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Ok then. I was really just throwing some information out there to clarify my comment about males being more susceptible to disorders which influence their sex phenotype, wasn't really applying it to the overarching question just yet.
Let me ask this. Do you guys think we need to separate our understanding of sex and gender into two catagories? Sort of a personal and public thing to over-simplify it. It struck me that most things that we find really personal or self-defining rarely exist in the exact same form in both our private and public identities. We're making the definition of 'sex' so broad that there's no way to pin it down to something everyone can see and understand from the same angle. There's a huge biological component, no denying that, but we also want to throw in the psychological, which is what Ibram mostly refers to. Are these the same thing? Are they equally as important? Who is each important to? These aren't easy questions that we've left lodged within the bigger one, so I think we've incorrectly defined our parameters here. Perhaps a detailed look at our own definitions would help clarify a few things.