Everybody knows that gender is a social construct.
Duh!
C'mon man!
Also...SCIENCE!!!!!!!
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Facts, you * may * have heard of them though its doubtful given the amount of talking point regurgitation you've done.
On a daily basis , thousands of babies are born with variations in their genitalia with varying degrees of reproductive functionality. Rather than let these mutations carry on, we generally 'correct' to the standard of whatever society expects.
In most western countries with a Judeo-Christian tradition this means men and woman because of the books we know people wrote but are claimed to be from God. Thus we then 'play God' with surgical modification based on the parents belief.
In other places, like Thailand for example, this tradition doesnt hold and there are 'third sex' people with accepted roles in society.
Looked at this way gender IS entirely a construct of the society it occurs in.
This would be highly evident to anyone who examines the variation in masculine and feminine roles across cultures and groups in even just the western hemisphere, as there is no consistent definition of man/woman outside of reproductive organs. But that would take people being able to do honest analysis, highly unlikely.
This isn't to say that the various sex hormones don't play roles, or that some people are uncomfortable with it much like the opposition to gay equality used to be.
But the argument of canonical gender is spurious at best, and basically self-contradictory. Why would the big G make his perfect children like that? Why would we then 'correct' the big G, saying its a mistake? My opinion is that vanity outweighs piety.
Humans have a tendency to form troops and then define in/out groups just like monkies ( for example, this board) And just like monkies, straying from the norm elicits condemnation and often violence in order to maintain conformity...my opinion is that this is an old survival trait.
But the ins/out groups are not static, and change within our lifetimes.The categorizations can become arbitrary ( see the Middle East ).With this view, my choice is not to be monkey any longer as best I can and accept A) Science B) Higher level thinking.