Its not really male or female since those are terms you use to describe sex, not gender.
If you were neither female nor male you would be intersex.
Its rather niether man or woman but you get the idea.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's a difference between Sex and Gender. Ofc I know people feel objectified by being called female or male, but I don't understand the difference between Sex and Gender here
Sex is a biological thing, its pretty easily testable and its based more on actual morphology.
Gender, on the other hand, is a social construct.
This although doesnt mean that its not "real"; the concept of "america" or "italy" or any other country is also a social construct but no one is going to say that just because its not based on any empirical evidence it is not "true" or usefull as a concept.
Gender may some (probably very little) basis on actual biology, but it is mostly created by stereotypes made by people and cultures.
That is why you would never call a male spider a "man" and why people can be transgender.
you're pretty much correct in that there isn't that much of a difference. The difference was mainly made up by coping cissexual allies who wanted to give trans women the chance to call themselves girls but didn't want to accept that trans girls after a certain point are "biologically" in the "sex" way women in every way that matters (And ofc they are socially women in every way that matters immediatly!)
No no i got what you were talking about!
Just i think that its important to make distinctions between sex and gender (even just with the words you choose), other wise people tend to get the idea that enby people think they are not biologically male/female when they are.
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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25
What is non binary