Gender is biological not social

In this round, When I'm referring to "gender" I will be referring to the "internal sense of being male or female" and when I refer to "sex" I'll be reffering to the gentialia, Chromosomes and hormones. My opponent has made it clear that these two should be separated, So for the purposes of my argument I will. Whilst I agree that your gender isn't necessarily your sex, I still would like to make the case that gender is still based in your biology. Consider two children. They are raised as their sex, An exposed to societies gender roles. If they were now removed from such an environment into, Say, A gender neutral society, They would still identify with the same gender. The case I'm making is that their own gender identity is now hard wired into their biology. Whilst this change in biology may be because of society, The reason it is now their self identified "gender identity" is because society itself changed their biology. The case can also be made that those turnout to be "transgender" had a possible gene that caused a predisposition towards a change in gender. This "predisposition" of course, Would be considered as "biological. " Therefore a persons gender identity is actually hard wired into a persons biology. Let me elaborate. In the 1979 journal article by RK Unger called "Towards a redefinition of sex and gender"[2] she goes to talk about the lateralisation of the brain. She states that females earlier on in life have a much different lateralisation of the brain than later on, And how, Because of the toys give no to the females, Their actual biology is affected. Yes, At some point in time society affect the human person, But later in life our self formed gender identity is hard wired into our very own biology. (I'm sorry I can't reference the article here, Because it must be paid for and wouldn't be able to be read, But it can be found if you search "RK Unger Toward a redifiniton of sex and gender. ") In the terms of transgender people however, It seems to be the case that their gender identity is "hardwired" into their own brain [3], The same way that males and females brains [4] are lateralised in different ways. [1] So the common phrase of "male brain in a female body" may, In fact be true. Although society may haves some influence in the developement of gender identity, The actual idea of a persons own gender identity is a biological fact. If you wee to place a biological male, With a male gender identity, Into a place where gender is neutral that male would still consider itself a male. Even if society changes, Those who have a gendered identity will not change such identity as it I should now a part of their own biology. Your gender is biological because of the lateralisation of your own brain, Whilst this can be cause by society, We would still have lateralised brains even if society didn't exist. Society not only had influences on our brain, But also our very own genetics, Some theories say that there may be a "gene" passed through people as well to cause transgenderism, But that isn't too researched [5]. You can clearly see that whilst society may influence our biology, Once gender is hardwired into our own brain there is no change you can make to society to change it. Therefore, Gender is not societal, But biological. Sources 1. Neporent, L. (2015). Gender Identity is Biological, Study Says. [online] ABC News. Available at: https://abcnews. Go. Com/Health/gender-identity-biological-study/story? Id=29335854 [Accessed 5 Aug. 2018]. 2. Trotter, D. (2017). Born this way? Researchers explore the science of gender identity. [online] U. S. Available at: https://www. Reuters. Com/article/us-usa-lgbt-biology/born-this-way-researchers-explore-the-science-of-gender-identity-idUSKBN1AJ0F0 [Accessed 5 Aug. 2018]. 3. Unger, R. (1979). Towards the redefinition of sex and gender. American Psychologist, [online] 34(11), Pp. 1085-1094. Available at: http://psycnet. Apa. Org/record/1980-05376-001 [Accessed 5 Aug. 2018]. 4. Khazan, O. (2013). Male and Female Brains Really Are Built Differently. [online] The Atlantic. Available at: https://www. Theatlantic. Com/health/archive/2013/12/male-and-female-brains-really-are-built-differently/281962/ [Accessed 5 Aug. 2018]. 5. Goldman, J. (2014). How human culture influences our genetics. [online] Bbc. Com. Available at: http://www. Bbc. Com/future/story/20140410-can-we-drive-our-own-evolution [Accessed 5 Aug. 2018].