Really? I'm sorry to completely disagree, but there is a tiny minority of people who don't have two genes, either XX or XY. Therefore, almost everyone is either male or female by the biological definition that I think is completely fair and unbiased.
If people make life-choices to live as the other gender or if they have different sexual preferences or inclinations then that is all well and good. It doesn't, however, change the hard fact that there are only two biological genders.
I think that even those rare genetic mutations are still group associated with one or other of the two genders.
So I don't think it's about gender, it's about something else, of which there might be many.
For me, the label isn't really important, either. There can be as many labels as there are people when you're talking about sexual preference. Everyone is different. I find it somewhat ego-centric for people who consider their sexual preferences to be especially different to go hunting for terms to make their point. Of course, saying that could lay me wide open to accusations of homo-phobia, but it isn't that, it's just saying that heterosexual people could find a myriad of words to describe their preferences too. For me, it isn't necessary as sex is an exquisitely private thing which needs no public labels.
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Date: 2012-11-22 02:17 pm (UTC)If people make life-choices to live as the other gender or if they have different sexual preferences or inclinations then that is all well and good. It doesn't, however, change the hard fact that there are only two biological genders.
I think that even those rare genetic mutations are still group associated with one or other of the two genders.
So I don't think it's about gender, it's about something else, of which there might be many.
For me, the label isn't really important, either. There can be as many labels as there are people when you're talking about sexual preference. Everyone is different. I find it somewhat ego-centric for people who consider their sexual preferences to be especially different to go hunting for terms to make their point. Of course, saying that could lay me wide open to accusations of homo-phobia, but it isn't that, it's just saying that heterosexual people could find a myriad of words to describe their preferences too. For me, it isn't necessary as sex is an exquisitely private thing which needs no public labels.