yes this all makes sense. it doesn't erase the existence of trans people to recognise biological sex. I support trans people and I support realistic discussions about sex and gender.
Agreed! Trans people, like everyone else, should be able to live the life they choose. At the same time, we must protect the health of children who are still learning about their bodies. Transition is right for some people who are of age, but not everyone.
@@ParadoxInstitute i dont understand what you mean by protecting children. sex is important if youre at the doctors or something, but can you explain why sex is important to "protect children"? young children dont actually get to fully transition so its not like it would hurt any children to transition
@@HeadRedShot I mean, legally trans children are required to take puberty blockers until they reach the age of adulthood before they can begin HRT. The most harm the former can do is, well, delay puberty - if a child decides HRT is not for them, they can simply hop off the blockers with no ill effects. There can be cases of children actually taking HRT, but they're few and far between, honestly.
@@HeadRedShot puberty blockers can negatively affect bone density and joint health as well as IQ since puberty affects brain development. Also children on puberty blockers tend to be more suicidal. Little to no long term studies have been done. We're just experimenting on our kids when 80% of gender disphoric children develop to be content with their biological sex with no intervention. Major body modifications whether chemical otherwise should be held off until the person can decide for themselves as an adult.
@@austin3789 "haha 41%" well fun fact: the suicide statistics are based on discrimination. studies show that trans kids with accepting parents are way less likely to kill themself. trying to deny them treatment will not help at all with those statistics. also heres something you dont seem to understand. 20% is a massive fucking percentage. sure, 80% might live a flawless life, but dont you care about the other 20%? www.phsa.ca/transcarebc/child-youth/affirmation-transition/medical-affirmation-transition/puberty-blockers-for-youth proof for negative side effects are severely lacking, and short term effects show to be extremely minimal. rejecting people puberty blockers now until "long term" evidence is shown is incredibly irresponsible because there are people in severe need of it. if anything it would just be worse to reject people from getting puberty blockers because the 20% youre talking about might get breast cancer after top surgery. puberty blockers would remove that potential risk and tons of others.
I've been saying we need more info-rich, fact-based videos that are short and graphical and fun to watch. Your average person who is confused on these issues won't sit through an hour-long lecture on youtube, and people pushing gender ideology have a ton of humorous, light hearted, appealing videos pushing their narrative. I'm so happy to see a video that offers so much important information in a way that is easy and fun to digest. Thank you!
Before John Money, the nouns sex and gender were synonyms. Many people and check-lists on forms used the noun gender instead of sex so as not to bring in the verb sex (eg intercourse). Money created the terms gender identity etc. and Rothblatt, the Pritzker's, etc dumped millions of dollars to change the definition of the word gender to mean how one things about oneself in terms of being male or female. In other words, the noun gender was hijacked. Just look at an older dictionary, e.g., a public library. Thanks goodness I have one from 1975. Here's a video I created about this topic: ua-cam.com/video/v0J4WPurRBs/v-deo.html
I'm still trying to wrap my head around this difference. After reading Debra Soh, I was wondering, couldn't we simply replace the term gender with personality? The descriptive and normative sides influence your personality. I just feel when we talk about gender, people mean personality.
Well, think of a gender as a box and your personality might pick and choose what box you want to belong to, or even what diffrent boxes you belong to and that choise of choosing these boxes, what you refer to as personality is gender expression.
@@nathanjonsson6467 Personality is not gender expression lmao, personality is everything in life that shapes everything about you, not just one or two things, gender acvitists have completely turned personality into a shallow thing.
Absolutely, we should not be telling little children that they are boys or girls based on whether they like trucks or dolls. However, most trans people are not transgender because of gender. There is something in all our brains that tells us we are one sex or the other. Then, at toddler age we learn that male is called boy and female is called girl, and we do something all girls and boys do: we self-gender-socialize with the gender associated with the sex we think we are. In the words of Simone de Beauvoir, it turns us into girls and boys. The only difference is in trans children that thing in our brain is reversed or indecisive.
@@sharktenko267 can I see the video you made or the essay you wrote so I can understand your point of view, or are you just full of it and have no argument other than "you're wrong because I disagree"?
Brilliant videos. So glad you made these and keep up the good work. I really hope they are seen by a huge audience. I have been troubled lately by the amount of people in the public eye, particularly influential politicians and media types, and people online who claim that sex is a "spectrum" and/or does not exist and who are not aware of basic scientific facts. Well done! :-)
A brilliant series! The unfathomable thing about this is that learning institutions, especially those as prestigious as most universities, should be impervious to the rantings and idiocies of ideologies. They instead choose to subscribe to those ideologies instead of embracing the facts and working to dispel the grossly flawed arguments of the ideologies.
Word is that woke people in Biden's administration is threatening schools with funding if they don't support the trans agenda. In addition, those professors and teachers are LGBT+ too so it is also in their personal interest to further this ludicrous nonsense. Finally, a lot of investment has been made to sex change drugs and procedures so hospitals and pharmaceutical companies want those investments to pay off. As the Bible has said, "The love of money is the root of all evil".
The idea I'm getting from this video is the idea of saying "'You look and/or act like' the opposite sex, therefore you are" is regressive and just enforces stereotypes There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying Blaire White & Caitlyn Jenner, etc are men and Buck Angel & Elliot Page are women. Like why do the sexes have to have a specific look or temperament? Sounds pretty stereotypical to me I mostly value consistency so words such as "male/female, he/she, boy/girl, and man/woman should continue to refer to the 2 sexes rather than something as fickle as "gender" which is more of a masculine/feminine thing But I also believe gender should stay in linguistics to refer to and arbitrarily categorize words and not be used for human beings
Haha thank you! We're currently working on a multi-part series on intersex. Each video in the series will cover a major intersex condition. Look forward to that--a lot of great info on the way!
I love the message of this video! Yes gender has a connection to biological sex however it is so much more subjective, whereas biological sex is so much more objective. Also we should be able to live with the knowledge that our interests or personality type doesn’t mean we are born in the “wrong body” that is regressive and sexist like you said! We should encourage people to love their bodies and be themselves fully at the same time! Its ok for us to acknowledge gender but not to define ourselves by gender! Also while we can make a connection with gender and sex we have to remember it’s still separate. Otherwise how can we make a connection in the first place if we haven’t already defined sex entirely on it’s own completely separate from the mind? There’s no way to make a connection if we haven’t already established a distinction beforehand. 😊 amazing video once again 👌👌
Sounds to me like the road to freedom is to take the word "gender " out of our vocabularies and keep "sex", for it's objective and everything else is personal preference that has nothing to do with "societal expectations". Problem solved, no reason to walk in circles over this.
Before John Money, the nouns sex and gender were synonyms. Many people and check-lists on forms used the noun gender instead of sex so as not to bring in the verb sex (eg intercourse). Money created the terms gender identity etc. and Rothblatt, the Pritzker's, etc dumped millions of dollars to change the definition of the word gender to mean how one things about oneself in terms of being male or female. In other words, the noun gender was hijacked. Just look at an older dictionary, e.g., a public library. Thanks goodness I have one from 1975. Here's a video I created about this topic: ua-cam.com/video/v0J4WPurRBs/v-deo.html
I really like that you color coded everything so it was immediately obvious that whatever topic you were talking about was either related to biologic sex or gender.
I love this channel , I want to add that gender was born as a grammar thing to define masculine and feminine . English is a pretty genderless language but many languages have genders on any words , I’m from Italy so Italian is one example , anything is gendered , cause in Italian there is not just one article ( like in English that there is only “the “) , we have masculine article ( il ) singular , feminine singular ( la ) , masculine plural ( gli, I ) , feminine plurale ( le ) , all is gendered in languages like Italian , Spanish , French , Portuguese and many others . La sedia ( the chair ) has a feminine gender , of course a chair doesn’t have a sex . Sex is referred to biology and living things not to concepts or objects . In English though there is some gendered things , like for example , a tornado can have a gender , like the tornado Katrina or whatever it’s called with a feminine name , so she has a gender , still of course a tornado can’t have a sex . So sex is about animals , humans and in plants too in some cases , gender is about grammar . The word gender doesn’t apply in medicine or in biology but in grammar .
Before John Money, the nouns sex and gender were synonyms. Many people and check-lists on forms used the noun gender instead of sex so as not to bring in the verb sex (eg intercourse). Money created the terms gender identity etc. and Rothblatt, the Pritzker's, etc dumped millions of dollars to change the definition of the word gender to mean how one things about oneself in terms of being male or female. In other words, the noun gender was hijacked. Just look at an older dictionary, e.g., a public library. Thanks goodness I have one from 1975. Here's a video I created about this topic: ua-cam.com/video/v0J4WPurRBs/v-deo.html
I think this was overall a good video but for around the last two minutes I got some strong PragerU vibes. I'm pretty sure there is no evidence that it is a significant issue that boys (biogical men) are told theyre girls (biological women) because they dont conform to gender stereotypes and vice versa. Very often people of a certain gender dont conform to the stereotypes associated with their gender. But in that case, almost no parent then instantly thinks "well theyre the different sex" or "well theyre the different gender". Most transgenders and transsexuals come out to their environment themselves (of course you cant change your sex yet but say that you want to be treated as it) and then their parents or if theyre old enough they themselves maybe decide to socially and legally transition. Now a response to the conclusion: Yes, your gender expression is not able to change your sex. However, because gender is a matter of identity, and we cant read others thoughts to see what theyre truly thinking, by saying you are certain gender makes you that gender, no matter what gender stereotypes apply to you. There are probably many trans women with a masculine gender expression or trans men with a feminine gender expression. Again the issue you described in the last two minutes isnt something you observe from your environment. Rather the contrary, states (such as Alabama recently) denying trans youth the means to transition is much more common and should therefore be talked about way more in this video. It just seems like you are a well researched biologist, who then was paid to fit in a little bit of political agenda at the end. Please dont delete this comment ;)
But the gender issue is more linked to the issue of how many genders there are. Trans people feel they should be the opposite sex. Obviously they aren’t. But some people believe that there are multiple genders, so are there?? If gender is so different from sex, can there be a 3rd gender while there still being 2 sexes?
For the ones confused as to why gender is not just abolished because it just reinforces stereotypes, my take on it is that its simply because it helps us understand how certain groups of people are treated within society, kind of like how race works, race is a social construct as well and needs to be abolished but if you abolish it, it makes it hard to understand how different groups of people are treated within society so unless, gender equality is reached same goes to racial equality they can't be abolished or rather shouldn't. And before someone tells "well that is just asking too much", you are forgetting to take into account that for the vast majority of human existance race and gender have not been a thing and thus were not used as tools to oppress groups of people, and humans are not born racist or sexist rather they are products of our society.
I'm still undecided about this whole separation of sex and gender into two completely separate concepts because sex do affect behaviour and preferences to a large extent.
It’s not common yet but there are groups trying to normalise this response, such as through promoting sex education that teaches about gender identity and putting pressure in schools to support children transitioning. Groups like Mermaids in the UK for example.
@@Corvid_Moon Mutilation of healthy body parts, infertility, loss of BMD, can cause inability to reach orgasm, higher risk of cancer, life-long medicalization. And it's irreversible. Children cannot consent to major permanent cosmetic surgery.
@@niharika3280 I see but there is a difference as act like what we know as boy manners and being a transgender person. What was said here (or at least what I understood of) is that now we are encouraging children's to transition by just acting like a tomboy. What you think?
@@kakuynaraque2 "I see but there is a difference as act like what we know as boy manners and being a transgender person" what exactly is that difference? I am asking because I honestly do not understand how assessing a gender is done objectively.
Agree. Great video as usual! I have been binge watching this channel all day today! I love your content! ♥ "Gender" and "Sex" used to mean practically the same thing. The only time "gender" was used exclusively is in Social Studies to connote masculine and feminine roles which are still attributed to sex. "Gender" was used mostly to avoid sounding explicit because "sex" also meant f- king. However, "gender" has now been warped by the woke mob to also mean self-perception. In this sense, "gender" is reduced to a mere fantasy and not real. Thus, we can all reject anyone's self-perceived gender because that is just their fantasy. It's not necessarily true. This is also why those woke trans freaks avoid equating "gender" and "sex" because "sex" is a verifiable truth: men have a penis, women have a vagina. A man who claims to be a woman is LYING.
At BEST "gender" is just a synonym for "the stereotypes of one of the sexes". At WORST (and the way it's commonly used, today) it's just murky, vaguely-defined mess of near-meaningless, somewhere between "a mood", "a vibe", and something comparable to "sub-cultures" like "goths", "scene kids", "jocks", etc. "Gender" only has ANY real meaning, if it's inherently linked with sex. But if REMOVED from it's connection with sex, how is "gender" anything except a pointless set of constraints, who's only really purpose is to enforce social norms? The mental gymnastics needed, to think that a society who cares about "gender", but essentially denies/ignores sex, is somehow a GOOD thing, are just baffling to me.
Agree 💯 "Gender" and "Sex" used to mean practically the same thing. "Gender" was used mostly to avoid sounding explicit because "sex" also meant f- king. However, "gender" has been given a new definition by the woke trans mob to also mean self-perception. In this sense, "gender" is reduced to a mere fantasy and not necessarily real. Thus, we can all reject anyone's self-perceived gender because that is just their fantasy. It's simply not true and no one has to play along with it. This is also why those woke trans freaks avoid equating "gender" and "sex" because "sex" is a verifiable truth: men have a penis, women have a vagina. A man who claims to be a woman is LYING.
@@mocabe01 You seem to completely strawman the "woke trans mob" considering you clearly did not watch this video, as gender is defined as simply as it can be lol
I agree with most of this, but it feels weird to say that any trans person would say that gender expression is an indicator of sex, or that people are saying boys should transition and become trans just because they don't like trucks, or any other stereotypically masculine thing.
Thats not what he is saying. Being trans is atypical trait most people who are "trans" have a what you would say gender dysphoria but they are still male or female. Being trans is a social thing not a literal one, a man cannot become a women and vice versa. Whether you like blue/pink, dolls/trucks doesnt mean shit for trans because of the dysphoria but they are still literally a male or female who is socially living as a "woman"/"man" but not literally.
Unfortunately the normative dimension influences the descriptive reality heavily. Also read up on Gina Rupon! She wrote ''The Gendered Brain'', which discusses how the small differences we find in male versus female brains, plus the general differences in behavior, are not a product of biology, but rather a product of socialization from an incredibly early age. She discusses how our brains are much more mallable than is assumed, also by scholars, and how many scholars are still searching for the existence of a ''gendered brain'' that doesn't exist. Not to mention that the diversity in traits and behavior within male and females is much greater than the diversity between them, even living in societies that impose extremely different socialization and expectations based on your sex. Plus gender ideas and expectations differ between cultures. E.g. in Turkey most hairdressers are men, it's seen as a male job, whereas in the West it's generally seen as a female job.
That’s nurture vs nature. In the end it can’t adequately explain why the sexes were socialized the way they are because it doesn’t acknowledge they have any biological, objective basis by which the society then organized labour, social roles, etc around.
not all boys and girsl aren't "told" that they are the opposite gender/sex, they often say it themselves. which is not to say that this makes them right, but that it's more complicated than them being told. they reach these conclusions themselves, and that is even more insidious.
I don't know why conservatives believe people are forcing kids to transition. It is insanely difficult for a child to even be allowed to transition because they typically need to have notes from a therapist, permission from parents, and even then the medical staff might just postpone the treatments for no good reason. And if a child is at all unhappy with being treated as a different gender (meaning they are cis) then it will be very obvious after going through all that trouble. But if a child is trans and they are given the treatment they want or need (like being called a different name or pronouns, wearing different clothes, or medically transitioning) then it will be clear because of their gender euphoria. so, yes, masculine girls and feminine boys do exist, but the distinction between them and trans/nonconforming children is obvious and the trans kids need to be treated how they want to be treated
I have enjoyed these videos so far, but at 5:00 it kind of jumps the shark for me. It gives the impression that children everywhere are being categorized as gender opposite their biological sex. This section lacks nuance, or just feels really thin in comparison to the rest of the videos. Should it be it’s own video where it’s not rushed through? It comes across as fear mongering, instead of talking about the issue from a scientific perspective.
That's called a mask slip, which is when someone says or does something that reveals their real character or intentions. I've seen a few of their other videos, and it seems they always leave out crucial information. This video, for instance, doesn't mention that gender identity and gender expression are different things.
@@NickyTannock What is the difference between Gender Identity and Gender Expression? Why would someone not express their identity?Why would someone express themselves differently from what they actually are?
@@abdullahkuzhan7247 "What is the difference between Gender Identity and Gender Expression?" Gender identity is the gendered aspect of a person's mental body map (areas of the brain responsible for self-perception and body ownership). Gender expression is how a person expresses their gender through interests, clothing, mannerisms, etc. The difference between them is that one is internal, while the other is external. "Why would someone not express their identity?" I can't speak for others on this point but, in my case, it took me decades to come out to myself and others because of a deep fear of upsetting people and losing the ones I care about. "Why would someone express themselves differently from what they actually are?" If by "actually are", you mean what they physically are, it's because this minimises the discomfort of mismatched gender identity. I know that, for me, noticing my sex is like being smacked in the face with a funhouse mirror (one of those curvy mirrors that creates a distorted image).
i began watching with a fear it would end up with "hurrr they are the saaaaame" but no. it repeats pretty much what i have been saying for a long time. And i am a progressive.
I sort of disagree on a few of the terms on gender, but overall I would say I agree with everything stated. Now what confuses me is the debate on things like the bathroom, and sports why are we having this conversation if we know Sex is about pretty much biology. Males should use the Male Bathroom not the Female bathroom, same with sports.
Well, trans people are uncomfortable using their sex's toilets. Also, why do we need to separate toilets by sex, is it because of rape? I understand that cis females often feel uncomfortable with having biological males in their toilets, however, this actually applies to biological females who look masculine, which can happen when trans males take hormones. Also, trans females who have gotten puberty blockers can look female. I reckon the only way to accomodate trans females and non-binary people is to have unisex toilets. They shouldn't replace sex-segregated toilets though, because we still need those for cis females.
This will be really useful. You wouldn't believe how many people used an argument that a kid is trans because he/she prefers playing with opposite toys. Hell, i liked ponies when i was a boy and i'm so glad my parents were not regressive lefties that would transition me after noticing that!
"Gender" just means type or kind. It needn't have *anything* to do with sex, but is just a matter of categorization, which can be as arbitrary as we want. Until recently the term was used nearly exclusively in English to refer to language characteristics of nouns and their modifiers.
As a trans woman who has always been a tomboy, gender roles and gender itself are a LOT more complicated than they're presented. Tomboys aren't boys, and femboys aren't girls...and trans people won't try to force them to be. But we also won't tell them they can't be.
In what ways are gender roles and gender itself "more complicated than they're presented"? I'm baffled by what you've said here tbh. But I'm genuinely curious about this.
@@DiogenesNephew So, like I said to start: I'm a tomboy. That's a girl who dresses and behaves in a masculine manner. But I'm also trans, which means I'm a girl who was born physiologically male. Inversely I have a friend who is a trans man, but also a femboy. There's also people whose gender presentation is nonbinary, who don't present as either male or female, and some who present as some combination of both. And people who were born with a combination of both male and female physiology, or a lack of either trait. And then there's gender itself which has the same combinations that physiology does, but in the mind. In short: Gender identity can be male, female, both, or neither. Physiology can be male, female, both, or neither. And Gender Presentation can be male, female, both, or neither. And none of the three have to match. (Just assuming that each of the 4 options is a hard tick, and not the spectrum they are, there's 64 basic combinations).
It's not true to say that boys are "being told that they are girls". Nobody is telling kids to transition. People know in themselves who they are. And you're massively oversimplifying. There is a difference between people who are in some ways gender non-conforming but happy with their biological sex, and those who feel that the only way they can be happy is to live fully and to be accepted as the opposite sex.
So there are only two genders then? Me personally think all we need is sex not gender, if a girl acts like a boy she's a tomboy and if a boy acts like a girl his a Tomgirl. That's just their personality but their sex is stil either male or female.
Gender is based upon biological sex and certain behaviors which tend to be correlated with them. However, the particular norms, roles, stereotypes, or other features that go into the gender "boxes" vary by culture, place, and time. Realistically speaking, there are multiple "flavors" of man and woman through culture, place, and time, sort of like "chocolate" and "vanilla": in one context they may "taste" differently than another. In other words, what's in the man box in one context is not what's in the man box in another context. Some societies have boxes other than man and woman, and those tend to be reserved for social members who do not conform to what's expected of them in the man and woman boxes of their own societies. Generally speaking, those other boxes are stigmatized and aren't generally thought of as "good". They are seen as defective or unusual and the other boxes are created as a compromise which allows them to still participate in their societies. Sometimes they have to do with pure economics. I.e., in some cultures, when two men love and live together, one becomes the "wife" not because he is trans of any sort, but because one person needs to do the "womanly" duties so that the household survives! Another way of looking at it is that many cultures have a concept of "shirt" but the style of shirt in each culture varies. I'd say that a reasonably accurate thing to say is that there are two biological sexes, with a range of phenotypical distributions, and a great many genders, which do cluster around "man" and "woman" but vary greatly by culture, place, and time.
@@Nemo_Anom still doesn't provide that their is more then two genders, we are in the English speaking world and from our history there was no other option in sex. Just because other cultures had/has a 3rd gender doesn't mean there is one. What you just talk about is personality not gender. sex do change over time but still keep the key parts like woman gives birth and man protect and provide.
@@blunelson8226 No, they're conceptualized as genders. You could say that, in the modern western world, there is only two genders. I'd more or less agree with you, but point out that it can always change, and does seem to be so.
I really wish these were good videos, but they aren't informative at all. They are manipulative instead. You begin every video with an serious and "honest" outlook on the scientific debate, but then you usually end them with an obviously political and ideological argument based on nothing at all. While this could be a good video about how sex and gender are currently defined and discussed, it instead preys on people fear that the "trans" are "telling kids they are trans too". You provide no proof or evidence that it is common for children to be defined trans by their parents because of toys or clothes they like, but you make it sound like a very dangerous problem on current society. You also frequently use transphobic authors as sources even when non-transphobic authors could be used to say the same things. In one video you even use "gender theorists" as a synonymous term to phony scientists, when many serious scientists discuss gender nowadays. It is no surprise that, while you supposedly "respect" trans people, your comment section is often filled with transphobes who are here to gather arguments in order to attack gender identity advocates and trans people. If this is on accident, which I doubt, I would ask you to really rethink your sources as well as your main concerns, or at least take your time to better position yourself on these matters. Trans people are not choosing to be trans. You may discuss that hormonization is a choice (which of course it is) just as taking any kind of medical treatment is a choice, but choosing to call yourself "boy" or "girl" goes way beyond the basic biological discussion you keep stating your videos are about. A boy who dresses like a girl is not necessarily a girl, but they might be. The basis of transactivism is about respecting the "might be" part, whether the person dresses or not in a determined way is not how most trans people understand if someone (or themselves) is trans. When you end your video using "boy" and "girl" in a deterministic fashion, you are contributing to the confusion about the difference between sex and gender that you are supposedly trying to prevent. What did you mean by boy and girl at the end? Boy as in a biological male of a certain age, or boy as in the gender identity "boy/man"? You do not make it clear, even tho' that is the entire point of the video.
I was mostly on board until you claimed that people are trying to make gender an "immutable" (adjective - unchanging over time or unable to be changed.) trait and then listed people defining gender based on a persons choices and preferences, which can and often do change over time.
and then you go on to claim that those people are defining sex based on those choices. They aren't, they're defining gender, which, unlike sex, is mutable. The only reason that even seems to make sense is linguistic; sex and gender both use the terms male and female. So when someone claims that a biologically male child is female because of the gender roles they choose for themselves, they aren't attempting to redefine sex, they're labeling gender.
@@politicallynonbinary Female/male is reversed only for sex your gender is girl/boy or woman/man. The concept of "biologically" male/female makes no sense. There if no such thing as a transwomen who is female genderwise and definitely not sex wise in any capacity.
it's so confusing because both terms are used very interchangeably in daily life. when someone asks me what my gender is, aren't they just asking what sex/age category i belong to? i am an adult human female, so i recognize that i am a woman. if gender refers to sex stereotypes, then i don't want to say my ~gender~ is woman because the only thing i base my womanhood on is my biological sex, not cultural femininity or masculinity. since these terms are so conflated i usually take gender to be a humanization (for lack of a better term...) of sex categories which includes age, and gender identity to be equal to sex stereotypes. why do governments change sex on legal documents because of gender identity? what is with this push to change sex if it doesn’t equal gender? with no need for supporting documents, in ontario you can change your sex on your driver’s license to X which means “gender neutral” but the category is your sex. surgery is not required for sex designation (f or m) change either, so it is not based on biological sex even slightly. if sex is different from gender, why is sex being changed? i feel like meanings for both words change so dramatically depending on who you talk to.
Matsuri Mizusawa so are you saying sex and gender are different or not? your sex is female no matter what you feel. if the category is gender identity then whatever, say you’re nb. it doesn’t make sense to say nb as your sex.
Until very recently, they were simply synonyms. The same thing. That they were separate, one based on a feeling that can change, is a new definition from queer theorists.
I enjoyed this video, but I think you are making a mistake by accepting and advancing the idea that there exists some thing called "gender" that is distinct from sex. It seems to me that the thing you are labelling "gender" is nothing more than sex stereotypes, and your distinction between "descriptive" gender and "normative" gender is simply the distinction between identifying sex stereotypes and imposing sex stereotypes. When you suggest that we should separate expectations of how men and women should act from biological sex, I think all you are saying is that we should not be imposing negative judgements on people who do not conform to sex stereotypes, and that is well and good. But we do not need to appeal to some new concept "gender" in order to do that. Indeed, as even you go on to show, identifying these sex stereotypes as some thing called "gender" that is essential to a person's identity has precisely the same effect as imposing sex stereotypes, but in the opposite direction. Whereas embracing sex stereotypes results in the perception that, if you are a girl you should engage in behavior X, embracing this notion of "gender" results in the perception that, if you engage in behavior X, you are a girl. This is exactly why advocates of gender ideology would say, contrary to your usage, that the terms "boy/man" and "girl/woman" are gender categories, not sex categories. To achieve your goal, we need to understand that "gender" is an incoherent concept, does not refer to anything real, and has nothing to do with a person's personal identity. All people, regardless of sex, have many individual personality traits and behavioral tendencies that define their identity, and that while some of those characteristics may *tend* to be shared by others of one sex or the other, they are not definitional to what sex is or how members of a given sex should behave. And we do not need to invent a new concept called "gender" to make that argument.
Hey Zach. I appreciate your video and agree with everything halfway. I studied veterinary medicine and I have decent knowledge about how both human bodies and animal bodies work. I am transgender myself for 4+ years since 15. Sex and gender are separate concepts that relate to each other, they're not the exact thing but gender depends on sex. As a transgender person I don't deny the existence of biological sex, but neither do I deny the existence of gender dysphoria and transgender identity. I feel like you have good knowledge about biology but as soon as you started talking about gender you completely went off-road. Transgender people aren't told they're boys because they like trucks or girls because they like dolls (yes, there may be certain rare cases of such thing happening but that isn't for all the cases of trans kids). When I was 15 I realized I was trans and came out to my parents at 17, they freaked out. Being trans is much much more than just liking the activities, social roles of opposite sex, but also identifying as opposite sex and feeling mentally as such. Intersex conditions don't create a third sex, but they are very good proof of existence of gender, since someone can be born with female phenotypic genitalia but choose to live as male or don't feel like neither male and female and live as something in-between. Biological sex doesn't tell the entire story about someone's identity. Please learn more about this topic from unbiased places or learn from transgender people (there are tons of subreddits on Reddit). genderdysphoria.fyi explains it well too. Do your research, it's not hard.
Maybe we shouldnt categorize ppl by gender whatsoever. People can identify as whoever, whenever. Feel one way one second and another way the next. Dress like a woman tday and as a man tomorrow. Why not simply identify people by objective stds. Sex, race, age. Everything else can change at a whim.
5:00 thats a reactionary boogieman though. ive never heard a single story like this. as a trans woman i can say for sure its not just as easy as "oh im feminine i should be a girl"
This is the first of your videos I've watched, but I already get the feeling that you are presenting your points in good faith, unlike a lot of people in this discussion. If you don't mind me asking, what made you decide to jump into the minefield that is sex and gender? Now for the criticism: the statement at 5:12 is flat-out wrong. No girl has ever been told she is a boy based on her toy preferences, and vice versa. That might be taken as one aspect of a bigger picture, but a diagnosis of gender dysphoria would never be made on that basis alone. And the child is not just "told"; their input is sought at every stage of the process. The general rule for diagnosing gender dysphoria in children is that they must have been "persistent, insistent and consistent" in their cross-gender statements and behaviors. This would obviously require monitoring over several months at least.
Hi Daz, thanks for your comment! I've been interested in studying human psychology and understanding how biology and society influence our differences for a long time. I started really getting into the topics around 2017, and I've written two books on the scientific literature of sex differences. I come at this from a place of pure curiosity, and also wanting to help others. There's a lot of bad information out there and vitriol, so I want to have a positive effect on others and hopefully help them learn things in an engaging way. I started making these videos in 2020, since I felt like there was a need for clear animated videos on these topics. As for the criticism of 5:12, that is a common critique of this video. Nothing is wrong with someone transitioning to the opposite sex who is of age. Nothing wrong with people expressing themselves how they see fit. However, what I see wrong with the current diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria in children is that it relies on the child's discomfort with gender stereotypes and their body. These are both normal things for children to experience (especially during puberty), and many of them grow out of it. There's a tendency for parents and physicians to rely solely on the child's statements about what they 'feel' they are, instead of recognizing that they will likely grow out of the dysphoria. If they do not grow out of it, and if psychological help doesn't work, then transition should certainly be an option for them if they are an adult. The end of the video is focused on safeguarding kids and pointing out an important truth: that one can be okay with their body while still breaking down gendered norms. Thanks for the substantive feedback :)
@@zachelliott3076 Hi Zach. I only just saw you replied because UA-cam didn't notify me for some reason (thanks UA-cam...). I think puberty blockers are justified for children who meet the criteria (substantial long-term expression and display of cross-gender behaviors and statements, etc.). The reason for this is they allow time for a mature decision to be made, and they will mitigate an incredible degree of potential harm if the child turns out to be truly trans. Once you go through puberty, it's way more difficult to transition and pass (for MtF trans people especially). The chance of making the rest of their life easier outweighs the harm of a slightly delayed puberty if they decide they are not trans. One other thing - I've noticed most of your videos are about sex, but that's not the crux of the disagreement about trans people. Male/female are terms defined by scientific consensus, and so are not controversial or up for debate. But man/woman are defined by societal consensus, and this is where the impasse between the left and right lies. Conservatives (and TERFs) generally think that "woman" should mean "adult human female". But for progressives, it's a little fuzzier. Generally, they consider someone a woman if they identify as a woman and/or are recognized and treated by society as a woman. Thus, who is considered a woman can vary from one society to another. (Gender is, after all, a social construct.) Speaking descriptively, I think the progressive definition is more accurate, based on how the majority of people use the word. Most people would agree with the statement "Blaire White is a woman" (while still acknowledging that she is biologically male). It wouldn't make sense for someone referring to her to say "You see that guy over there? That's him." That would only cause confusion. So if you can resolve this disagreement over definitions, you will have solved the whole debate. It may be an impossible task though.
Daz no child should be put on the poison that is puberty blockers. We are stunting children’s growth and harming their natural development for absolutely no reason! No child is able to make such a permanent decision. It’s ridiculous. You can’t get tattoos until 19 but you can take a drug which causes irreversible effects to your body?? That’s insanity. These poor children are straight up being used as science experiments. We don’t even have the proper testing in animals to know the long term consequences of these drugs. Also teachers are being told to encourage kids that they might be the other gender if they like certain toys or clothes. Kids are being indoctrinated and it’s just sad
Daz Woman and man literally mean adult females and adult males respectively. Nothing more nothing less. There is nothing societal attached to them. Maybe the terms “lady” and “gentleman”. Also the trans movement is trying to erase/deny biological sex, say it is not binary and that transwomen are women whatever that means. JK Rowling is getting death threats for saying sex is real.
@@vevasika I would disagree we are erasing biological sex. In fact every actual trans movement I've seen has been educating people on sex. Paradox claims that sex is what gametes you produce and whether or not you have an SRY gene. The trans and inersex rights movements would say that is a part of what sex is but a narrow definition that pigin holes people who are very different wrongly in regards to humans. Nobody denises that gametes and the SRY gene exist and are a part (even a BIG part) of what sex is.
My 1979 "Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary Unabridged Second Edison - Deluxe Color" has 2 definitions for "Gender". #1 uses 22 lines to describe the Masculine, Feminine and Neuter nature of words in languages. Definition # 2 is just 1 line and 1 word = Sex. How is it that a newly hatched ideology is able to supersede logic and historical usage to arbitrarily demand that the words "Gender" and "Woman" no longer mean what they have meant for thousands of years? Reason does not work that way. The definition of a horse and buggy is not suddenly redefined to mean an automobile. A new category is coined to define the new addition. There is plenty of room for new categories and no need to rob old ones of their meaning.
Gender Dysphoria is basically distress from having a different sex and gender. Being trans means having a sex and gender that don't correspond. Not all trans people feel distress/dysphoria, but they still identify with a gender that doesn't correspond with their sex.
it doesn't matter, the concept of gender being separate from sex still exists and people dont belong in the same category as people just cuz of their same chromosomes and other things. That concept is true no matter WHAT word you use to refer to it, jesus christ
This totally overthrows meaning of Gender , Essentially in many other predominant languages such as Chinese , German , Hindi , etc Gender and S3x have the SAME WORD . If Simone de Beauvoir says one is not born but made a woman , then I can say if I was socialised as a woman even when I was born as a XY , I can call myself a woman . Liberating us from the terms of man and woman can cause ultimate confusion in the society
2:01 so on a friggin application , it should have a section where you are asked “what kind of toys you play ?????? “ my god your gender explanation would take any type of application from a 2 pager to a friggen 100 page job application to fill out. what’s wrong with you people ?
@@makeshift2105 how about instead of are you male or female ask: Do you pee sitting down or stand up? cause you can’t be both nor can you come up with any variations to answer that question
I'm not convinced boys wearing dresses is progressive. I understand girls and women wearing more "masculine" clothes, mainly because they're often utilitarian and comfortable. I also think most men can bear and perhaps even prefer independent and strong woman. I doubt though, that women like "feminised" men - and dresses are definitely feminising. Having said that though, people can do as they choose, obviously. When it comes to sex and gender, people can do what they like, but they cannot be what hey like.
Ugh, another video posing the gender issue dishonestly. Do you even know parents that force their kids into some gender? I mean, what is that about telling a boy they are girls because they dress with girl clothes. Like nobody is socialising their children that way. Also, NO ONE is claiming that sex can be changed. How is that a video acknowledges the existence of gender but also denies it at the same time?
Idk, kinda sounds a little strawmanny. People go through years of talking with specialists until they can transition. No one is walk into get gender affirming surgery willy nilly.
Why isn't gender entirely descriptive? "Gender Roles" is also a description. It appears only normative issues come up when you create/talk about the ethics first. Criticizing gender because it is capable of being influenced by society seems like neomarxist problems.
Gender is NOT a social construct this person is an id1ot . Many languages other than English have same world for s3x and gender . By saying we can liberate ourselves from woman and man , I can claim myself as a woman by socialising myself even though I was born a XY
Hi Fernando! Click the settings icon on the video player and click subtitles. You might have to click English first, and then a 'Auto-translate' option will be there. Then you can select Portuguese. Hope that helps. We also have transcripts on our website which you can copy and translate using a translation tool.
@@ParadoxInstitute auto generated subtitles and translate subtitles are often very bad and it would be a great service to any deaf people if you could subtitle your videos rather than letting autogenerate to it. (although your consistent and clean talking makes the auto-generate ones okay to watch)
I'm still confused, if a boy is defined as someone who displays mostly masculine traits, and a girl is defined as someone who displays mostly feminine traits, then why isnt a feminine boy a girl? or a masculine girl a boy?
It is only a paradox if you believe that people have or are a particular gender. More accurately people are (gendered or missgendered) Sex is biological. Gender are those Things (clothes, names, traits, bathrooms 🚻, strongly Associated with one sex or the other (binary). Therefore it is redundant to say a person is strongly Associated with their biological sex. Generally only people who wish to be strongly Associated with the opposite sex, seek to be Gendered (identify or misidentified).
I love this guys videos, but i disagree with this video. Sex and gender are the same. In this video, he mixed personality and beliefs and self-image with gender a word that means the same as sex.
The problem with the trans ideology that becomes in kids a escape from social and physical challenges for adolescence. Proof of this are autistic kids, that cannot relate or interact with a reciprocal relationship with any social group, they are victims of the black and white logic. If I not so much masculine, then I should feminine and viscera. The same issue might happen with non-autistic kids, even though in autism is were this phenomena or cult can be proven to be a consequence of social and self-stem contagion challenges that this kids have. When they adopt the trans ideology, they dont even understand the features of the opposite sex.
You had me right up till the end you sneaky content creator, you! The last part is simply fearmongering that is not what is occurring. This is a strawman and wholly unscientific.
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You can pretty much cut the video off at min 5. What is described here simply does not happen to any noticable degree. The very groups which advocate for trans rights are also the ones who advocate for more liberty when it comes to gender expression. Conversly, people who oppose Gender Transition are the ones who cling to antiquated normative gender roles. There might be fringe cases with abusive parents, but all in all, the way in which the last part is framed comes pretty close to Anti-Trans rhetoric. The last part wasn't technically wrong. If such a thing were to happen, it would be bad. No one needs to be told by others what their gender is, that much is clear. But why did you waste the last minute of your video condeming something that basically does not happen, instead of the very real thing where parents forbid children from expressing traits associated with the opposite sex? It is just kinda weird, I would be curious for your reply.
I can't believe it. 30 seconds in and he is already contradicting himself. You just defined sex by gametes only. So why exactly are you listing genitalia and all of these other things? Holy shit
Simone de Beauvoir was correct in saying that one is not born a woman, she becomes a woman. But, her mistake, like in this video, is that she implies a distinction between sex and gender. Humans are actually mammals with much of our behavior determined at conception. So, in actuality, the human is born a girl and becomes a woman, or is born a boy and becomes a man. Part of that "becoming" is puberty. If we actually eliminate the word "gender", then we are stuck with the more accurate understanding that genetics and biology along with culture and environment construct roles or expressions of the two sexes. It is hard to distinguish exactly what is from genetics and what is from culture. Perhaps clothing styles could be rooted solely in culture although environmental factors might also play a part. Sex roles or sex expression also connote sexual behavior, which is not so outrageous since evolution by natural selection requires this activity between the two sexes for procreation. To get away from this uncomfortable carnality we use the phrase "gender roles" rather than "sex roles". Postmodernism deconstructs sex-gender roles by focusing on the psychological and sociological implications. It ignores biology similar to Simone de Beauvoir but in a much more exaggerated and dual way. A form of body-psyche dualism is created similar to body-soul dualism found in Christianity. In the end, a whole new religious-like psyche world of Gender Spectrum.
"Gender" and "Sex" used to mean practically the same thing. "Gender" was used mostly to avoid sounding explicit because "sex" also meant f- king. However, "gender" has been given a new definition by the woke trans mob to also mean self-perception. In this sense, "gender" is reduced to a mere fantasy and not necessarily real. Thus, we can all reject anyone's self-perceived gender because that is just their fantasy. It's simply not true and no one has to play along with it.
Seems like every fact about the distinction went in one ear and out the other 🤣 Ironically your assertions about hard coded biology are in place of actual prescriptions (humanity tends to create concepts for society), which is just factually wrong on your part.
@@KatarinaBohtana Well, at least we agree that the foundation should be based on science. But, I really don't feel that I need to demonstrate anything to you. You can always put in your own independent comment to the video. Don't need to waste your time commenting on me.
I'm no biologist, so maybe this seems weird to ask, but why does 0:54 not destabilize the binary definition of sex? If not 100% of people fall into the binary definitions, why can it still be classified as binary?
Because those who doesn't are an exception, and exceptions are not the rule. DSDs exist, but they don't produce a new sex, it's simply a bug in the life code aka the DNA.
@@Synthetic_geth yeah, but exceptions in an otherwise binary structure do break the rule of it being binary imo, maybe I'm looking at it from a too mathematical point of view... You know the example with the white swan hypothesis? if you only ever see white swans, you'll make a rule, that every swan is white, if the 100'000th swan you see is suddenly black, that does indeed break the rule, you could make a new rule, that most swans are white, but the old rule is proven false. And saying, sex is binary doen't say, it's "mostly binary", what would that even mean? And isn't saying, DSD's are a bug in life kind of offensive to DSD's? Like, most people aren't you, are you now a bug in life?
@@Feds_the_Freds your swans example is very lame, swans are meant to be *either* white or black or any other color *swans* has in their genome code, so black is a valid case and not an exception, in the case of sex anything but male and female, is an exception, even in the computer world it's called "*exceptions and error handeling*" cuz they go out of the supposed-to-happen rule but something along the way went wrong, instead of trying to validate an exception, look for a solution. And no this generation has a single motive of "not offending", someone might have cancer, it's a bug in their cells, we won't lie to them and tell them they don't have cancer and let them live like nothing is wrong just to not *offend them* , risking their life in the process.
@@Synthetic_geth why lame? I want to genuinely understand it, as many scientists, who obviousely know more than me on this topic, see it that way that sex is binary and I just don't get it in the wake of apparent exceptions. Black would be an exception, if the rule would be called, that most swans are white. If the rule would be, that every swan is white, a black swan would cause an error, if you want to make that analogy. So errors and exceptions are different, right? errors shouldn't happen, exceptions can happen and are prepared for with a solution on what to do, errorson the other hand are just arrors and the code can't really do anything with it. So what are intersex people, are they errors, because the rule is, that everyone is either male or female, or are they exceptions, because the rule is that most people are either male or female and this is still classified as binary, because it's biology and not maths? I don't understand? Couldn't the cancer be fixed and at the same time it not be called a bug in the cells? ofc it is sometimes called a bug in the cells, but it can also just be viewed as something, that would kill the person, if it doesn't get fixed, that wouldn't happen with intersex people, as far as I'm aware. And a bug in the cells could theoretically be fixed (of course, cancer treatment isn't that far, as far as I know but still, theoretically, you can imagine it getting fixed), with intersex, how would that even look like? what is it a bug of? and how would a theoretical fix look like? But that aside, isn't that analogy even more offensive? As cancer is a sickness and as far as I'm aware, intersexness not. I could be wrong, I don't know enough on this topic, but either intersex people are sick, because they are intersex and something needs to be changed in their dna or it's not a sickness and the analogy doesn't really fit, as with cancer the one who has it, sees the cancer themself as a bug and wants to get rid of it.
@@Feds_the_Freds Not sure if you read Synthetic's first sentence in the previous reply, but the reply says: > swans are meant to be either white or black or any other color swans has in their genome code, so black is a valid case and not an exception, in the case of sex anything but male and female, is an exception also the only thing close to offensive that Synthetic said was "your swans example is very lame" but even that was just an opinion. No need to get upset Marco. We can have conversations without taking things personally.
I appreciate this video and many points made. I do have a difference of opinion concerning the separation of sex and gender. It's completely unnecessary and has provided fuel for those who deny the gender binary. Meanwhile, it's much more effective and aligned with reality to use the specific phrasing cited in this video "gender expectations" to describe the difference between biological gender and the societal expectations of one's biological gender. There's a thousand ways to express manhood and a thousand ways to express womanhood, but if we want a healthy functional society, we err very much to not have some gender expectations. For example, I don't find it regressive at all to insist a male child not wear a dress. While biology is not the whole of what an individual is, it's also not a meaningless thing, which is partly why the gender distinction should carry with it some societal gender expectation as well.
Biological sex is either male or female. Contrary to what is commonly believed, sex is defined not by chromosomes or our genitals or hormonal profiles, but by gametes, which are mature reproductive cells. There are only two types of gametes: small ones called sperm that are produced by males, and large ones called eggs that are produced by females. There are no intermediate types of gametes between egg and sperm cells. Sex is therefore binary. It is not a spectrum. Similar to sex, gender - both with regard to identity and expression - is biological. It is not a social construct, nor is it divorced from anatomy or sexual orientation. Despite what contemporary scholars may have you believe, all of these things are very much linked. Biology, not society, dictates whether we are gender-typical or atypical, the extent to which we identify as the sex we were born as, and the partners we are sexually attracted to. Anyone who brings in the phenomenon of 'intersex' to supposedly demonstrate that sex is non-binary has not fully understood it either. Intersex people are people born with a mix of what is masculine and feminine. But even intersex people can still be defined as male or female by checking which of his or her two genitals are active. If it produces sperm, it is a male. If she produces eggs, it is a female. It is biology, hate it or love it. Debra Soh. The End of Gender
@Josh the Art Critic This is like PragerU for TERFS with like one extra layer of credibility before we get to the ideological and logical falicies. Holy shit.
1. Do you not think you're putting words into the mouth of Simone de Beauvoir a little? 2. I dislike the framing that assumes that children are having this enforced onto them, because even under current practise these are seen as symptoms not as reasons. Children are not just put up for HRT if they happen to play with trucks or wear dresses, its a long and complicated procedure of checks to assertain whether this path is the best path for the child (and future adult). And if its not a long and rigourous process then the child has been failed in my eyes and the eyes of many who believe the same as me. 3. This ignores the slightly evidence lacking but very real possibility of internal brain sex/gender. That there is something in your brain that if its a certain way gives you gender dysphoria in some states, gender euphoria in others and gender aphoria in others still and that supposedly lines up in trans women - cis women and trans men - cis men. 4. I watched your other videos on your definition of sex which (TLDR) you define as [SRY gene status and gamete production]. Thats fine and all but does that not render sex a bit of a technicality and a little irrelevent in determining safety of various groups, as hormone composition and muscle pattern are far better indicators of peoples' relative threats to eachother and trans (gender+hrt) people corrolate with the sex/gender they are transitioning to? 5. This entirely ignores nonbinary (a purely gender phenomenon) social experiences. Sorry for the long comment I briefly wanted to touch on all my qualms. You make informative videos that even if I disagree with the messeging and the political push of them, the science is all correct. I wish you personally all the best. xx
@Josh the Art Critic "a sign"... I am going to assume thats a paraphrasing of "symptom" and the answer is yes and no. On its own it is just the kid is playing with friends of the opposite gender and thats fine. Paired with other symptoms, one of which would probably have to include continual identification with children of the opposite sex and self separation from children of the same sex. What actions children enguage in can be a great diagnostic tool and often times an ignored one and I know because I had a childhood psychologist look at me and basically just say "delayed development, a teaching assistant will do" without identifying the really obvious symptoms of various things, part of which included unusual play habits.
@Josh the Art Critic those do more yes. But never the less we live in a gendered society and if there were some kind of validity to the internal gender claim, how would it manifest? Well one of the ways it may manifest is in choices of clothings and toys. No?
@Josh the Art Critic I do understand why it feels like but every person I've met advocating for them is actually a gender abolitionist (part of which is the complete gettting rid of these stereotypes). The idea usually is that these "stereotypes" may be good for diagnosing people right now but in another (hopefully) couple of decades we'll be in a place where children can feel free enough to express themselves and this will no longer be a good heuristic. I would agree if the only thing a child has done is be a little gender-non-conforming then it would be abuse to transition them, but thats not whats going on by and large. Calling it an illness is wrong but think of it like a sneeze. It can be a sign of the common cold or a full on flu and only looking for other symptoms will let you know whether a hot chocolate or meds are the right thing to reach for. That being said conflating trans ness and viruses might be a bit of a sore note spot right now.
He is not putting words in Simone's mouth. The full quote is "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychic, or economic destiny defines the figure that the human female takes on in society; it is civilization as a whole that elaborates this intermediary product between the male and the eunuch that is called feminine".. And in the rest of the chapter she elaborates further on how the social role imposed on women is not natural, but is culturally constructed. If you read the book, it is clear that in the quote that she is using "becoming a woman" to mean how one conformes to a social feminine role that isn't natural.
@@minkz4097 wait I'll give the video a second watch if I'm wrong but that was *not* what I got from the video. In fact thats what I assume she meant as a feminist myself, that gender (and woman specifically) is socially constructed not a biological inalterable reality. What the video told me was literally the opposite which was why I thought they were twisting her words and putting new ones in her mouth.
@@makeshift2105 because trans people are not trans due to social stereotypes but rather due to internal identity and more often than not discomfort in their on sex.
But, how much biology influence the way you behavior? I mean, yes there are individual differences, but mainly, hormones and genes will tell what are you going to be. There's been proof that this is the reason most women prefer "girly" things and that is not a stereotype, it's a truth.
Yes, there are plenty of research studies which show average sex differences between boys and girls, men and women, on the population level. And hormones do play a large role in differentiating the sexes in behavior. Understanding the mix of how biology and society affect men and women depends on the trait being studied. Stereotypes are often true, and often do describe average differences, and at the same time, stereotypes can turn into caricatures and applied incorrectly to individuals.
Education is also very important. Education in boys and girls is very different. For example many boys are not allowed to cry and be weak, while girls are often allowed. Our early experiences are also important to determine who we are. I often think about the fact that much of our "male/female neuroscience" is absolutely useless, because if you study the difference of male and female brains in adults you will never know if it's a biological difference or if it's caused by differences in education. Studies on newborns would be more useful, and also studies about the influence of hormones on brain and behavior and studies about the effects of ALL the genes in X and Y chromosomes. This would be VERY useful.
yes this all makes sense. it doesn't erase the existence of trans people to recognise biological sex. I support trans people and I support realistic discussions about sex and gender.
Agreed! Trans people, like everyone else, should be able to live the life they choose. At the same time, we must protect the health of children who are still learning about their bodies. Transition is right for some people who are of age, but not everyone.
@@ParadoxInstitute i dont understand what you mean by protecting children. sex is important if youre at the doctors or something, but can you explain why sex is important to "protect children"? young children dont actually get to fully transition so its not like it would hurt any children to transition
@@HeadRedShot I mean, legally trans children are required to take puberty blockers until they reach the age of adulthood before they can begin HRT. The most harm the former can do is, well, delay puberty - if a child decides HRT is not for them, they can simply hop off the blockers with no ill effects. There can be cases of children actually taking HRT, but they're few and far between, honestly.
@@HeadRedShot puberty blockers can negatively affect bone density and joint health as well as IQ since puberty affects brain development. Also children on puberty blockers tend to be more suicidal. Little to no long term studies have been done. We're just experimenting on our kids when 80% of gender disphoric children develop to be content with their biological sex with no intervention. Major body modifications whether chemical otherwise should be held off until the person can decide for themselves as an adult.
@@austin3789 "haha 41%" well fun fact: the suicide statistics are based on discrimination. studies show that trans kids with accepting parents are way less likely to kill themself. trying to deny them treatment will not help at all with those statistics. also heres something you dont seem to understand. 20% is a massive fucking percentage. sure, 80% might live a flawless life, but dont you care about the other 20%?
www.phsa.ca/transcarebc/child-youth/affirmation-transition/medical-affirmation-transition/puberty-blockers-for-youth
proof for negative side effects are severely lacking, and short term effects show to be extremely minimal. rejecting people puberty blockers now until "long term" evidence is shown is incredibly irresponsible because there are people in severe need of it. if anything it would just be worse to reject people from getting puberty blockers because the 20% youre talking about might get breast cancer after top surgery. puberty blockers would remove that potential risk and tons of others.
I've been saying we need more info-rich, fact-based videos that are short and graphical and fun to watch. Your average person who is confused on these issues won't sit through an hour-long lecture on youtube, and people pushing gender ideology have a ton of humorous, light hearted, appealing videos pushing their narrative. I'm so happy to see a video that offers so much important information in a way that is easy and fun to digest. Thank you!
Before John Money, the nouns sex and gender were synonyms. Many people and check-lists on forms used the noun gender instead of sex so as not to bring in the verb sex (eg intercourse). Money created the terms gender identity etc. and Rothblatt, the Pritzker's, etc dumped millions of dollars to change the definition of the word gender to mean how one things about oneself in terms of being male or female. In other words, the noun gender was hijacked. Just look at an older dictionary, e.g., a public library. Thanks goodness I have one from 1975. Here's a video I created about this topic: ua-cam.com/video/v0J4WPurRBs/v-deo.html
Dude, you have no idea the mountains you are moving right now. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Thank you David!
I'm still trying to wrap my head around this difference. After reading Debra Soh, I was wondering, couldn't we simply replace the term gender with personality? The descriptive and normative sides influence your personality. I just feel when we talk about gender, people mean personality.
Well, think of a gender as a box and your personality might pick and choose what box you want to belong to, or even what diffrent boxes you belong to and that choise of choosing these boxes, what you refer to as personality is gender expression.
@@nathanjonsson6467 that's the stupidest think I've heard all day.
Because gender refers to a more societal virw
@@nathanjonsson6467 Personality is not gender expression lmao, personality is everything in life that shapes everything about you, not just one or two things, gender acvitists have completely turned personality into a shallow thing.
Yes, we could.
Absolutely, we should not be telling little children that they are boys or girls based on whether they like trucks or dolls. However, most trans people are not transgender because of gender.
There is something in all our brains that tells us we are one sex or the other. Then, at toddler age we learn that male is called boy and female is called girl, and we do something all girls and boys do: we self-gender-socialize with the gender associated with the sex we think we are. In the words of Simone de Beauvoir, it turns us into girls and boys. The only difference is in trans children that thing in our brain is reversed or indecisive.
That's.... not even remotely true.
There's no evidence of this.
very well done video. I love the "actual-factual" tone of it, without it being condescending. I also really like the animations. Very well done.
so basically
duh you say big words so you must be right
duuuuh pretty colors
@@sharktenko267 isn't that ALL media? What exactly are you even complaining about?
@@LuceroLucifer im complaining about you not understanding the bs being spouted by this moron
he literally has 0 clue what sex or gender are
@@sharktenko267 Please, enlighten us.
@@sharktenko267 can I see the video you made or the essay you wrote so I can understand your point of view, or are you just full of it and have no argument other than "you're wrong because I disagree"?
Brilliant videos. So glad you made these and keep up the good work. I really hope they are seen by a huge audience. I have been troubled lately by the amount of people in the public eye, particularly influential politicians and media types, and people online who claim that sex is a "spectrum" and/or does not exist and who are not aware of basic scientific facts. Well done! :-)
Concise and well put together. You are a great communicator.
This video deserves more views!
Also thanks for sharing your scientific references in the description :-)
Happy to find this channel, this is yet another great video. Your simple explanations are so needed today. thanks!
A brilliant series!
The unfathomable thing about this is that learning institutions, especially those as prestigious as most universities, should be impervious to the rantings and idiocies of ideologies. They instead choose to subscribe to those ideologies instead of embracing the facts and working to dispel the grossly flawed arguments of the ideologies.
Word is that woke people in Biden's administration is threatening schools with funding if they don't support the trans agenda.
In addition, those professors and teachers are LGBT+ too so it is also in their personal interest to further this ludicrous nonsense.
Finally, a lot of investment has been made to sex change drugs and procedures so hospitals and pharmaceutical companies want those investments to pay off.
As the Bible has said, "The love of money is the root of all evil".
I am a trans person and I for the most part agree with this video.
The idea I'm getting from this video is the idea of saying
"'You look and/or act like' the opposite sex, therefore you are"
is regressive and just enforces stereotypes
There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying Blaire White & Caitlyn Jenner, etc are men
and Buck Angel & Elliot Page are women.
Like why do the sexes have to have a specific look or temperament?
Sounds pretty stereotypical to me
I mostly value consistency so words such as
"male/female, he/she, boy/girl, and man/woman should continue to refer to the 2 sexes
rather than something as fickle as "gender" which is more of a masculine/feminine thing
But I also believe gender should stay in linguistics to refer to and arbitrarily categorize words
and not be used for human beings
I'm increasingly appreciating you, Zack, you're also cute ^-^
Haha thank you! We're currently working on a multi-part series on intersex. Each video in the series will cover a major intersex condition. Look forward to that--a lot of great info on the way!
@@ParadoxInstitute well you are cute.
I love the message of this video! Yes gender has a connection to biological sex however it is so much more subjective, whereas biological sex is so much more objective. Also we should be able to live with the knowledge that our interests or personality type doesn’t mean we are born in the “wrong body” that is regressive and sexist like you said! We should encourage people to love their bodies and be themselves fully at the same time! Its ok for us to acknowledge gender but not to define ourselves by gender! Also while we can make a connection with gender and sex we have to remember it’s still separate. Otherwise how can we make a connection in the first place if we haven’t already defined sex entirely on it’s own completely separate from the mind? There’s no way to make a connection if we haven’t already established a distinction beforehand. 😊 amazing video once again 👌👌
Sounds to me like the road to freedom is to take the word "gender " out of our vocabularies and keep "sex", for it's objective and everything else is personal preference that has nothing to do with "societal expectations".
Problem solved, no reason to walk in circles over this.
@Toon Disney Or that.
Before John Money, the nouns sex and gender were synonyms. Many people and check-lists on forms used the noun gender instead of sex so as not to bring in the verb sex (eg intercourse). Money created the terms gender identity etc. and Rothblatt, the Pritzker's, etc dumped millions of dollars to change the definition of the word gender to mean how one things about oneself in terms of being male or female. In other words, the noun gender was hijacked. Just look at an older dictionary, e.g., a public library. Thanks goodness I have one from 1975. Here's a video I created about this topic: ua-cam.com/video/v0J4WPurRBs/v-deo.html
I really like that you color coded everything so it was immediately obvious that whatever topic you were talking about was either related to biologic sex or gender.
I love this channel , I want to add that gender was born as a grammar thing to define masculine and feminine . English is a pretty genderless language but many languages have genders on any words , I’m from Italy so Italian is one example , anything is gendered , cause in Italian there is not just one article ( like in English that there is only “the “) , we have masculine article ( il ) singular , feminine singular ( la ) , masculine plural ( gli, I ) , feminine plurale ( le ) , all is gendered in languages like Italian , Spanish , French , Portuguese and many others . La sedia ( the chair ) has a feminine gender , of course a chair doesn’t have a sex . Sex is referred to biology and living things not to concepts or objects . In English though there is some gendered things , like for example , a tornado can have a gender , like the tornado Katrina or whatever it’s called with a feminine name , so she has a gender , still of course a tornado can’t have a sex . So sex is about animals , humans and in plants too in some cases , gender is about grammar . The word gender doesn’t apply in medicine or in biology but in grammar .
Before John Money, the nouns sex and gender were synonyms. Many people and check-lists on forms used the noun gender instead of sex so as not to bring in the verb sex (eg intercourse). Money created the terms gender identity etc. and Rothblatt, the Pritzker's, etc dumped millions of dollars to change the definition of the word gender to mean how one things about oneself in terms of being male or female. In other words, the noun gender was hijacked. Just look at an older dictionary, e.g., a public library. Thanks goodness I have one from 1975. Here's a video I created about this topic: ua-cam.com/video/v0J4WPurRBs/v-deo.html
I had just read that when kids who stated they were the opposite gender, historically, would grow up to be gay.
I think this was overall a good video but for around the last two minutes I got some strong PragerU vibes. I'm pretty sure there is no evidence that it is a significant issue that boys (biogical men) are told theyre girls (biological women) because they dont conform to gender stereotypes and vice versa. Very often people of a certain gender dont conform to the stereotypes associated with their gender. But in that case, almost no parent then instantly thinks "well theyre the different sex" or "well theyre the different gender". Most transgenders and transsexuals come out to their environment themselves (of course you cant change your sex yet but say that you want to be treated as it) and then their parents or if theyre old enough they themselves maybe decide to socially and legally transition.
Now a response to the conclusion: Yes, your gender expression is not able to change your sex. However, because gender is a matter of identity, and we cant read others thoughts to see what theyre truly thinking, by saying you are certain gender makes you that gender, no matter what gender stereotypes apply to you. There are probably many trans women with a masculine gender expression or trans men with a feminine gender expression. Again the issue you described in the last two minutes isnt something you observe from your environment. Rather the contrary, states (such as Alabama recently) denying trans youth the means to transition is much more common and should therefore be talked about way more in this video.
It just seems like you are a well researched biologist, who then was paid to fit in a little bit of political agenda at the end. Please dont delete this comment ;)
Huh
@@phr3ui559 Have you already applied to do Lil Pump adlibs seems like you would be pretty good at it
Sunyl I was basically asking for a tldr
Sunyl lil pump is a dead meme
@@phr3ui559 I know, but when I read your comment my brain instantly made it sound like a lil pump adlib
But the gender issue is more linked to the issue of how many genders there are. Trans people feel they should be the opposite sex. Obviously they aren’t. But some people believe that there are multiple genders, so are there?? If gender is so different from sex, can there be a 3rd gender while there still being 2 sexes?
For the ones confused as to why gender is not just abolished because it just reinforces stereotypes, my take on it is that its simply because it helps us understand how certain groups of people are treated within society, kind of like how race works, race is a social construct as well and needs to be abolished but if you abolish it, it makes it hard to understand how different groups of people are treated within society so unless, gender equality is reached same goes to racial equality they can't be abolished or rather shouldn't. And before someone tells "well that is just asking too much", you are forgetting to take into account that for the vast majority of human existance race and gender have not been a thing and thus were not used as tools to oppress groups of people, and humans are not born racist or sexist rather they are products of our society.
I'm still undecided about this whole separation of sex and gender into two completely separate concepts because sex do affect behaviour and preferences to a large extent.
As long as man and women is still regulated to being a male and female idk. A T women is male therefore they are a man, opposite for t men.
Faxs
The problem with this video is that it’s not a common thing to tell a child they’re trans and should transition because they break gender stereotypes.
It’s not common yet but there are groups trying to normalise this response, such as through promoting sex education that teaches about gender identity and putting pressure in schools to support children transitioning. Groups like Mermaids in the UK for example.
@@pseudonamed ~ And what is wrong with transitioning?
Referrals to gender clinics have skyrocketed in the past 3 or 4 years. Especially for young girls.
@@Corvid_Moon Mutilation of healthy body parts, infertility, loss of BMD, can cause inability to reach orgasm, higher risk of cancer, life-long medicalization. And it's irreversible.
Children cannot consent to major permanent cosmetic surgery.
The video was great until you affirmation that people are telling tomboys they are boys. What is your source to say such thing?
see their sex is still not a boy but gender is boy cause they act like the stereotypical boy.
@@niharika3280 I see but there is a difference as act like what we know as boy manners and being a transgender person.
What was said here (or at least what I understood of) is that now we are encouraging children's to transition by just acting like a tomboy.
What you think?
@@kakuynaraque2 wel no there is difference between being a Tom boy and being a boy boy
@@niharika3280 that is what I am saying. And that is the opposite of what the video make us believe people are understanding now.
@@kakuynaraque2 "I see but there is a difference as act like what we know as boy manners and being a transgender person"
what exactly is that difference? I am asking because I honestly do not understand how assessing a gender is done objectively.
Agree. Great video as usual! I have been binge watching this channel all day today! I love your content! ♥
"Gender" and "Sex" used to mean practically the same thing. The only time "gender" was used exclusively is in Social Studies to connote masculine and feminine roles which are still attributed to sex. "Gender" was used mostly to avoid sounding explicit because "sex" also meant f- king.
However, "gender" has now been warped by the woke mob to also mean self-perception. In this sense, "gender" is reduced to a mere fantasy and not real.
Thus, we can all reject anyone's self-perceived gender because that is just their fantasy. It's not necessarily true. This is also why those woke trans freaks avoid equating "gender" and "sex" because "sex" is a verifiable truth: men have a penis, women have a vagina. A man who claims to be a woman is LYING.
Very level, kind and sane. Thank you.
Really great analysis of what is happening now! Thank you for a perfectly sane and intelligent discussion . It is so needed now!
omg everybody in the world needs to see this !
At BEST "gender" is just a synonym for "the stereotypes of one of the sexes".
At WORST (and the way it's commonly used, today) it's just murky, vaguely-defined mess of near-meaningless, somewhere between "a mood", "a vibe", and something comparable to "sub-cultures" like "goths", "scene kids", "jocks", etc.
"Gender" only has ANY real meaning, if it's inherently linked with sex.
But if REMOVED from it's connection with sex, how is "gender" anything except a pointless set of constraints, who's only really purpose is to enforce social norms?
The mental gymnastics needed, to think that a society who cares about "gender", but essentially denies/ignores sex, is somehow a GOOD thing, are just baffling to me.
Great explanation.
Exactly!
Agree 💯
"Gender" and "Sex" used to mean practically the same thing. "Gender" was used mostly to avoid sounding explicit because "sex" also meant f- king.
However, "gender" has been given a new definition by the woke trans mob to also mean self-perception. In this sense, "gender" is reduced to a mere fantasy and not necessarily real.
Thus, we can all reject anyone's self-perceived gender because that is just their fantasy. It's simply not true and no one has to play along with it. This is also why those woke trans freaks avoid equating "gender" and "sex" because "sex" is a verifiable truth: men have a penis, women have a vagina. A man who claims to be a woman is LYING.
exactly!!
@@mocabe01 You seem to completely strawman the "woke trans mob" considering you clearly did not watch this video, as gender is defined as simply as it can be lol
I agree with most of this, but it feels weird to say that any trans person would say that gender expression is an indicator of sex, or that people are saying boys should transition and become trans just because they don't like trucks, or any other stereotypically masculine thing.
Im getting low key anti trans vibes from this chanel
Thats not what he is saying. Being trans is atypical trait most people who are "trans" have a what you would say gender dysphoria but they are still male or female. Being trans is a social thing not a literal one, a man cannot become a women and vice versa. Whether you like blue/pink, dolls/trucks doesnt mean shit for trans because of the dysphoria but they are still literally a male or female who is socially living as a "woman"/"man" but not literally.
@@younggod5230 good.
Unfortunately the normative dimension influences the descriptive reality heavily. Also read up on Gina Rupon! She wrote ''The Gendered Brain'', which discusses how the small differences we find in male versus female brains, plus the general differences in behavior, are not a product of biology, but rather a product of socialization from an incredibly early age. She discusses how our brains are much more mallable than is assumed, also by scholars, and how many scholars are still searching for the existence of a ''gendered brain'' that doesn't exist. Not to mention that the diversity in traits and behavior within male and females is much greater than the diversity between them, even living in societies that impose extremely different socialization and expectations based on your sex. Plus gender ideas and expectations differ between cultures. E.g. in Turkey most hairdressers are men, it's seen as a male job, whereas in the West it's generally seen as a female job.
That’s nurture vs nature. In the end it can’t adequately explain why the sexes were socialized the way they are because it doesn’t acknowledge they have any biological, objective basis by which the society then organized labour, social roles, etc around.
not all boys and girsl aren't "told" that they are the opposite gender/sex, they often say it themselves. which is not to say that this makes them right, but that it's more complicated than them being told. they reach these conclusions themselves, and that is even more insidious.
They can be told in many ways. Not just literally. And jump in conclusions. The choice to be defined in what others expect.
@@richterdelgan123 These evaluations can take years like with autism diagnosises, its not as simple as i played with a truck, give me hormones!
I don't know why conservatives believe people are forcing kids to transition. It is insanely difficult for a child to even be allowed to transition because they typically need to have notes from a therapist, permission from parents, and even then the medical staff might just postpone the treatments for no good reason. And if a child is at all unhappy with being treated as a different gender (meaning they are cis) then it will be very obvious after going through all that trouble. But if a child is trans and they are given the treatment they want or need (like being called a different name or pronouns, wearing different clothes, or medically transitioning) then it will be clear because of their gender euphoria. so, yes, masculine girls and feminine boys do exist, but the distinction between them and trans/nonconforming children is obvious and the trans kids need to be treated how they want to be treated
At what point did this video mention conservatives that prompted this comment?
@@carlospomares3225 it is pretty obvious the guy making the video is conservative.
@@duffmann2021 "it's pretty obvious" is not a helpful answer.
@@carlospomares3225 if you read the full comment it is helpful. You thought the video mentioned conservative rather it has conservative undertones.
I have enjoyed these videos so far, but at 5:00 it kind of jumps the shark for me. It gives the impression that children everywhere are being categorized as gender opposite their biological sex. This section lacks nuance, or just feels really thin in comparison to the rest of the videos. Should it be it’s own video where it’s not rushed through? It comes across as fear mongering, instead of talking about the issue from a scientific perspective.
That's called a mask slip, which is when someone says or does something that reveals their real character or intentions. I've seen a few of their other videos, and it seems they always leave out crucial information. This video, for instance, doesn't mention that gender identity and gender expression are different things.
@@NickyTannock What is the difference between Gender Identity and Gender Expression? Why would someone not express their identity?Why would someone express themselves differently from what they actually are?
@@abdullahkuzhan7247 "What is the difference between Gender Identity and Gender Expression?"
Gender identity is the gendered aspect of a person's mental body map (areas of the brain responsible for self-perception and body ownership).
Gender expression is how a person expresses their gender through interests, clothing, mannerisms, etc.
The difference between them is that one is internal, while the other is external.
"Why would someone not express their identity?"
I can't speak for others on this point but, in my case, it took me decades to come out to myself and others because of a deep fear of upsetting people and losing the ones I care about.
"Why would someone express themselves differently from what they actually are?"
If by "actually are", you mean what they physically are, it's because this minimises the discomfort of mismatched gender identity. I know that, for me, noticing my sex is like being smacked in the face with a funhouse mirror (one of those curvy mirrors that creates a distorted image).
i began watching with a fear it would end up with "hurrr they are the saaaaame" but no. it repeats pretty much what i have been saying for a long time. And i am a progressive.
wtf. it's objectively different concepts. it's like saying intensity and tension are the same, which they are not.@Toon Disney
Thank you so much for this video. It was shared on a women focused platform Spinster.
This made so much sense way easier to understand than my sociology class lmao
I sort of disagree on a few of the terms on gender, but overall I would say I agree with everything stated. Now what confuses me is the debate on things like the bathroom, and sports why are we having this conversation if we know Sex is about pretty much biology. Males should use the Male Bathroom not the Female bathroom, same with sports.
Well, trans people are uncomfortable using their sex's toilets. Also, why do we need to separate toilets by sex, is it because of rape? I understand that cis females often feel uncomfortable with having biological males in their toilets, however, this actually applies to biological females who look masculine, which can happen when trans males take hormones. Also, trans females who have gotten puberty blockers can look female.
I reckon the only way to accomodate trans females and non-binary people is to have unisex toilets. They shouldn't replace sex-segregated toilets though, because we still need those for cis females.
Also, we need male toilets to prevent unisex toilets from being seen as male toilets.
This will be really useful. You wouldn't believe how many people used an argument that a kid is trans because he/she prefers playing with opposite toys. Hell, i liked ponies when i was a boy and i'm so glad my parents were not regressive lefties that would transition me after noticing that!
"Gender" just means type or kind. It needn't have *anything* to do with sex, but is just a matter of categorization, which can be as arbitrary as we want. Until recently the term was used nearly exclusively in English to refer to language characteristics of nouns and their modifiers.
More people should watch this
You are confusing personality with gender.
As a trans woman who has always been a tomboy, gender roles and gender itself are a LOT more complicated than they're presented. Tomboys aren't boys, and femboys aren't girls...and trans people won't try to force them to be. But we also won't tell them they can't be.
They can’t be. You can’t change your biology.
In what ways are gender roles and gender itself "more complicated than they're presented"? I'm baffled by what you've said here tbh. But I'm genuinely curious about this.
@@DiogenesNephew So, like I said to start: I'm a tomboy. That's a girl who dresses and behaves in a masculine manner. But I'm also trans, which means I'm a girl who was born physiologically male. Inversely I have a friend who is a trans man, but also a femboy.
There's also people whose gender presentation is nonbinary, who don't present as either male or female, and some who present as some combination of both. And people who were born with a combination of both male and female physiology, or a lack of either trait. And then there's gender itself which has the same combinations that physiology does, but in the mind.
In short: Gender identity can be male, female, both, or neither. Physiology can be male, female, both, or neither. And Gender Presentation can be male, female, both, or neither. And none of the three have to match. (Just assuming that each of the 4 options is a hard tick, and not the spectrum they are, there's 64 basic combinations).
It's not true to say that boys are "being told that they are girls". Nobody is telling kids to transition. People know in themselves who they are. And you're massively oversimplifying. There is a difference between people who are in some ways gender non-conforming but happy with their biological sex, and those who feel that the only way they can be happy is to live fully and to be accepted as the opposite sex.
Alot of ppl dont know who they are and some people change who they are as often as people change their clothes
So there are only two genders then? Me personally think all we need is sex not gender, if a girl acts like a boy she's a tomboy and if a boy acts like a girl his a Tomgirl.
That's just their personality but their sex is stil either male or female.
Gender is based upon biological sex and certain behaviors which tend to be correlated with them. However, the particular norms, roles, stereotypes, or other features that go into the gender "boxes" vary by culture, place, and time. Realistically speaking, there are multiple "flavors" of man and woman through culture, place, and time, sort of like "chocolate" and "vanilla": in one context they may "taste" differently than another. In other words, what's in the man box in one context is not what's in the man box in another context. Some societies have boxes other than man and woman, and those tend to be reserved for social members who do not conform to what's expected of them in the man and woman boxes of their own societies. Generally speaking, those other boxes are stigmatized and aren't generally thought of as "good". They are seen as defective or unusual and the other boxes are created as a compromise which allows them to still participate in their societies. Sometimes they have to do with pure economics. I.e., in some cultures, when two men love and live together, one becomes the "wife" not because he is trans of any sort, but because one person needs to do the "womanly" duties so that the household survives! Another way of looking at it is that many cultures have a concept of "shirt" but the style of shirt in each culture varies. I'd say that a reasonably accurate thing to say is that there are two biological sexes, with a range of phenotypical distributions, and a great many genders, which do cluster around "man" and "woman" but vary greatly by culture, place, and time.
@@Nemo_Anom still doesn't provide that their is more then two genders, we are in the English speaking world and from our history there was no other option in sex.
Just because other cultures had/has a 3rd gender doesn't mean there is one.
What you just talk about is personality not gender.
sex do change over time but still keep the key parts like woman gives birth and man protect and provide.
@@blunelson8226 No, they're conceptualized as genders. You could say that, in the modern western world, there is only two genders. I'd more or less agree with you, but point out that it can always change, and does seem to be so.
Very good video! To the point, objective, relevant, cool.
Helps a lot too, that the speaker (Zach) is such an eye candy. 😍
I really wish these were good videos, but they aren't informative at all. They are manipulative instead. You begin every video with an serious and "honest" outlook on the scientific debate, but then you usually end them with an obviously political and ideological argument based on nothing at all.
While this could be a good video about how sex and gender are currently defined and discussed, it instead preys on people fear that the "trans" are "telling kids they are trans too". You provide no proof or evidence that it is common for children to be defined trans by their parents because of toys or clothes they like, but you make it sound like a very dangerous problem on current society. You also frequently use transphobic authors as sources even when non-transphobic authors could be used to say the same things. In one video you even use "gender theorists" as a synonymous term to phony scientists, when many serious scientists discuss gender nowadays.
It is no surprise that, while you supposedly "respect" trans people, your comment section is often filled with transphobes who are here to gather arguments in order to attack gender identity advocates and trans people. If this is on accident, which I doubt, I would ask you to really rethink your sources as well as your main concerns, or at least take your time to better position yourself on these matters. Trans people are not choosing to be trans. You may discuss that hormonization is a choice (which of course it is) just as taking any kind of medical treatment is a choice, but choosing to call yourself "boy" or "girl" goes way beyond the basic biological discussion you keep stating your videos are about.
A boy who dresses like a girl is not necessarily a girl, but they might be. The basis of transactivism is about respecting the "might be" part, whether the person dresses or not in a determined way is not how most trans people understand if someone (or themselves) is trans. When you end your video using "boy" and "girl" in a deterministic fashion, you are contributing to the confusion about the difference between sex and gender that you are supposedly trying to prevent. What did you mean by boy and girl at the end? Boy as in a biological male of a certain age, or boy as in the gender identity "boy/man"? You do not make it clear, even tho' that is the entire point of the video.
I was mostly on board until you claimed that people are trying to make gender an "immutable" (adjective
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unchanging over time or unable to be changed.) trait and then listed people defining gender based on a persons choices and preferences, which can and often do change over time.
and then you go on to claim that those people are defining sex based on those choices. They aren't, they're defining gender, which, unlike sex, is mutable. The only reason that even seems to make sense is linguistic; sex and gender both use the terms male and female. So when someone claims that a biologically male child is female because of the gender roles they choose for themselves, they aren't attempting to redefine sex, they're labeling gender.
@@politicallynonbinary thank you. this is everything i thought summarized very nicely
@@politicallynonbinary Female/male is reversed only for sex your gender is girl/boy or woman/man. The concept of "biologically" male/female makes no sense. There if no such thing as a transwomen who is female genderwise and definitely not sex wise in any capacity.
it's so confusing because both terms are used very interchangeably in daily life. when someone asks me what my gender is, aren't they just asking what sex/age category i belong to? i am an adult human female, so i recognize that i am a woman. if gender refers to sex stereotypes, then i don't want to say my ~gender~ is woman because the only thing i base my womanhood on is my biological sex, not cultural femininity or masculinity. since these terms are so conflated i usually take gender to be a humanization (for lack of a better term...) of sex categories which includes age, and gender identity to be equal to sex stereotypes.
why do governments change sex on legal documents because of gender identity? what is with this push to change sex if it doesn’t equal gender? with no need for supporting documents, in ontario you can change your sex on your driver’s license to X which means “gender neutral” but the category is your sex. surgery is not required for sex designation (f or m) change either, so it is not based on biological sex even slightly. if sex is different from gender, why is sex being changed? i feel like meanings for both words change so dramatically depending on who you talk to.
if im non binary, why would i say i am female then? that just makes no sense, especially since sex is only relevant for medical purposes
Matsuri Mizusawa so are you saying sex and gender are different or not? your sex is female no matter what you feel. if the category is gender identity then whatever, say you’re nb. it doesn’t make sense to say nb as your sex.
@@vireo4329 but in what occasion would you say "my sex is" other than at a doctors appointment?
It has been made confusing on purpose.
You can't reject someone's claims if they never properly define their terms.
@@HeadRedShot You don't, you say "I'm a man/woman", that covers the sex.
Until very recently, they were simply synonyms. The same thing. That they were separate, one based on a feeling that can change, is a new definition from queer theorists.
5:13 how can you say they are told? One can like trucks and say “I’m still a girl”, could it not be their own volition
I enjoyed this video, but I think you are making a mistake by accepting and advancing the idea that there exists some thing called "gender" that is distinct from sex. It seems to me that the thing you are labelling "gender" is nothing more than sex stereotypes, and your distinction between "descriptive" gender and "normative" gender is simply the distinction between identifying sex stereotypes and imposing sex stereotypes. When you suggest that we should separate expectations of how men and women should act from biological sex, I think all you are saying is that we should not be imposing negative judgements on people who do not conform to sex stereotypes, and that is well and good. But we do not need to appeal to some new concept "gender" in order to do that. Indeed, as even you go on to show, identifying these sex stereotypes as some thing called "gender" that is essential to a person's identity has precisely the same effect as imposing sex stereotypes, but in the opposite direction. Whereas embracing sex stereotypes results in the perception that, if you are a girl you should engage in behavior X, embracing this notion of "gender" results in the perception that, if you engage in behavior X, you are a girl. This is exactly why advocates of gender ideology would say, contrary to your usage, that the terms "boy/man" and "girl/woman" are gender categories, not sex categories.
To achieve your goal, we need to understand that "gender" is an incoherent concept, does not refer to anything real, and has nothing to do with a person's personal identity. All people, regardless of sex, have many individual personality traits and behavioral tendencies that define their identity, and that while some of those characteristics may *tend* to be shared by others of one sex or the other, they are not definitional to what sex is or how members of a given sex should behave. And we do not need to invent a new concept called "gender" to make that argument.
Hey Zach. I appreciate your video and agree with everything halfway. I studied veterinary medicine and I have decent knowledge about how both human bodies and animal bodies work. I am transgender myself for 4+ years since 15. Sex and gender are separate concepts that relate to each other, they're not the exact thing but gender depends on sex. As a transgender person I don't deny the existence of biological sex, but neither do I deny the existence of gender dysphoria and transgender identity. I feel like you have good knowledge about biology but as soon as you started talking about gender you completely went off-road. Transgender people aren't told they're boys because they like trucks or girls because they like dolls (yes, there may be certain rare cases of such thing happening but that isn't for all the cases of trans kids). When I was 15 I realized I was trans and came out to my parents at 17, they freaked out. Being trans is much much more than just liking the activities, social roles of opposite sex, but also identifying as opposite sex and feeling mentally as such. Intersex conditions don't create a third sex, but they are very good proof of existence of gender, since someone can be born with female phenotypic genitalia but choose to live as male or don't feel like neither male and female and live as something in-between. Biological sex doesn't tell the entire story about someone's identity. Please learn more about this topic from unbiased places or learn from transgender people (there are tons of subreddits on Reddit). genderdysphoria.fyi explains it well too. Do your research, it's not hard.
Maybe we shouldnt categorize ppl by gender whatsoever. People can identify as whoever, whenever. Feel one way one second and another way the next. Dress like a woman tday and as a man tomorrow. Why not simply identify people by objective stds. Sex, race, age. Everything else can change at a whim.
5:00 thats a reactionary boogieman though. ive never heard a single story like this. as a trans woman i can say for sure its not just as easy as "oh im feminine i should be a girl"
This is the first of your videos I've watched, but I already get the feeling that you are presenting your points in good faith, unlike a lot of people in this discussion. If you don't mind me asking, what made you decide to jump into the minefield that is sex and gender?
Now for the criticism: the statement at 5:12 is flat-out wrong. No girl has ever been told she is a boy based on her toy preferences, and vice versa. That might be taken as one aspect of a bigger picture, but a diagnosis of gender dysphoria would never be made on that basis alone. And the child is not just "told"; their input is sought at every stage of the process. The general rule for diagnosing gender dysphoria in children is that they must have been "persistent, insistent and consistent" in their cross-gender statements and behaviors. This would obviously require monitoring over several months at least.
Hi Daz, thanks for your comment! I've been interested in studying human psychology and understanding how biology and society influence our differences for a long time. I started really getting into the topics around 2017, and I've written two books on the scientific literature of sex differences. I come at this from a place of pure curiosity, and also wanting to help others. There's a lot of bad information out there and vitriol, so I want to have a positive effect on others and hopefully help them learn things in an engaging way. I started making these videos in 2020, since I felt like there was a need for clear animated videos on these topics.
As for the criticism of 5:12, that is a common critique of this video. Nothing is wrong with someone transitioning to the opposite sex who is of age. Nothing wrong with people expressing themselves how they see fit. However, what I see wrong with the current diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria in children is that it relies on the child's discomfort with gender stereotypes and their body. These are both normal things for children to experience (especially during puberty), and many of them grow out of it. There's a tendency for parents and physicians to rely solely on the child's statements about what they 'feel' they are, instead of recognizing that they will likely grow out of the dysphoria. If they do not grow out of it, and if psychological help doesn't work, then transition should certainly be an option for them if they are an adult.
The end of the video is focused on safeguarding kids and pointing out an important truth: that one can be okay with their body while still breaking down gendered norms.
Thanks for the substantive feedback :)
@@zachelliott3076 Hi Zach. I only just saw you replied because UA-cam didn't notify me for some reason (thanks UA-cam...).
I think puberty blockers are justified for children who meet the criteria (substantial long-term expression and display of cross-gender behaviors and statements, etc.). The reason for this is they allow time for a mature decision to be made, and they will mitigate an incredible degree of potential harm if the child turns out to be truly trans. Once you go through puberty, it's way more difficult to transition and pass (for MtF trans people especially). The chance of making the rest of their life easier outweighs the harm of a slightly delayed puberty if they decide they are not trans.
One other thing - I've noticed most of your videos are about sex, but that's not the crux of the disagreement about trans people. Male/female are terms defined by scientific consensus, and so are not controversial or up for debate. But man/woman are defined by societal consensus, and this is where the impasse between the left and right lies.
Conservatives (and TERFs) generally think that "woman" should mean "adult human female". But for progressives, it's a little fuzzier. Generally, they consider someone a woman if they identify as a woman and/or are recognized and treated by society as a woman. Thus, who is considered a woman can vary from one society to another. (Gender is, after all, a social construct.)
Speaking descriptively, I think the progressive definition is more accurate, based on how the majority of people use the word. Most people would agree with the statement "Blaire White is a woman" (while still acknowledging that she is biologically male). It wouldn't make sense for someone referring to her to say "You see that guy over there? That's him." That would only cause confusion.
So if you can resolve this disagreement over definitions, you will have solved the whole debate. It may be an impossible task though.
Daz no child should be put on the poison that is puberty blockers. We are stunting children’s growth and harming their natural development for absolutely no reason! No child is able to make such a permanent decision. It’s ridiculous. You can’t get tattoos until 19 but you can take a drug which causes irreversible effects to your body?? That’s insanity. These poor children are straight up being used as science experiments. We don’t even have the proper testing in animals to know the long term consequences of these drugs. Also teachers are being told to encourage kids that they might be the other gender if they like certain toys or clothes. Kids are being indoctrinated and it’s just sad
Daz Woman and man literally mean adult females and adult males respectively. Nothing more nothing less. There is nothing societal attached to them. Maybe the terms “lady” and “gentleman”. Also the trans movement is trying to erase/deny biological sex, say it is not binary and that transwomen are women whatever that means. JK Rowling is getting death threats for saying sex is real.
@@vevasika I would disagree we are erasing biological sex. In fact every actual trans movement I've seen has been educating people on sex. Paradox claims that sex is what gametes you produce and whether or not you have an SRY gene. The trans and inersex rights movements would say that is a part of what sex is but a narrow definition that pigin holes people who are very different wrongly in regards to humans. Nobody denises that gametes and the SRY gene exist and are a part (even a BIG part) of what sex is.
My 1979 "Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary Unabridged Second Edison - Deluxe Color" has 2 definitions for "Gender". #1 uses 22 lines to describe the Masculine, Feminine and Neuter nature of words in languages. Definition # 2 is just 1 line and 1 word = Sex. How is it that a newly hatched ideology is able to supersede logic and historical usage to arbitrarily demand that the words "Gender" and "Woman" no longer mean what they have meant for thousands of years? Reason does not work that way. The definition of a horse and buggy is not suddenly redefined to mean an automobile. A new category is coined to define the new addition. There is plenty of room for new categories and no need to rob old ones of their meaning.
Heyyy anyone explain to me the difference between gender dysphoria and transgenderism?
Gender Dysphoria is basically distress from having a different sex and gender. Being trans means having a sex and gender that don't correspond. Not all trans people feel distress/dysphoria, but they still identify with a gender that doesn't correspond with their sex.
@@jennyfrisby7654 If you dont have dysphoria you are not trans
such a wonderful video. No words to express the efforts you have put in.
it doesn't matter, the concept of gender being separate from sex still exists and people dont belong in the same category as people just cuz of their same chromosomes and other things.
That concept is true no matter WHAT word you use to refer to it, jesus christ
This totally overthrows meaning of Gender , Essentially in many other predominant languages such as Chinese , German , Hindi , etc Gender and S3x have the SAME WORD .
If Simone de Beauvoir says one is not born but made a woman , then I can say if I was socialised as a woman even when I was born as a XY , I can call myself a woman .
Liberating us from the terms of man and woman can cause ultimate confusion in the society
it's only confusion if you care too much.
2:01 so on a friggin application , it should have a section where you are asked “what kind of toys you play ?????? “ my god your gender explanation would take any type of application from a 2 pager to a friggen 100 page job application to fill out.
what’s wrong with you people ?
@@makeshift2105 how about instead of are you male or female ask: Do you pee sitting down or stand up? cause you can’t be both nor can you come up with any variations to answer that question
So you are suggesting as far as gender is concerned, no one should be identified by their gender
Thank you so much for this video ❤️❤️
I really appreciate this content
I'm not convinced boys wearing dresses is progressive. I understand girls and women wearing more "masculine" clothes, mainly because they're often utilitarian and comfortable. I also think most men can bear and perhaps even prefer independent and strong woman. I doubt though, that women like "feminised" men - and dresses are definitely feminising. Having said that though, people can do as they choose, obviously.
When it comes to sex and gender, people can do what they like, but they cannot be what hey like.
Ok gender is acknowledged here, got it.
Ugh, another video posing the gender issue dishonestly. Do you even know parents that force their kids into some gender? I mean, what is that about telling a boy they are girls because they dress with girl clothes. Like nobody is socialising their children that way. Also, NO ONE is claiming that sex can be changed. How is that a video acknowledges the existence of gender but also denies it at the same time?
Couldn't we just be girly boys and boyish girls without trying to force a change in biology?
Idk, kinda sounds a little strawmanny. People go through years of talking with specialists until they can transition. No one is walk into get gender affirming surgery willy nilly.
Not even remotely true
@@friedchicken4735 And how do you know? Are you transgender? Are you currently going through gender-affirming surgery willy-nilly?
Why isn't gender entirely descriptive?
"Gender Roles" is also a description.
It appears only normative issues come up when you create/talk about the ethics first.
Criticizing gender because it is capable of being influenced by society seems like neomarxist problems.
Gender is NOT a social construct this person is an id1ot . Many languages other than English have same world for s3x and gender . By saying we can liberate ourselves from woman and man , I can claim myself as a woman by socialising myself even though I was born a XY
Thanks for this video! I wish it had portuguese subtitles so I could share with people around here.
Hi Fernando! Click the settings icon on the video player and click subtitles. You might have to click English first, and then a 'Auto-translate' option will be there. Then you can select Portuguese. Hope that helps. We also have transcripts on our website which you can copy and translate using a translation tool.
@@ParadoxInstitute auto generated subtitles and translate subtitles are often very bad and it would be a great service to any deaf people if you could subtitle your videos rather than letting autogenerate to it. (although your consistent and clean talking makes the auto-generate ones okay to watch)
Excellent
We can be kind while knowing the truth. And how can you respect a trans person without telling them the truth of what they are?
your video literally contradicted one of your other videos lmao
80% decent. The understanding of gender is a little bit superficial, but good overall.
4:10 Oh, I... Didn't finish watching.
What sex is a transwoman?
A man
I prefer calling them "male trans" to remind them that they are MEN.
"Transvestite" and "crossdresser" are fine, too.
I'm still confused, if a boy is defined as someone who displays mostly masculine traits, and a girl is defined as someone who displays mostly feminine traits, then why isnt a feminine boy a girl? or a masculine girl a boy?
Sex and gender: they're the same thing
Video over
It is only a paradox if you believe that people have or are a particular gender. More accurately people are (gendered or missgendered) Sex is biological. Gender are those Things (clothes, names, traits, bathrooms 🚻, strongly Associated with one sex or the other (binary). Therefore it is redundant to say a person is strongly Associated with their biological sex. Generally only people who wish to be strongly Associated with the opposite sex, seek to be Gendered (identify or misidentified).
I love this guys videos, but i disagree with this video. Sex and gender are the same. In this video, he mixed personality and beliefs and self-image with gender a word that means the same as sex.
The problem with the trans ideology that becomes in kids a escape from social and physical challenges for adolescence. Proof of this are autistic kids, that cannot relate or interact with a reciprocal relationship with any social group, they are victims of the black and white logic. If I not so much masculine, then I should feminine and viscera. The same issue might happen with non-autistic kids, even though in autism is were this phenomena or cult can be proven to be a consequence of social and self-stem contagion challenges that this kids have. When they adopt the trans ideology, they dont even understand the features of the opposite sex.
THAT'S NOT WHAT BINARY IS!!!
@@makeshift2105 ONLY two things. If you have 0 then 1 and then 0.5 it's not binary anymore.
Binary two options. That’s it YOUR BORN WITH MALE OR FEMALE GAMMETS
There is no difference and If there is then I would love to break down your factual incorrectness in a conversation
You had me right up till the end you sneaky content creator, you! The last part is simply fearmongering that is not what is occurring. This is a strawman and wholly unscientific.
“medicalization-of-gender-non-conformance”
I recommend giving this a read on their website
SRI gen is key.
"Girls are told they are boys because they like playing with trucks"
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You could just say "I don't believe that"
@@carlospomares3225 do you honestly think it is happening?
You can pretty much cut the video off at min 5. What is described here simply does not happen to any noticable degree. The very groups which advocate for trans rights are also the ones who advocate for more liberty when it comes to gender expression. Conversly, people who oppose Gender Transition are the ones who cling to antiquated normative gender roles. There might be fringe cases with abusive parents, but all in all, the way in which the last part is framed comes pretty close to Anti-Trans rhetoric. The last part wasn't technically wrong. If such a thing were to happen, it would be bad. No one needs to be told by others what their gender is, that much is clear. But why did you waste the last minute of your video condeming something that basically does not happen, instead of the very real thing where parents forbid children from expressing traits associated with the opposite sex? It is just kinda weird, I would be curious for your reply.
You're counting a generalizing statement with another generalizing statement. I hope you understand how that is not compelling.
I can't believe it. 30 seconds in and he is already contradicting himself. You just defined sex by gametes only. So why exactly are you listing genitalia and all of these other things? Holy shit
@@makeshift2105 That person is a classical TRA ignore the bot it's basically talking to a brain dead cat at this point
Simone de Beauvoir was correct in saying that one is not born a woman, she becomes a woman. But, her mistake, like in this video, is that she implies a distinction between sex and gender. Humans are actually mammals with much of our behavior determined at conception. So, in actuality, the human is born a girl and becomes a woman, or is born a boy and becomes a man. Part of that "becoming" is puberty. If we actually eliminate the word "gender", then we are stuck with the more accurate understanding that genetics and biology along with culture and environment construct roles or expressions of the two sexes. It is hard to distinguish exactly what is from genetics and what is from culture. Perhaps clothing styles could be rooted solely in culture although environmental factors might also play a part. Sex roles or sex expression also connote sexual behavior, which is not so outrageous since evolution by natural selection requires this activity between the two sexes for procreation. To get away from this uncomfortable carnality we use the phrase "gender roles" rather than "sex roles". Postmodernism deconstructs sex-gender roles by focusing on the psychological and sociological implications. It ignores biology similar to Simone de Beauvoir but in a much more exaggerated and dual way. A form of body-psyche dualism is created similar to body-soul dualism found in Christianity. In the end, a whole new religious-like psyche world of Gender Spectrum.
"Gender" and "Sex" used to mean practically the same thing. "Gender" was used mostly to avoid sounding explicit because "sex" also meant f- king.
However, "gender" has been given a new definition by the woke trans mob to also mean self-perception. In this sense, "gender" is reduced to a mere fantasy and not necessarily real.
Thus, we can all reject anyone's self-perceived gender because that is just their fantasy. It's simply not true and no one has to play along with it.
Seems like every fact about the distinction went in one ear and out the other 🤣
Ironically your assertions about hard coded biology are in place of actual prescriptions (humanity tends to create concepts for society), which is just factually wrong on your part.
@@KatarinaBohtana The exact response one would expect from a true believer.
@@Ward1859 Believer of empirical fact and predictable sociological behavior. Try again.
@@KatarinaBohtana Well, at least we agree that the foundation should be based on science. But, I really don't feel that I need to demonstrate anything to you. You can always put in your own independent comment to the video. Don't need to waste your time commenting on me.
I'm no biologist, so maybe this seems weird to ask, but why does 0:54 not destabilize the binary definition of sex? If not 100% of people fall into the binary definitions, why can it still be classified as binary?
Because those who doesn't are an exception, and exceptions are not the rule.
DSDs exist, but they don't produce a new sex, it's simply a bug in the life code aka the DNA.
@@Synthetic_geth yeah, but exceptions in an otherwise binary structure do break the rule of it being binary imo, maybe I'm looking at it from a too mathematical point of view...
You know the example with the white swan hypothesis? if you only ever see white swans, you'll make a rule, that every swan is white, if the 100'000th swan you see is suddenly black, that does indeed break the rule, you could make a new rule, that most swans are white, but the old rule is proven false. And saying, sex is binary doen't say, it's "mostly binary", what would that even mean?
And isn't saying, DSD's are a bug in life kind of offensive to DSD's? Like, most people aren't you, are you now a bug in life?
@@Feds_the_Freds your swans example is very lame, swans are meant to be *either* white or black or any other color *swans* has in their genome code, so black is a valid case and not an exception, in the case of sex anything but male and female, is an exception, even in the computer world it's called "*exceptions and error handeling*" cuz they go out of the supposed-to-happen rule but something along the way went wrong, instead of trying to validate an exception, look for a solution.
And no this generation has a single motive of "not offending", someone might have cancer, it's a bug in their cells, we won't lie to them and tell them they don't have cancer and let them live like nothing is wrong just to not *offend them* , risking their life in the process.
@@Synthetic_geth why lame? I want to genuinely understand it, as many scientists, who obviousely know more than me on this topic, see it that way that sex is binary and I just don't get it in the wake of apparent exceptions.
Black would be an exception, if the rule would be called, that most swans are white. If the rule would be, that every swan is white, a black swan would cause an error, if you want to make that analogy. So errors and exceptions are different, right? errors shouldn't happen, exceptions can happen and are prepared for with a solution on what to do, errorson the other hand are just arrors and the code can't really do anything with it.
So what are intersex people, are they errors, because the rule is, that everyone is either male or female, or are they exceptions, because the rule is that most people are either male or female and this is still classified as binary, because it's biology and not maths?
I don't understand? Couldn't the cancer be fixed and at the same time it not be called a bug in the cells? ofc it is sometimes called a bug in the cells, but it can also just be viewed as something, that would kill the person, if it doesn't get fixed, that wouldn't happen with intersex people, as far as I'm aware. And a bug in the cells could theoretically be fixed (of course, cancer treatment isn't that far, as far as I know but still, theoretically, you can imagine it getting fixed), with intersex, how would that even look like? what is it a bug of? and how would a theoretical fix look like?
But that aside, isn't that analogy even more offensive? As cancer is a sickness and as far as I'm aware, intersexness not. I could be wrong, I don't know enough on this topic, but either intersex people are sick, because they are intersex and something needs to be changed in their dna or it's not a sickness and the analogy doesn't really fit, as with cancer the one who has it, sees the cancer themself as a bug and wants to get rid of it.
@@Feds_the_Freds Not sure if you read Synthetic's first sentence in the previous reply, but the reply says:
> swans are meant to be either white or black or any other color swans has in their genome code, so black is a valid case and not an exception, in the case of sex anything but male and female, is an exception
also the only thing close to offensive that Synthetic said was "your swans example is very lame" but even that was just an opinion. No need to get upset Marco. We can have conversations without taking things personally.
I appreciate this video and many points made. I do have a difference of opinion concerning the separation of sex and gender. It's completely unnecessary and has provided fuel for those who deny the gender binary. Meanwhile, it's much more effective and aligned with reality to use the specific phrasing cited in this video "gender expectations" to describe the difference between biological gender and the societal expectations of one's biological gender. There's a thousand ways to express manhood and a thousand ways to express womanhood, but if we want a healthy functional society, we err very much to not have some gender expectations. For example, I don't find it regressive at all to insist a male child not wear a dress.
While biology is not the whole of what an individual is, it's also not a meaningless thing, which is partly why the gender distinction should carry with it some societal gender expectation as well.
Biological sex is either male or female.
Contrary to what is commonly believed, sex is defined not by chromosomes or our genitals or hormonal profiles, but by gametes, which are mature reproductive cells.
There are only two types of gametes: small ones called sperm that are produced by males, and large ones called eggs that are produced by females.
There are no intermediate types of gametes between egg and sperm cells. Sex is therefore binary. It is not a spectrum.
Similar to sex, gender - both with regard to identity and expression - is biological. It is not a social construct, nor is it divorced from anatomy or sexual orientation. Despite what contemporary scholars may have you believe, all of these things are very much linked. Biology, not society, dictates whether we are gender-typical or atypical, the extent to which we identify as the sex we were born as, and the partners we are sexually attracted to.
Anyone who brings in the phenomenon of 'intersex' to supposedly demonstrate that sex is non-binary has not fully understood it either. Intersex people are people born with a mix of what is masculine and feminine. But even intersex people can still be defined as male or female by checking which of his or her two genitals are active. If it produces sperm, it is a male. If she produces eggs, it is a female.
It is biology, hate it or love it.
Debra Soh. The End of Gender
This is like PragerU for Terfs. Holy shit.
@Josh the Art Critic This is like PragerU for TERFS with like one extra layer of credibility before we get to the ideological and logical falicies. Holy shit.
@Josh the Art Critic I did, gimme a sec and I'll copy paste my other comment here for you (oh right yeah never mind you read that)
Ah good now he starts getting transphobic too..
Exactly what sentence or statement do you see as transphobic? Please, do not reply if you're going to type "it's obvious"
As trans and intersex, nothing about this channel is transphobic. Stop wanting to be a victim so badly.
1. Do you not think you're putting words into the mouth of Simone de Beauvoir a little?
2. I dislike the framing that assumes that children are having this enforced onto them, because even under current practise these are seen as symptoms not as reasons. Children are not just put up for HRT if they happen to play with trucks or wear dresses, its a long and complicated procedure of checks to assertain whether this path is the best path for the child (and future adult). And if its not a long and rigourous process then the child has been failed in my eyes and the eyes of many who believe the same as me.
3. This ignores the slightly evidence lacking but very real possibility of internal brain sex/gender. That there is something in your brain that if its a certain way gives you gender dysphoria in some states, gender euphoria in others and gender aphoria in others still and that supposedly lines up in trans women - cis women and trans men - cis men.
4. I watched your other videos on your definition of sex which (TLDR) you define as [SRY gene status and gamete production]. Thats fine and all but does that not render sex a bit of a technicality and a little irrelevent in determining safety of various groups, as hormone composition and muscle pattern are far better indicators of peoples' relative threats to eachother and trans (gender+hrt) people corrolate with the sex/gender they are transitioning to?
5. This entirely ignores nonbinary (a purely gender phenomenon) social experiences.
Sorry for the long comment I briefly wanted to touch on all my qualms. You make informative videos that even if I disagree with the messeging and the political push of them, the science is all correct. I wish you personally all the best. xx
@Josh the Art Critic "a sign"... I am going to assume thats a paraphrasing of "symptom" and the answer is yes and no.
On its own it is just the kid is playing with friends of the opposite gender and thats fine.
Paired with other symptoms, one of which would probably have to include continual identification with children of the opposite sex and self separation from children of the same sex.
What actions children enguage in can be a great diagnostic tool and often times an ignored one and I know because I had a childhood psychologist look at me and basically just say "delayed development, a teaching assistant will do" without identifying the really obvious symptoms of various things, part of which included unusual play habits.
@Josh the Art Critic those do more yes. But never the less we live in a gendered society and if there were some kind of validity to the internal gender claim, how would it manifest? Well one of the ways it may manifest is in choices of clothings and toys. No?
@Josh the Art Critic I do understand why it feels like but every person I've met advocating for them is actually a gender abolitionist (part of which is the complete gettting rid of these stereotypes). The idea usually is that these "stereotypes" may be good for diagnosing people right now but in another (hopefully) couple of decades we'll be in a place where children can feel free enough to express themselves and this will no longer be a good heuristic.
I would agree if the only thing a child has done is be a little gender-non-conforming then it would be abuse to transition them, but thats not whats going on by and large. Calling it an illness is wrong but think of it like a sneeze. It can be a sign of the common cold or a full on flu and only looking for other symptoms will let you know whether a hot chocolate or meds are the right thing to reach for.
That being said conflating trans ness and viruses might be a bit of a sore note spot right now.
He is not putting words in Simone's mouth. The full quote is "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychic, or economic destiny defines the figure that the human female takes on in society; it is civilization as a whole that elaborates this intermediary product between the male and the eunuch that is called feminine".. And in the rest of the chapter she elaborates further on how the social role imposed on women is not natural, but is culturally constructed. If you read the book, it is clear that in the quote that she is using "becoming a woman" to mean how one conformes to a social feminine role that isn't natural.
@@minkz4097 wait I'll give the video a second watch if I'm wrong but that was *not* what I got from the video. In fact thats what I assume she meant as a feminist myself, that gender (and woman specifically) is socially constructed not a biological inalterable reality. What the video told me was literally the opposite which was why I thought they were twisting her words and putting new ones in her mouth.
You are clearly unaware of the trans femboy discourse.
i eblive that sex and egnder are the same
@Toon Disney except the woke left and those transgender activists they dont belive that
@Toon Disney those type of people msut eb executed
5:16 this has got to be the dumbest take i have ever heard.
@@makeshift2105 because trans people are not trans due to social stereotypes but rather due to internal identity and more often than not discomfort in their on sex.
@@makeshift2105 I'm talking about transsexualism specifically. For gender topics this is more so about social well being and identity.
But, how much biology influence the way you behavior? I mean, yes there are individual differences, but mainly, hormones and genes will tell what are you going to be. There's been proof that this is the reason most women prefer "girly" things and that is not a stereotype, it's a truth.
Yes, there are plenty of research studies which show average sex differences between boys and girls, men and women, on the population level. And hormones do play a large role in differentiating the sexes in behavior. Understanding the mix of how biology and society affect men and women depends on the trait being studied. Stereotypes are often true, and often do describe average differences, and at the same time, stereotypes can turn into caricatures and applied incorrectly to individuals.
Education is also very important. Education in boys and girls is very different. For example many boys are not allowed to cry and be weak, while girls are often allowed. Our early experiences are also important to determine who we are. I often think about the fact that much of our "male/female neuroscience" is absolutely useless, because if you study the difference of male and female brains in adults you will never know if it's a biological difference or if it's caused by differences in education. Studies on newborns would be more useful, and also studies about the influence of hormones on brain and behavior and studies about the effects of ALL the genes in X and Y chromosomes. This would be VERY useful.
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What?
@@PAC-0922 ?
@@smoochfa973 why did you comment that
@@PAC-0922 idk it was a year ago
@@smoochfa973 damn, I kinda *don’t care*