Q&A: What Is Gender?
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What Is Gender?
Question
In today’s gender discourse, what is the definition of gender?
That is, when a person says that their gender is X, what do you understand them to be saying?
Answer
That’s too general a question. If you want to discuss a specific definition or point, present it here for discussion.
Discussion on Answer
See also Column 504
It’s not clear to me whether this is simply a description of a subjective experience — I feel that I’m a man / woman / cat — or whether it’s an objective claim — my character / my traits are those of a man.
Ah, now I see that the column is exactly about that.