Gender

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What is gender?

There are biological aspects to gender. Each gender provides the gametes for a new lifeform, but that's just sexual reproduction. The long chain of several lines of evolution.

What is gender when contained in a social context?

Why do girls play with baby dolls?
Why do boys play with military dolls?

Why do we believe that gender is something inherent when it is obviously something that is taught.

I am a male with a feminine body (I've had my arse groped more than once in a club cos some misogynist thought I was female). If it's down to stature then my world should have consisted of being brought up in a feminine world.

I was lucky enough to be brought up with enough of a view of several different struggles for equality in a local world that was fighting for a rejection of prejudice to come to a number of generalisations.

Some languages don't have gender. Instead of She or He it is simply They.

Social gender is not inherent in genetics.

There is only one Human Race.

So where does your gender come from? What is derived from social conventions and what is genetically you? Are you defined by social context or by you?

I'm a human ape. What are you?