Talk:Gender

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"Hermaphrodite" is not a medical term. It is also considered highly offensive. The correct term is "intersex." Intersex encompasses a variety of conditions. This page also seems to not understand the difference between sex, gender, and gender identity. These are really important distinctions.

Cis and trans are not orientations in and of themselves. They relate to how an individual relates to their assigned gender at birth.

Many younger trans people consider FTM or MTF to represent a narrative that does not necessarily relate to the reality of their lives. They were born what they are now. It's just that their birth assignment didn't match.

While that is true, there are still those who identify with the FTM or MTF narratives, so they are options. And you're talking with one now.

Tersia (talk) 04:41, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Definition of gender

The article had "Gender is the range of biological characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between the spectrum of masculinity and femininity". While that is flat-out wrong, it was entered by Admin, so I'm not going to try to change it outright. I added a citation needed tag. This site shouldn't be defining gender for people. It should be linking them out to reliable sources. -- Wulfrath

If you see something like that, please do post a suggestion for the alteration that reflects a culturally inclusive view, linking to a notable source is also great. I am certainly not above the law, and a lot of what is entered is written at late hours with very little sleep to get the project rolling. --Admin (talk) 13:23, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Alienation?

The page currently has a note on it that I, with my genderfucked lenses on, can not figure out. I personally cannot find how this is sounding like gender variant people are space aliens. To me, it's just neural and straight forward. Basically, I'm looking for a way to fix it, and can't find one.

Within the world of BDSM, gender rights and orientations are a large and often debated discussion. Best Practices are to indicate an inclusive view concerning gender orientation as a part of identity and recognize that many identify their gender in various fashions as is their right Template:This makes it sound like gender variant people are space aliens. you are assuming cis readers

I think I fixed it by minimizing the information and strictly limiting the data to what gender is. Further, for now adding "culturally exclusive gender as a page and listing some of them that may cover the genders there, and if/when we eventually have articles on each of them, the appropriate measure seems to be that each be listed as a gender no different from other genders but be tagged on the article as a culturally exclusive gender as well as a gender for categories. The reason I think they should be included in both is that we can show that generally speaking there is a stance that a particular orientation is considered culturally exclusive, but lets be real, this is the internet, people adopt culture however they are going to, and no one has the right to tell someone they cannot identify a certain way, they can only decide if they endorse that agenda for themselves. Is that potentially insensitive, it could be, but no one culture owns a trademark to a thought/idea.