Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Wed 16 Apr 17:01

Sex has always been binary - male or female. You`re thinking of gender.

Bletchley_Par, Wed 16 Apr 18:18

Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Wed 16 Apr 17:01

Sex has always been binary - male or female. You`re thinking of gender.

Nah that`s just silly bugger word games jake. Gender always was the same as sex until it was highjacked to mean something ethereal that could not be measured.

Godless people trying to create a new name for the soul.

jake89, Wed 16 Apr 18:58

Bletchley_Par, Wed 16 Apr 18:18

Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Wed 16 Apr 17:01

Sex has always been binary - male or female. You`re thinking of gender.

Nah that`s just silly bugger word games jake. Gender always was the same as sex until it was highjacked to mean something ethereal that could not be measured.

Godless people trying to create a new name for the soul.

Yes and no. Sex isn`t gender and gender isn`t sex but you`re right that until relatively recently it was assumed, as remains the case for probably 99.99% of people, that a male is a boy/man and a female is a girl/woman.

jake89, Thu 17 Apr 00:21

Probably to curry favour with the Greens and because it was a personal mission of a certain ex-FM.

Being honest, I`m not really clear how the decision today really resolves the issue of trying to incorporate multiple genders into a predominantly binary world. We now know that biological sex determines whether you`re a man or a woman, but does this mean, for example, a man living their life as a woman must use male facilities? Currently the decision on placing in a male or female prison is determined by the SPS doing an assessment (and not a decision by the FM as the media previously made out!). Will this now change and no assessment will occur? Doesn`t this raise a risk of a post-op trans woman being a potential target in a male prison?