What's the difference between sex, gender and sexual preference?
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Please tell me you are kidding....otherwise, you need to get off the computer and get back to class.\n\nSex= 2 definitions....first one is obvious...the other definition is another word for gender...meaning female or male\n\nGender= see above...male or female\n\nSexual Preference= whether you are straight, bisexual, homosexual.  Whether you like people of the same sex/gender, different sex/gender, or both
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click on the preferrences tab at the farthest right and choose change gender from there you can choose what you want
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Are you male or female?
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I'm not sure what you mean by "normal" - if it's for homosexuals and heterosexuals, that covers just about everyone in the world.\n\nHomosexual = someone who is interested in their own gender\nHeterosexual = someone who is interested in the opposite gender
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I love these questions- gives me a chance to straighten out many misconceptions about what transsexualism is all about.\n\nOK, first- some definitions-\n\nSex is between the legs.\nGender is between the ears.\nSexual orientation is who you want between the sheets.\n\nYour gender is the sense that you are male or female- it's who you identify as. Sex is the outer part of the body- it's the body you are born with. Sexual orientation is who you are attracted to sexually- who "turns" you on.\n\nMost of the time, sex and gender match each each other, the person grows up with a male gender and whose sex is male, and they think of themselves as a man. You think of yourself as a man, not becuase of the parts between your legs, but because you know that your internal gender is male. If you were put in a sensory deprivation tank, and all feeling of your body was removed, you would still think of yourself as a man.\n\nSometimes, a person is born whose gender is female, but their sex is male. Contrary to what others tell this person, inside their mind, this person is female. This person is not happy at all with having male parts attached to their body, and this is called transsexualism, or basically crossed sex.\n\nNow, if the person has an internal female gender, but a male body, this person is called a MtF (male to female) transsexual.\n\nIf the person has an internal male gender, and a female body, they are called a FtM, or female to male transsexual.\n\nTranssexuals ARE NOT:\n\n1) crazy\n2) obsessed with sex\n3) a chick with a d*ck (an insulting term)\n4) a man who wants to be a woman (they are women inside)\n5) gay (generally yes, but if a person transitions from male bodied to female bodied and they still desire women as sexual partners, they are technically gay)\n\nTranssexuals ARE or HAVE\n\n1) a medical, not a mental problem- most transsexuals test perfectly normal on psychological tests for their gender\n2) people with a unique set of issues\n\nSome terminology:\n\nPass: to look so much like a woman that people just assume they are women.\n\nQuestion: Why don't you see the really pretty transsexuals- don't they all look like men in dresses?\n\nAnswer: Some transsexual women are physically so much like a woman that unless a chromosome test is administered (to detect XY male, or XX female), you couldn't tell them apart from any other ordinary woman.\n\nSome misconceptions about transsexuals, especially MtF transsexual women:\n\n1) You can't tell some one used to be male or not from the absence or presence of an adam's apple- some women, like me, never had one.\n\n2) A very passable transsexual woman can wear a skimpy bathing suit and look just like any other woman.\n\n3) The "parts down there" look very real- many a gynecologist has examined a transsexual woman and just thought she was a hysterectomized female.\n\n4) Not all transsexuals have deep voices- a lot of them are well inside the female range- also, it's not so much how you sound, but how you say things that makes the difference-women have different speech patterns than men.\n\n5) Transsexual women can wear perfume and it won't smell weird, like a man wearing perfume.\n\n6) Some transsexual women have naturally wide hips and walk just like a woman- they even swivel their hips when climbing stairs.\n\n7) Just because someone got good at acting male, doesn't mean that it comes naturally to them- it's just an act.\n\n8) The cost of a sex change operation costs between $6,000 in Thailand, and $18,000 in the States.\n\nAs for the erection question- after about 6 months of continuous hormone therapy, getting and/or maintainig an erection is difficult, if not impossible.\n\nSome of these women never took hormones- they just got breast enlargements to satisfy a fetish about being a woman-these people's gender is male, they are just turned on by the idea of being half and half. THEY ARE NOT TRUE TRANSSEXUALS and t
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Personally, whatever a person decide is his/her sexual preference, that is their business. I don't impose my  preferences about anything  on them, and I expect them to respect my preferences. Live and let live.
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There is a very fine line between both terms:\n\nBoth, overall, indicate someone who believes they are a different sex than they were born into.\n\nClassically though, transgendered meant someone who feels they're in the wrong body but just acts the opposite sex or desires to be the opposite sex. Transsexual referred to someone who surgically or chemically undergoes changes to be more like the opposite sex.\n\nOr alternatively, someone who feels they fall between sexes but don't feel discretly male or female.\n\nAs simplistic as the above is, the issue is compondounded further because the terms are used interchangably. Some refer to both classes as transgendered, feeling the need to remove the "sex" reference in the name, but there are transgendered people that don't feel they fit the category of transsexual, ie, they do not wish to change sexes.\n\nOn the flipside, some transsexuals reject the transgendered term all-together.\n\nWikipedia has an excellent article when it comes to trying to differentiate between transgendered and transsexualism, but in the end, it means slightly different things to different people.
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The phrase act of man connotes sexism. It is not gender sensitive.\n\nThe human act is gender sensitive phrase. It is acceptable to gender sensitive persons
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Hypothetically:\n\ndisposition\nintelligence\nsexual preference\nmental health
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Penis and testicles.\n\nP and T AREN'T masculine?  What....???
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kinda throws a kink in the debate about homosexuality hermaphrodites can be either male or female only a genetic test at the beginning of their life can tell as they get older and go through puberty their true sex becomes evident
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I just saw an article today in the paper that said men's sexual preference is decided before birth. I did not read the whole article...but if a baby comes out of the womb and sees good window treatments he is gay...just kidding. I dont think you should categorize that evil is done by most straight people and good by gays. I have seen a little of both from both sides... I don't think sexual preference has anything to do with the good that you do- that is an individual thing that comes from the heart not your groin. Just be happy with who you are and if you think you were born gay then so be it. Why is important to debate it? You will never change other opinions who are homophobic.
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Bi-sexual female\nLesbian\nBi-sexual male\nGay man\n\nIn that order.  Many men are obsessed with 3-somes, so the first isn't that bad.  They also like looking, so #2 isn't terrible either.  People generally discriminate against #3,4 because they think it's not so great.  From a woman's point of view, they're more equal.  I'm not sure where the ranks would be.  For me, I don't really mind any of the 4.\n\nOf course, it's relative.  Lots of people disagree with all 4.
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Homosexuality isn't a race, it's a sexual preference.
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it all depends on the guy. \ndifferent guys have different preferences, fetishes, etc.\nbut for me, hair, eyes, then the body.
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Do you want laypersons terms that the general populace might be able to comprehend, or do you want upper level comprehension? :O)~\n\nIntersexes are either genital shapes and sizes not congruent with current dominant standards of genital shape and size preferences.\n\nIntersexes are also people whose chromosome patterns might not be xx or xy (such as xxy or xxxy, or xxxo, or xo, or mosaic meaning a mix of chromosome patters across different cells)\n\nIntersexes are also a mix of both of the above two options.\n\nThe thing about labeling someone intersex, is that when people from the medical community are deciding whether or not to label someone intersex, they often fluctuate as there is not set standard of criterion across the board. \n\nSome use size standards, such as a phallus that is larger than .9cm is too large for a female, therefore if the doctor feels that the [infant] should have been female according to the doctors preferences looking at genitals and /or chromosomes etc the doctor might trim the phallus or remove it (social construction of the female sex)\n\nAnd if the phallus is smaller than 2.5cm and/or the doctor feels that the [infant] would be unable to stand while urinating as an adult, on an [infant] the doctor feels should have been male according to the doctors preferences looking at genitals and/or chromosomes etc, the doctor might choose to do genital reconstructions and possibly hormone replacement therapy to construct the [infant] as a female regardless of chromosomes etc.\n\nSex is on a spectrum, you see, where the categories of male and female are not static, meaning, not absolute categories, but rather made up of cultural preferences, they are invented labels put on varrying places on the sex spectrum in order to validate a cultures claims of categories of sex, to perpetuate the segregation of human beings.\n\nIntersexes are often marginalized or stigmatized by societies in order to preserve the western binary gender and sex systems which declare that there are only two sexes, and only two corresponding genders, that both are biological, and that the placement of certain sex and gender labels on human bodies mean something, signify something, often socially and religeously. For this reason, many intersexes are subjected to cosmetic surgery, isolation, shame, discrimination, invalidation, and less access to vital medical care and information about their bodies. And often when they are given medical care or information, it is in such a way that highlights cultural preferences/standards for "male" and "female" and downplays the validity of a natural human body which does not conform to these cultural preferences.
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there is only one: sexual attraction to the same sex.  Other than that homosexuals come in all shapes, sizes, colors, masulinities/femininities etc.