Transcript: a 4 panel comic by Brooke Valley. A man is holding a sign saying “There’s only 2 genders”, Brooke walks in and says “Hmm?”, "You know, not only is that wrong and harmful… ", “It’s downright boring”.

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    9 months ago

    a subclass within a grammatical class (such as noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb) of a language that is partly arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics (such as shape, social rank, manner of existence, or sex) and that determines agreement with and selection of other words or grammatical forms

    Note that the definition says that biology informs, but does not define, gender. In fact, arbitrary is part of the definition. Further, dictionaries give us introductions to words, not a concrete and unchanging lexigraphical mandate