Transforming: Gender, Trans Identity, and the Church with Austen Hartke
A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar
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What's the Difference Between Sex and Gender?
The concept of biological sex has been intertwined with things like race and class in very specific ways. In the early days of the US, when people like black African folks were enslaved, we had ideas about the fact that there was no such thing. And a black man was seen as having essentially a different gender than a white man in many ways because of the way that race played into those interactions. So I very rarely use the language biological sex. I would say like this, I would talk about the sex characteristics that you have. If you're a bioperson, if you're abiological person, then it's more important to look at your genotype or phenotype rather than saying biological
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