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Originally Posted by Jake.Ashworth
I apologize if this ends up being unpopular, but realistically there are only two genders. Everything else is more of a state of mind/mental condition, more than it is a gender. As you can see by the poll, Male and Female are the only real options. The others couldn't really be considered genders, short of the very rare cases in which people are born with both sets, so maybe I would conceit to a third, but only if your born with both not if you surgically had one added.
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You're thinking of sex, not gender. Gender is a social construct whereas sex is formed from our genes. Which is too concise to be a total picture. A person's perspective is, of course, involved. For example: someone born with male sex organs, but feels they are completely a female might consider them selves female regardless of sex organs. Or they might call themselves intersexed(dash?). Or intersexed might mean to someone they were born with both male and female sex organs in varying developments, as well as exhibiting varying other physical aspects of female and male. I think the main difference is that gender is something we create ourselves where as sex is tied, but not limited to, genes.