Some people push it like that, but that's not really what the observation is about. It's meant to highlight that it's not preordained. Life is mostly made up and we should learn to acknowledge that openly. Especially when aspects of that made-up-ness actively oppress people

I've socially transitioned and I can safely say it's like going through a portal into a different dimension.

I mean it's a bit like saying software is just 1s and 0s. Ya great but I still need to run Krita to draw.

What bothers me is when people use that argument to advocate for replacing 'constructs' which evolved more or less naturally over tens of thousands of years, even before the dawn of civilization, with something deliberately engineered by individual humans. Is a cis-normative nuclear family the only way that it's possible to live? Of course not, but it's also what the vast majority of the population wants in their lives, which is why it's the standard.

Babies do not have gender, because baby minds aren't developed enough to understand that kind of social construct. A baby's gender is both a social construct AND not real.

Oh! I'm going to present the following in good faith.

You're referring to sex. Sex is biological, gender is a concept. Sex is related to your hormones and your healthcare and what's in your pants, but the idea of masculinity or femininity being tied to specific behaviors or clothes is a social construct. (Gender.)

IE; I'm a woman. Very much a woman. Super secure in that. I've got all the parts, enjoy having them. When I go to the gym or when I drink my cousins under the table or when I work on a car, those things shouldn't be tied to an idea of being masculine, because I'm not suddenly more masculine for doing them. I'm definitely still a woman the whole time. That's the difference here, is that there's a concept of gender which is different than sex.

Of course it's not devoid of the effects of sexual dimorphism. It's just that how one's sex determines societal roles and stereotypes (a closer definition of gender), shouldn't be so rigid and unmovable.

Sex, like all genetics, is way more important to how people turn out than people give credit for lol. That's beyond the cheating route and using strictly physical differences. Height, weight, puberty, etc.

It's kinda like the back swing to people complaining that parents should be lynched for something their children do. The Sins of the Father runs both ways. People really don't like to think that the genetic roll of the lottery can give you a serial killer though. The entropy of life is a hard thing for pattern seeking humans to deal with.

Boys and girls are different, but most psychological sex differences are modest in size. For example, gaps in verbal skills, math performance, empathy and even most types of aggression are generally much smaller than the disparity in adult height, in which the average five-foot, 10-inch man in the U.S. is taller than 98 percent of U.S. women. When it comes to mental abilities, males and females overlap much more than they differ.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-differences-in-boys-and-girls-how-much-is-inborn/

Helicopter or hands-off parenting? The choice won't impact a kid as much as you think

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1193176710

Lots of evidence going back and forth regarding how male / female brain structure has an influence on gender incongruence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_gender_incongruence

Brothers and fathers of men convicted of sexual offences are up to five times more likely to be convicted of sexual offences than men in the general population, a new study shows. Genetic factors were found to make a substantial contribution to this increased risk with the shared family environment having a relatively small influence.

https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/sex-offending-genes-more-important-than-family-environment

Contemporary research in neurobiology (a branch of science that deals with the anatomy,[9] physiology, and pathology of nervous system) of addiction points to genetics as a major contributing factor to addiction vulnerability. It has been estimated that 40–60% of the vulnerability to developing an addiction is due to genetics.[10][11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction_vulnerability#Genetic_factors

Aberrant brain activity in pedophilia links to receptor distribution, gene expression, and behavior

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-023-00105-0

A good read about how the cards can be stacked against people from the moment they're born. You might still end up with a winning hand, but it's just that much harder.

Minor Physical Anomalies and Congenital Malformations

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00940/full

All men are created equal is the biggest lie there ever was. I wonder if there will ever be such a thing as genetic equity.

Sex, like all things, matters. How much you attribute to it can vary anywhere from 0 to 100 due to what you get stuck with in your DNA. Sussing out those nuances is going to takes us decades to centuries still.

Nature probably has way more control over nurture than we would like to think. It's much easier to look down on others in disgust than compassion though and I'm a much bigger optimist and advocate for understanding others than Lemmy likes lol. I'm also for free will over determinism both philosophically and through quantum physics... but sex, something genes are very much tied to, matters.

Blood type? I blame that for how much mosquitos like me, besides oily ass skin.

E: More sauce and tidbits.

Oddly I think parties like this would be more beneficial to the child.

If my parents had thought to have a joint mobility party for me, then maybe my hip joint deformity would have been found in infancy, when it's treatable, and not when I was 17 after years of being told I had "growing pains".

Yeah let's reveal your child's genitals.. doesn't have the same ring to it

Hoho, I've been to plenty of those

Humans have sexual dimorphism, but it's a cultural thing that women wear skirts and men drink themselves to death instead of talking about their problems (both of these are jokes btw. I have a friend who wore kilts quite often and my mother drank herself to death)

Also, genetics is tricky, there a plenty of examples of people who do not fall into one category or another for these sexually dimorphic traits. There are people who have genetics from both sex, as well and differences in hormones distributions will causes these traits to appear or not appear.

Is a huge grey area.

You're confusing sex with gender

The anthropologist might see skeletal differences but they'd also pay attention to the manner in which the subject was buried or what possessions survived with them that could also serve as clues of the subject's identity in life.

It's a cultural anthropologist, obviously! :)