Comments on: Weekly News Roundup: Bad Headlines, Martian moons, and Rotating Houses http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/12/11/weekly-news-roundup-bad-headlines-martian-moons-and-rotating-houses/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Fri, 25 May 2012 18:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Carter http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/12/11/weekly-news-roundup-bad-headlines-martian-moons-and-rotating-houses/comment-page-1/#comment-28370 Carter Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:54:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=4629#comment-28370 That Independent.co.uk article is nearly unreadable. The journalist clearly has little decent background on the science of sex and gender. Sex, of course, is a biological phenomenon and can range gradually from female to male. Of course, for most organisms to reproduce, the organism must be at one end of the spectrum or the other and find a mate of the opposite. Sex is determined by genes, as I needn't explain. Gender is a social construct that pigeonholes (not accurately, in the infrequent case of an individual somewhere in the middle of the sex spectrum) the individual into either male or female roles with attached expectations. Transgender people are those whom society classified at birth as belonging to one gender, but these people may act as the opposite gender or feel that they belong to the opposite. Educations! That Independent.co.uk article is nearly unreadable. The journalist clearly has little decent background on the science of sex and gender. Sex, of course, is a biological phenomenon and can range gradually from female to male. Of course, for most organisms to reproduce, the organism must be at one end of the spectrum or the other and find a mate of the opposite. Sex is determined by genes, as I needn’t explain. Gender is a social construct that pigeonholes (not accurately, in the infrequent case of an individual somewhere in the middle of the sex spectrum) the individual into either male or female roles with attached expectations. Transgender people are those whom society classified at birth as belonging to one gender, but these people may act as the opposite gender or feel that they belong to the opposite.

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