might want to take secular coursework in history and biology at a university you may be from some culture that bijects gender to a non-medical reduction of sexual reproductive role, or one that is primitive enough to conflate sexual dimorphism with behavioral identity and expressions (despite said traits not being sex based and empirically proven to not have anatomical requirements), but your system is not universal in scientific literature we are going to continue to observe and report on what humans do in material reality, including the nuances of their social constructs, rather than how some group wants humans to act or self categorize if that makes you insecure, you can keep using your own rituals and practices. you are not required or expected to move past indoctrinated ethnocentrism or to understand these STEM topics. those of us that do understand it aren't going to drop it just because it confuses your people...

@@RM-xr8lq what, in particular, am I getting wrong? “Gender” has no consistent meaning and has devolved into nonsense. An analysis of the history of the term shows how it started off as a term that referred to language (ie, German language has three genders) then became a euphemism for sex for squeamish Americans. Then Dr Money introduced his madman experiments. And then Butler came along. What is missing in replacing the word gender with more precise and accurate terms all based on sex as I suggest above? Odd that you resort to personal attacks . If I said something false, just point out specifically what I got wrong.

@@RM-xr8lq you are confusing ‘gender’ for ‘sex-based stereotype’. Different cultures have different sex-based stereotypes. This is true. Ethnocentrism is to deny that fact; i do not. Gender ideology, which is anti-science, holds that there is some magical thing, called ‘gender’, which they can’t define non-circularly, and which can magically be ‘aligned with’ sex, but is not sex and not merely a sex-based stereotype. So perhaps point out if and where I’m wrong. Define gender (non-circularly), define sex, and the relation between the two. Sadly, gender ideologues social justice warriors such as yourself have problems with basic definitions. Like theology, everything is a mystery.

@@RC-qf3mp when studying general humans from a secular perspective, gender is referring to a mode of identity and expression contextual to the individual and culture they are being examined under. some cultures do not allow self-identifying gender since it is assigned externally, so an individuals gender identity may not match their perception by others. other cultures do not consider gender static, so it is not an issue to change it this is separate from the physical anatomy of a person that sex generally refers to, which is either a boolean referencing a dichotomized model of human reproductive role (ignoring the null value/intersex), or just a collection of primary and secondary sexual characteristics (e.g. some studies might look at hormone levels and other attributes for a more direct correlation than simply “sex”). some aspects of “sex” (when using the latter definition) can be dynamic, and there is quite a lot of overlap in general, so you might hear it referred to as a bimodal distribution labeling a person from the bugis society only by anatomical “sex”, and labeling an hijra only by sex, does not tell you the same knowledge as using both sex and a separate category for gender. those two cultures do not have the same categories for gender, and do not assign them in the same way. using your suggestion of “dropping gender and just stick to sex” results in information loss. there is little consistency in the mapping of “sex-gender” across different human societies, especially when considering modern LGBT sub-populations where expectations are thrown out the window thus any correlation between sex and gender is (a) inconsistent across different human groups and (b) insufficient to accurately transform from one to the other without data loss, hence why they are seen as distinct. this discussion is mostly an issue in a language like English, where they have decided to use these two same words in vastly different ways across their media and academic literature. ignoring their etymology, and instead seeing “sex” and “gender” as “fieldA” and “fieldB” relating to the above meanings, it should be obvious why you might want to keep both those data fields for analysis

@@FreedomMeansLearning-ke7dk thanks!,

Yes, thanks! Appreciate you. 💙

You mean putting people in jail for working on the sabbath?

Cis 58 yo female here. Yes. I was curious why so many young people are declaring their pronouns these days, so I Googled it and found this very helpful video. When I was in college for art and theatre in the early 80s, my wide circle of friends included a whole, complex spectrum of genders. We just didn’t worry about how other people defined us.

Cis man? So your a man. There's no such thing as "cis" anything

same! it was really relieving to hear :)