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Варя (Barbara)
Hello everyone! Please tell me which option is better: this one or the one in brackets: About gender self-determination [self-identification] You can define yourself [self-identify] as much as you want [all you want], drink hormones, cut off and sew on your organs, but a male [man] will never become a female [woman], and vice versa. Because a male [man] is a male [man] at the DNA level. Every cell in his body contains a Y chromosomes, and not a single cell in the female's [woman's] body has such a chromosome. And there's no way to change that [And this cannot be changed].
30 mars 2025 16:31
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Michael Madormo
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You seem to be really fixated with the gender binary. Why is that? I know many people who do not fit into a strict binary and even for those of us who do being so fixed on it is harmful. Life exists on a spectrum, and that’s a beautiful thing.
30 mars 2025 21:24
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Editor Anna 安娜編輯
Enseignant professionnel
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Most are pretty interchangeable, but if you go for 'define yourself', then you'd have to change it to something like 'as whatever you want'/'however you want', etc. I'd have a slight preference for 'male'/'female', etc over 'man'/'woman', etc, as the point you're making applies to boys and girls as well as men. I'd also go for 'And this cannot be changed' (this sounds more final and literary).
30 mars 2025 17:13
Варя (Barbara)
Thank you so much for such an understandable answer.
30 mars 2025 18:03 · Répondre
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Dan
Here's how I would write it, with my own style and grammatical preferences, not bound by the binary options that you've requested we choose from: On gender determination You can declare your identity all you like, drink hormones, cut & paste organs, etc. But a man will never truly be a woman, and a woman will never truly be a man. Because a man is male at DNA level. Every cell in his body contains a Y chromosome, while not a single cell in a woman's body has such a chromosome. And there's no way to change that. But! I would not actually write this, as it's not politically correct (it could get you 'cancelled'), and I'm not sure if it's technologically correct either (I don't know how advanced gene editing is, or will be in future).
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31 mars 2025 00:10
Dan
Plus, I believe X & Y chromosomes are not the only way to determine gender - they only determine a certain attribute of gender identity.
31 mars 2025 00:13 · Répondre
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Mara
Most of your options are synonymous and interchangeable. The pairs that are not synonyms are male/man and female/woman. But, I can’t choose for you which ones to use, because in this piece of writing, you are expressing an opinion. Some people believe in a rigid gender binary, while others disagree. To clarify how these terms are typically used in academic and professional settings: male/female are scientific, biological terms, whereas man/woman are social terms and identities. For example: Our cat gave birth to two male and two female kittens. A bar mitzvah is a ritual in Judaism in which a boy becomes a man.
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31 mars 2025 18:08
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Johnson Alex
This never been a necessary question to be asking you should know yourself better than anybody else ☺️
30 mars 2025 22:00
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