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The problem is flipping back and forth between biological sex and gender. This is from the Yale School of Medicine web site.
In 2001, a committee convened by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a nonprofit think tank that took on issues of importance to the national health, addressed the question of whether it mattered to study the biology of women as well as men.
The IOM, now embedded within the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), concluded there was more than sufficient evidence that, beyond reproductive biology, there were major differences in the biology of women and men that greatly affected their health and influenced treatment and prevention strategies.
Importantly, the committee emphasized that neither the health of women nor men is simply a product of biology but is also influenced by sociocultural and psychological experience. To differentiate between these broad areas of investigation, the members created working definitions of “sex” — when referring to biology — and “gender” — when referring to self-representation influenced by social, cultural, and personal experience.
The committee advised that scientists use these definitions in the following ways:
In the study of human subjects, the term sex should be used as a classification, generally as male or female, according to the reproductive organs and functions that derive from the chromosomal complement [generally XX for female and XY for male].
In the study of human subjects, the term gender should be used to refer to a person's self-representation as male or female, or how that person is responded to by social institutions on the basis of the individual's gender presentation.
In most studies of nonhuman animals, the term sex should be used.
These working definitions were a good start in recognizing the value of studying sex and gender and their interactions, yet they were always meant to evolve. Now, we are learning more about ourselves and so must adapt our terminology to be inclusive, respectful, and more accurate.
For example, while most people are born biologically female or male, rare biological syndromes can result in genital ambiguity. Or a resistance to a sex hormone can result in traits typical of the opposite biological sex.
Moreover, while an individual’s internal sense of gender can be female or male, some people identify as nonbinary — neither female nor male. Other individuals can identify as a gender that is the same as (cisgender) or different from (transgender) the one assigned at birth. These terms are separate from an individual’s sexual orientation, which describes a person’s emotional, romantic and/or physical attachments (such as straight, lesbian, gay, asexual, bisexual, and more).
The reality is, gender is 100% a social construct we have MADE UP. It's not based on anything scientific at all. There is no reason to dress boys in blue and girls in pink, except that society decided it should be that way. That wasn't even true until after World War II.
Similarly, boys play with trucks and play sports and girls do crafts and play with dolls. It's all total BS. Boys who are too "feminine" in their manerisms, dress, or interests were labeled "sissies" when I was school age. Girls who played sports and got dirty and liked science and math were "tomboys". It has ZERO to do with biology. It's all about what society has decided is proper "boy" and "girl" behavior. It includes all the insane double standards too- like women shouldn't be promiscuous but men are expected to "sow their wild oats" before settling down. Or that women shouldn't be engineers, doctors, and lawyers and men shouldn't be nurses or teachers. It's all made up. It's fake.
You know how many times any of my sisters saw me in any stage of undress at all? Zero. Never. Never ever ever happened. Why and how would it ever happen? What is the threat of someone who feels more like a woman than a man and is interested in the things sororities do versus the things fraternities do being a member of a sorority? Especially if they are taking hormones to help them transition physically.
I've never been afraid of any transgender women. Of all the people I know who have been raped, the rapist has never been a transgender woman. It's always been a cisgender man. That's who I'm afraid of.
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