What is the real?
The real is the tangible and unchangeable truth of reality. It is not interpretive or perceptive, and remains consistent between viewers.
What are gender and sex?
The answer to that question depends entirely on the speaker. The most accepted answer is that sex is the biological existence and gender is the practice of societal roles and behaviors. The two extremes between these two points would be biological sex and gender essentialism. For proponents of biological sex, gender is a fabrication and all gender roles are informed by biology. Gender essentialists argue that sex is a fabrication and that gender/sex differences are performative. Other camps operate in-between the two theories, preferring a mix that supports specific modules.
The argument of is around gender and sex is complex in its implications. The first dichotomy is the selection of preference in gender or sex. Sex based arguments favor biology while gender based arguments favor societal impact (essentially a nature vs nurture argument). The second split relates to the feminine and the masculine. What traits are associated with which sex/gender construction, and how many of those traits have larger societal impacts? What it means to be a specific identity and how an individual became/is that identity is the end result of an inquiry into sex and gender.
Why is the gender/sex argument so contentious in relation to the real?
The way one person “is” affects everyone else, in that an” answer to the question of gender/sex cannot be intrinsic in it outcomes. If the world is one way, in the construction of the real, for a group then it is that way for everybody. For example, if sex is completely biological then societal impact doesn’t inform behavior. Likewise, if sex is nonexistent and societally constructed there is no naturalized state.
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