GC: With the potential for future advancements in medical technology, what does this mean for the immutability of biological sex?

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[–]Porcelain_QuetzalTabby without Ears 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sorry for answering this late. Was kind busy. I'm aware why sex was decoupled from gender and I agree with the sentiment second wave feminism puts forward. I'm just confused why you link these two again. Imo somone is female regardless of socialization and if woman is adult human female, then male socialized women could exist, albeit unlikely in current society, and someone undergoing a perfect sex change would actually be a woman/man. Imo this follows logically from the premise that womanhood is only about sex. Or am I completely misunderstanding you?

[–]DistantGlimmer 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think you're confusing ought with is. Sex and gender are linked because gender is a hierarchy based on sex. A woman can only be an adult human female but there is also a gender aspect to being a woman under patriarchy. Society should be such that being born into a male or female body places no gendered expectations or socialization on the person but that is what we have to fight for.

Theoretically, it may be possible to raise a woman socialized male or a man socialized female if it was like on a desert island with no other contacts but in an actual society, I think it is virtually impossible. because they will get those messages from many places other than their parents. There are interesting discussions about people like Jazz Jennings or that other one that was transitioned really young and the extent to which they would be male or female socialized though but luckily this is not the experience of most trans people.