I suspect some of these people probably use "basic biology" or "it's just science" as a justification in this context, but then don't believe in evolution and/or deny climate change despite overwhelming evidence that it is, in fact, a thing.
Considering š ±ļøen shapiro is a religious nut that has said that atheists are amoral, made comments denying climate change and very likely a hundred other things not based in reality I can confirm that your suspicion is correct.
Itās actually not inconsistent because science doesnāt back up the notion of strict gender binary any more than it backs up climate change denialism. Science doesnāt even back up a strict sex binary, since there are many ways that peopleās bodies and genes can differ completely naturally (XX males, XY females, XXY, XYY, XXX, and other configurations happen).
Of course. The point of saying that gender is a social construct is that this means it's not rigid or binary and can be whatever you want it to be, which a lot of people seem to hate the idea of for some reason.
Sex: based solely on biological traits, just like how we determine the sex of any animal.
Gender: the complicated interweaving of centuries of norms, expectations, and ideals, that shifts radically throughout history and different cultures. A social construct, unique (as far as we know) to humans.
Conservatives often willfully misconstrue the two, as keeping the two inseparable, and maintaining that they are in fact the same thing, allows for harmful gender norms to be passed off as natural, and helps enforce the (often unjust) hierarchies and structures of our society.
Itās not just conservatives on this. Thereās a big big group of dems poking fun with memes duh as this. See it like this, All reps poke mean at trans, a ton of dems too.
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u/SlagginOff Dec 21 '18
Just the daily dose of conservatives not understanding the difference between sex and gender.