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However, I suspect this is not the only problem going on in the gender articles. In this article, for instance, calling gender the "brain sex" of a person seems very narrow. Where is the understanding of gender as gender identity? I want to correct this article, but I'm not confident enough in my knowledge to do it. Can anyone help? | However, I suspect this is not the only problem going on in the gender articles. In this article, for instance, calling gender the "brain sex" of a person seems very narrow. Where is the understanding of gender as gender identity? I want to correct this article, but I'm not confident enough in my knowledge to do it. Can anyone help? | ||
--[[User:Siggy|Siggy]] 00:00, 20 January 2011 (UTC) | --[[User:Siggy|Siggy]] 00:00, 20 January 2011 (UTC) | ||
| + | While we're at it, gender is missing from the lexicon. It should be added once there is a satisfactory definition. | ||
| + | --[[User:Siggy|Siggy]] 00:06, 20 January 2011 (UTC) | ||
Revision as of 00:06, 20 January 2011
I've been going around, correcting some of the gender articles which had framed transgender as a gender/physical sex mismatch. I think it is better framed as a gender/assigned gender mismatch. In brief, this is because physical sex is complicated, changeable, and at least partly socially contructed. Assigned genders are almost always male or female (and therein lies the problem).
However, I suspect this is not the only problem going on in the gender articles. In this article, for instance, calling gender the "brain sex" of a person seems very narrow. Where is the understanding of gender as gender identity? I want to correct this article, but I'm not confident enough in my knowledge to do it. Can anyone help? --Siggy 00:00, 20 January 2011 (UTC) While we're at it, gender is missing from the lexicon. It should be added once there is a satisfactory definition. --Siggy 00:06, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
