Someone should tag me when we either cross $110K or fall below $100K.
Why?
in FOUR MONTHS MAX you will have your civil sex changed.
At least they still say sex.
If gender is a mental attribute, it's hard to contest the aforementioned 6-foot self-appointed lesbian athlete being a female. It's a state of mind, right?
If mental attributes do count, I swear I can score 100 baskets consistently (with my mind). And I guarantee I am mentally able to run a marathon in 30 minutes - as long as other pedestrians are cleared out of my way.
Yeah, I heard someone talking about the gender of a newborn baby, and I thought that it was pretty strange to be talking that way about a baby, since I thought that the baby was going to either be a boy or a girl, and from my perspective that would be sex and not gender.. so yeah, it can be confusing in regards to how gender might be a thing or might be considered to need to be a thing.. at least for a baby..
I did a
quickie search and it appears that about 1/4,500 babies have ambiguous genitalia.. ..so yeah there could be a question about sex for about 0.022% of all babies.. and yeah that is a pretty small number.
I suppose the other situation where gender might become a consideration is when someone chooses to change their sex, and yeah, that is the part that seems to have had become so common since so many folks seem to not want to be identified by their sex but instead by their gender.. .. but yeah, so with a baby, then I suppose if the parent are wanting to leave the option open, then they might not want to use the term sex rather than gender.. .. and yeah, that remains quite complicated that we might consider that we can re-define sex with ideas of gender, and I am not even taking away from the idea that maybe some folks don't like people of the opposite sex, and so surely in those instances, people should be able to choose their preferences.. .. and then maybe it just becomes such a slippery slope in terms of why might another person want to inspect to make sure that the gender and the sex match.. .. and maybe it might not matter so much, but still confusing to consider that sex and gender ....
Oh fuck.. i seem to be so unwoke to be describing my exploration of the topic, and surely I see that when I look up the difference between sex and gender, then it talks about socially constructed roles, and I suppose that makes some sense that gender could refer to socially constructed roles... even though if we talk about sex, sometimes sex would make some roles to be more logically obvious than other roles based on physical characteristic differences between sexes.
My research is not really helping. Maybe I should return to college and work towards a degree in gender studies? hahahahaha.. That surely would hurt to study the topic beyond what little research I just did.. and it is not like I have not thought about the topic previously.. since sometimes it can be frustrating to be in situations in which sex might be ambiguous or even someone refers to themselves or even another person as a "they.".. .. which truly can be irritating for me when a singular is being referred to as a plural, unless it was meant to be a joke.. then I could see why someone might convolute some of the ways of referring to others.
Oh your point about mental versus physical attributes, we likely realize that men and women do differ in their skills, talents and abilities based on sex.. but then sometimes we might end up getting into discussions of nature versus nurture too, and surely there have been all kinds of discussions of those kinds of issues that do not necessarily result in wants to deviate sex and gender, even though surely there might be some women who are more physically strong than men, but that is generally an aberation rather than any kind of common occurrence.