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Old 04-29-2006, 09:44 PM   #21 (permalink)
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I'm mostly female but I have vestigial testicles instead of ovaries. What does that make me?

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Old 04-30-2006, 07:22 PM   #22 (permalink)
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A kind of hermaphrodite, biologically speaken. A semi-god(dess) with ability to predict future according to Greek mythology. And a good subject to test medical student knowledge.
Now, what's the most important in daily basis is how do you consider yourself.
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Old 06-21-2006, 08:08 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Princess Ivy, could you define what you mean by gender. I mean, there is gender and there is gender.
When I took a college course in human sexuality, if I remember correctly, according to the defintions we were given "sex" was what your genes say you are. If you have an X and a Y, you're male; if you have two X chromosomes, you are female. That kind of leaves out certain genetic abormalities (such as XXY), but I think what it came down to was that if there was a Y chromosome in there anywhere, that makes a male, and if there were only X chromosomes, that signals a female.

On the other hand "gender" is what you consider yourself to be; it's the part of gender identity that is in one's mind, one's psychology. Which is where transgender issues come in, if I'm not mistaken.
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Old 06-21-2006, 11:35 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Princess Ivy, could you define what you mean by gender. I mean, there is gender and there is gender. One of my instructors was researching this one language that has five different genders in its vocabulary: male/male, male/female, (?)*, female/male and female/female.

* (?) = a gender that is hard to explain in English since we don't have anything like it in our tongue.

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firstly i only barely speak english, so here i'm refering to male and female. In australia there is apparently a third category, but here in the UK we are still sticking to old stereo types. But thank you for illustrating the point i'm trying to make so clearly. that point is that the categories themselves are misleading. there is no specific single criterion that every man and every woman can fulfil to prove their masculinity/femininity to the rest of the world. I am asking that people say what they feel that they are, and what for them is the criterion that they feel is most esential to being of that gender.
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