biological difference. Kreukels Guillamon found that white matter microstructure in transgender individuals falls between cisgender male and female reference points. Zhou showed that transgender women (AMAB, assigned male at birth) have a BSTc volume similar to cisgender women rather than men."
I've honestly had enough wasting my time with you. You don't know what you're talking about.