midgetmetalhead19

1) A better definition would be woman = ‘a person who underwent the developmental process in the womb to produce organs that produce eggs’ and man = ‘a person who underwent the developmental process in the womb to produce organs that produce sperm’. As a biologist I use this. So children are male/female. Women who’ve had a hysterectomy are still female by that definition. 2) Chromosomes. All the ‘man stuff’ is either encoded by or activated by the Y chromosome. It also inhibits the ‘lady stuff from the X chromosome. Fetuses undergo female development until the Y chromosome comes into play. In the absence of a Y chromosome, female development continues. If there’s any developmental biologists, they could maybe shed a bit more light. 3) Gender roles were originally constructs to prevent women doing pretty much anything. They’re still prevalent- look at the stuff aimed at boys (DO STUFF) and girls (LOOK PRETTY). Society needs money to function. It does not need ‘gender roles’- men and women can both do most jobs. Non-binary? Others will probably have different reasons, but I’m commonly seeing NB lumped in with female for sports leagues and ‘equality stuff’- the position of ‘women’s officer’ at my uni is now ‘women and NB officer’. If NB are being treated as women are they going to be accessing female-only spaces?
Hope this helps and apologies for the essay.