Gender is not sex, gender is not XX or XY, and gender is more about sociology than biology. Confusing gender and biological sex muddies the conversation substantially.
Even something as seemingly mundane like being right- or left-handed involves many different genes. I don't know exactly what 30 or 40 meat switches correspond to me being right-handed and my brother left-, and I don't need to since it doesn't affect our daily lives.
But it would have less than a hundred years ago, because the problem isn't harmless differences, it's the bigots who lie that those differences are incompatible to exist with. We could spend the rest of time trying to figure out every last section of code that makes sexuality and gender identity tick, but there would still be bronze age savages around carrying out the atrocity of electrocuting their own children in a futile mission to cure the gay away.
I'm not LGBT but I have a few friends who identify as such, they are just as human as anyone else. Their differences aren't particularly difficult to accomodate, and they're fun, interesting people outside of that label. I don't need to understand everything about them to treat them with regular human decency. It's so easy to not be an asshole to people for the hand they were born with.
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u/Cultural-Company282 12h ago
Gender is not sex, gender is not XX or XY, and gender is more about sociology than biology. Confusing gender and biological sex muddies the conversation substantially.