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What is the difference between sex and gender?

Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Nov 14, 2014
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Sex is generally defined as the binary characteristic that is assigned at birth, i.e. male or female, and relates to your body's physical properties (specifically the 'sex organs'). Gender is more complex, as it can be a spectrum from 'entirely male' to 'entirely female', and there are people that feel they fit in anywhere in between the two or with neither. Gender is about which set of characteristics you identify with the most, and can change more easily.
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Sex describes ones physical properties, such as male and female. Gender is the mental identification of a person, such as man, woman, and unidentified.
Profile: Gardeviola
Gardeviola on Nov 7, 2014
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Here's something I use to remember: Sex is in your pants, Gender is in your mind, and Orientation is in your heart. Sex is what your genitals tell you, and gender is what you personally feel like you are. Personally, my gender matches my sex, but for many, they don't match. Hope this helps.
Profile: CaringTeresa
CaringTeresa on Aug 9, 2016
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Sex refers to the physiological and the biological characteristics that define men and women. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, actives, attributes, and behaviors that a society considers appropriate and normal for men and women.
Profile: Dearfriend
Dearfriend on Nov 12, 2014
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"Male" and "female" are sex categories, while "masculine" and "feminine" are gender categories.Aspects of sex will not vary substantially between different human societies, while aspects of gender may vary greatly.
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softWingedgiraffe33 on Nov 11, 2014
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Based in my understanding, sex is what you are assigned at birth (what your chromosomes and genitals say you are) whereas gender is what you feel you are. So you could have breasts, a vagina, etc, but feel on the inside like you are male or another gender or without a gender at all, and vice versa. Itspronouncedmetrosexual.com has some good resources for this, too.
Profile: kaimodernchemistry
kaimodernchemistry on Feb 9, 2016
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Sex: Sex is what you are born with. IE: Male, Female, or intersex. I, myself, am a trans person. I identify as agender. Gender is different between everyone. Gender is what you feel. Gender is how you express yourself. Gender is how someone identifies.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Nov 8, 2014
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There isn't really a difference. If you refer to a woman or a man you can call it sex or a gender.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Nov 24, 2015
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refers to the biological and physiological characteristics, while gender refers to behaviors, roles, expectations, and activities in society. Sex refers to male or female, while gender refers to masculine or feminine. The differences in the sexes do not vary throughout the world, but differences in gender.
Profile: Wittygeek
Wittygeek on Jan 4, 2016
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The difference between sex and gender is that is your legal documentation of the gender you were born to, and gender can represent the gender that you best relate too.
Profile: tryempathy92
tryempathy92 on Nov 8, 2014
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Sex is based on whether someone is physically male or female, while gender depends how who they identify as.
Profile: Megan45
Megan45 on Nov 11, 2014
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Sex is biological but gender is what you identify as. You be biological female but you identify as a male= your sex is female but your gender is male
Profile: cherryblossom1994
cherryblossom1994 on Nov 18, 2014
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A person's sex is more of a biological aspect (chromosomes, internal sex structure, external sex structure, etc.) Gender is what our society labels as masculine/feminine.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jan 5, 2016
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Sex and gender can be easily explained like : "sex is below the belt, gender is above the belt", meaning that sex is what you're born with and cannot be changed, while gender is what you identify as and is all in your brain. So a ftm transgender's sex is female, and gender is male (vice versa for mtf)
Profile: SupportiveSockMonkey
SupportiveSockMonkey on Apr 17, 2018
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Sex is the physical description given to you at birth = male and female. Gender is what you identify as - male, female, transgender. Often confused with sexual orientation which is - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, pan sexual etc.
Profile: LittleRedFox
LittleRedFox on Nov 5, 2014
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Biological sex is the chromosomes that you have, and this stays the same throughout your life. Sex is the "parts" that you have. People can be male, female, or intersex, which is when someone has at least part of both male and female genitalia, for example a woman who has a testicle inside her abdomen. Sex can be changed through gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. Gender is how you identify and feel inside. There are many different genders, and genderqueer/non-binary are umbrella terms for people who do not identify with the male or female genders, but rather feel they are in between, a combination of, or neither of the traditional binary genders.
Profile: rivailleisanerd
rivailleisanerd on Feb 15, 2016
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Sex is biological - based on chromosomes, genitalia and other factors. Gender is your mental identity - who YOU know you are
Profile: Catfishblues
Catfishblues on Aug 22, 2016
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The "sex" of a person is what they were born with. The "gender" of said person is what they decide to label themselves as.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Aug 17, 2015
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Sex is what you are classified as by chromosomes and strictly biological criteria. Gender is the masculine/feminine/androgynous attitudes and feelings a culture associates with a biological gender. Your gender and sex do not have to match. person’s biological sex
Profile: OliB
OliB on Oct 11, 2015
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Sex is your physical body type, whether you have male (xy) reproductive organs or female (xx) reproductive organs. Gender is your personal identification of your own sex based on an internal awareness (gender identity). In an ideal world everyone should naturally identify as the gender that coensides with their sex: Male mody=Male mind / Female body-Female mind. But in some cases people have developed so that the image in their mind of how their body should work isn't the same as their physical appearance. If a person feels this way they are called transgender which is where, for example, someone could have a perfect female brain but developed a male body (or the other way around) or you could be anywhere inbetween binary gender (Male/female) to agender (they identify as neutral; They don't have a gender at all). so to summarise: Gender is in your brain, Sex is in your pants.
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