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well he is getting laughed at in the meme, because he can't differentiate sex and gender either
Wouldn't it make more sense to educate the lad? I was confused myself there are two sexes (apparently gender is used for something else?)
If gender is who you like and how you feel and who you want to have sex with I don't really care, you do what makes you happy. But if we are talking strictly biologically speaking then we've got two sexes.
How is sex defined? Physical attributes? Chromosomes? Both?
I find it far easier to think in terms of the fuller expression: sexual reproduction. Humans reproduce sexually, and not, for example, asexually. This means we require a male and female gamete to create offspring. So sex is which gamete your body was designed to produce. I then round this out with a second element which is to recognize that humans are bipedal, but not everyone can walk. The point being the design laid down in uterine development to produce a specific gamete defines sex not the ability. Lastly this is biology, not sociology, when we talk sex. If we want to talk gender we bring in the latter. I find these core concepts have helped me and I hope they are helpful to others and would welcome other thoughts and ideas.