@Dawnbeatzhard@ChinoBellio@DarrenSole Same with male and female. Rare DSD/intersex conditions exist and those people should be treated kindly. But they are variations within the male/female binary โ not proof that man/woman/boy/girl are made-up social inventions or that sex is a spectrum.
@Dawnbeatzhard@ChinoBellio@DarrenSole The point is simple: Humans are a two-legged (bipedal) species. Some are born with one leg or none due to rare developmental issues. Those variations are real and deserve care, but they don't change the basic fact that humans are bipedal.
@Dawnbeatzhard@JaySyfr@DarrenSole The idea that "man/woman/boy/girl" are purely made-up social inventions comes from gender studies theory, not hard facts. Gender studies isn't settled science like biology or physics, it's often more about ideas and activism than proven, repeatable evidence.
@Dawnbeatzhard@JaySyfr@DarrenSole No one's denying science. Science shows clear biological differences between males and females, that's why we have men's and women's sports, medicine, and bathrooms in the first place.
@Dawnbeatzhard@ChinoBellio@DarrenSole Humans are a bipedal species. Sometimes something goes wrong and people are born with one leg or maybe even know legs at all. These are rare variations within the bipedal normalcy. Do these rare variations of people who weren't born with 2 legs disrupt the whole bipedal normalcy?
@Dawnbeatzhard@JaySyfr@DarrenSole The idea that man/woman/boy/girl are purely made-up social inventions is a modern claim from certain gender studies circles. It doesn't match how the real world works, from sports and medicine to everyday observation across every culture.
@Dawnbeatzhard@JaySyfr@DarrenSole Male and man/boy means the same thing, as well as female and woman/girl. Man, woman, boy, and girl, aren't strictly social concepts. The only people who are trying to separate these words and add new meanings to them are activists.
@Dawnbeatzhard@JaySyfr@DarrenSole Around the turn of the 19th century, gender and sex meant the same thing. People used gender as a euphemism of sex because saying sex made people squeamish because it also meant intercorse. Around 10 years ago it was hijacked by the trans community to mean what it does today.
@Dawnbeatzhard@DarrenSole Man, woman, boy, and girl are not strictly gender constructs. They have been used interchangeably in medicine and law for over a hundred years to reference biological sex.
@curioushaggis Man, woman, boy, and girl aren't just social terms. They've been used interchangeably with male and female for over a hundred years in medicine and law to reference sex.
@curioushaggis Well, as far as humans and the human body goes, there are 'only' males and females. DSDs variations don't make someone a third species or sex. Trans is a psychological condition that occurs in the minds of males and females, men and women.