Gender Binary?

[LeaP]

In a purely technical sense, you are either male or female! That depends on which sex organs you were born with!

Sorry, that's just not true. Different TECHNICAL aspects of physical gender also include secondary sex characteristics, chromosomes, hormones, and brain sex. That still leaves out gender identity from a psychological point of view.

A male may be born without a penis (penile agenesis). Doesn't make him any less male. Androgen insensitive women have male chromosomes but have female genitalia.

To the topic, the binary is a valid construct because it fits a super-majority of the population. TG/TS/IS are exceptions and, as Bree, Julia and others have pointed out, it describes even a lot of those. I also like Bree's care in separating out expression from identity. I.e., identity may be stated to be even more binary than expression, which is largely cultural anyway.

Lea