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User voted Yes, there are more than two genders.
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Aug 2, 2016

In my opinion there are physical and psychological genders. Physical being genitalia, and if you go by that alone there is 4 as you can be born with both or none. Psychological being what that person feels they are.

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User voted No, there are only two genders: female and male.
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Jun 22, 2016

This whole gender debate and what bathroom to use is kinda silly. It doesn't take much to design a single sex bathroom that accommodates everyone. Been in a few, each stall was separate, with door the close off each stall, you walked in picked any stall did your business walked out to the sink area, and washed up. Yes there were urinals, in a small stand up stalls and clearly marked are urinals. Easy yea the first time I was in there it was a little bit of a shock to see women in there too, but nobody ever saw anything and once you used it once or twice you did't think anything about it.

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User voted Yes, there are more than two genders.
2 votes
Aug 17, 2016

Yes.

The very point of gender is that it is socially constructed. It's a social agreement, not a biological fact. (Yes, gender is related to an underlying biological fact; no, that is not remotely relevant).

In a state of nature, no one is an accountant either, and yet we have regulations and recognition of that job.

Societies are supposed to accommodate, within reason, the people that live within them. Abstract principles are never particularly useful as guides in that situation: you figure it out on a case-by-case basis.

Accommodating people who view themselves as another gender is easy. It is not a particularly difficult challenge. Do you have to memorize the seventy or what not genders that folks have created? No. When someone asks you to accommodate their specific gender identity, is it reasonable to deny them? No. It's a simple matter of courtesy.

The science is pretty clear: gender dysmorphia is real, it has biological antecedents, and it is not an illness. People who identify as transgender should receive support to deal with the secondary symptoms that may stem from gender dysmorphia, but the underlying condition itself is not a disability or an illness. And even if it were, leprosy is undoubtedly an illness and people accommodated lepers in the past too with appropriate changes to the social contract.

There's simply no justification for choosing a priori to make some portion of the population uncomfortable. No one would want that done to them, so it is a moral grotesquerie to do it to others.

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User voted No, there are only two genders: female and male.
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1 vote,
Sep 15, 2016

If I'm not mistaken, Lepers were historically ostracized from society for hundreds of years before they were accepted as "people". Humans treat different things differently--usually very badly. If we don't know how to treat it right, we usually mistreat it. Changing the labels on things alone can cause problems, but creating new labels is even worse because it confuses people. Humans love to categorize things specifically (e.g. science), and changing the definition of words or creating new ones to more accurately describe things with slight differences is infuriating to a lot of people. I don't believe that adding more genders will make society anymore inclusive, and I believe it will probably do the opposite. There are already terrible stereotypes and prejudices people are making up about people who identify as different genders. Half the US population can't even handle the fact that *gasp* gay men kiss other gay men, let alone that this girl feels like a boy, acts like a boy, dresses like a boy, and yet still dates boys even though she doesn't want to be a girl. Its even more foreign to them than homosexuality. Its sad, but its human nature. Perhaps we should attempt to broaden the terms "man" and "woman" instead? I'm not sure what the solution is to this, but I think we're going about it wrong.

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User voted Yes, there are more than two genders.
1 vote,
Sep 15, 2016

There were leper colonies typically even in the worst scenarios, often with provision of care.

The issue is that it's not our choice as to who wants to be called X or Y gender. It's theirs. The only salient question is, do we just accept that characterization or do we obstinately fight it? I can see no argument whatsoever for denying people at least the courtesy of using "they" or "it", if not actually just using the full lexicon.

And frankly, I've never been much convinced by the "bow down to the bullies" argument. Yes, people are closed-minded. No, that's not an inevitable fact of life, but even if it were, boots on necks is more disruptive than taking boots off of them.

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User voted No, there are only two genders: female and male.
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Sep 15, 2016

Yeah it should be common courtesy to at least use it/they, although 'it' might be a little off-putting to people. I think society is trying to take too many steps on this direction at one time, that is all. We can't treat two genders equally, let alone more. I slept on it and I think that maybe we should keep focusing our social and legislative powers to equal rights for women and homesexuals before we try to focus on more issues. I think more would get done that way.

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Jul 28, 2016

There are chromosomes defining your gender inside EACH fcking cell of your bodie. Stop being retarded and say i'm not feeling like a women/men so i'm not. you are just a men or a women that can't accept it. We can't do nothing about it but if it pleases you to lie to yourself go ahead.

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2 votes,
Jul 28, 2016

Gender ≠ genitalia

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User voted Yes, there are more than two genders.
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0 votes,
Aug 17, 2016

There are also genes that influence how people relate to their own body. Would you say that people who are diabetic shouldn't be accommodated because the genes of most individuals don't produce diabetes?

Are you the type of person who tells a person who identifies as black that they're really more of a brown shade?

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