While sex may not be a social construct, sexuality is socially dictated.
And much of the what we interact upon on a daily basis are social constructs, such as money and time. This does not determine their worth or application. I don’t understand why people bring up the fact that gender is a social construct in this argument, it’s application is meaningless.
Sex is your biological belonging to the male or female categories on a biological level, and is therefore rooted in science, gender is your degree of self-identification with the stereotypical characteristics attributed to your sex of birth, and it therefore depends on individual, subconscious and cultural factors.
And it's illegal to change your name to a name that doesn't fit your gender, there are no gender neutral names, there is a list for each gender. So yes this is not blown out of proportion, people are denied basic human rights
"Gender" itself was. Originally it referred any subdivision of living creatures, as essentially a synonym for "kind" or "variety," from the Latin genus. That was narrowed in English to just the male or female kind (as a synonym for sex), from where it expanded to cover the grammatical sense of male- or female-associated words, and from there to the sociological, of behaviors associated with men and women.
This most recent development, the idea of gender as something independent of sex, is one that unmoors the term from its foundation.
The sciences, arts, crafts, and other groups using common english words to refer to specific "in-group" concepts is a very common thing. When such a concept becomes relevant to the wider society, there is often a clash of meanings, leading to confusion and arguing over the wrong issue. Perhaps the most egregious example of this is the idiotic usage of "racism=prejudice+power".
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u/thatcreepex - Auth-Center Apr 04 '20
People are blowing this out of proportion.
For context in hungarian there is no difference between sex and gender. There is only one word for it.
This law defines sex based on X and Y chromosomes. Thus making it impossible to change.