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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are only 3 genders...male, female, and mental illness.[/quote]

If you want to live your life like that, then you should live your life like that. However, I hope that you will be polite to everybody. Also, please be aware that, if you are rude to people for being their gender wrong (according to you), there are plenty of people who will have a low opinion of you as a consequence.[/quote]

Only people who haven't taken a biology class. There are only men and women. Men have a penis and women have a vagina. PERIOD[/quote]
That's biological sex. Sex and gender are different things, regardless of people talking about their fetus's "gender." (They mean "sex." It's just weird for some people to use the word "sex" when referring to a fetus.)[/quote]

No, they are not. If you had any inkling of real science beyond about 7th grade, you might have some recognition of how idiotic you sound [/quote]
Hm, what's your scientific background? While I don't have a ton of formal scientific education past high school--where I did take AP bio, chem, and physics--I do have some college-level scientific education, and I make a point to read research on my own.

Here's a paper from the APA outlining the definitions of terms we've been using in this discussion, including [i]sex[/i] ("a person’s biological status and is typically categorized as male, female, or intersex (i.e., atypical combinations of features that usually distinguish male from female). There are a number of indicators of biological sex, including sex chromosomes, gonads, internal reproductive organs, and external genitalia.") and [i]gender[/i] ("the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person’s biological sex. Behavior that is compatible with cultural expectations is referred to as gender-normative; behaviors that are viewed as incompatible with these expectations constitute gender non-conformity.")
https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/sexuality-definitions.pdf

In addition, there are people who are born with different chromosomes than XX and XY. For example, here's a website about Klinefelter Syndrome, one sex chromosomal abnormality: https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/klinefelter-syndrome[/quote]

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