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Gender (Subjective, Phenotype) is to Sex (Objective, Biological Markers, Genotype)

similarily in what

Race (Subjective, Phenotype) is to Ethnicity (Objective, as Genealogy, Genotype)

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Effectively the left category becomes ‘identity’ and subject to ideation, whereas the right becomes ‘empirical’ and subject to observable metrics.

Thinking more about it; it almost makes gender and race completely redundant terminology (outside of discussing their concepts in retrospect, or theoretical exercise).

Subjective aspects - including aspects otherwise assosicated with Ethnicity such as cultural adoption or association - are ideated, which might suggest it deserving exclusion from Ethnicity as a category.

Phenotypical aspects i.e. skin pigment, hair / eye colour, feet size are visual traits - and increasingly expressions - sometimes resulting from conditions or medicalisation - not representit... (read more)