The concept of sex and the concept of gender are the same.

Answering the question of the topic, Yes, Sex and gender are the same. Genetic gender and identity are not. My rival says "These aren't arguments, These are indisputable facts". Let's analyze if that's true: "Both of these genders have pairs of chromosomes that make them this way. Females with two X chromosomes and males with one X and one Y chromosome. " The pressence of the chromosome Y is what differenciates gender, Not both. People with XXX are female, While people with XYY or XXY are male. "If you are a transgender woman (A man who thinks he's a woman). . . " "If you are a transgender man (A woman who think's she's a man)" Transgender people doesn, T think they are the opposite sex. They identify themselves with the social roles of the opposite gender. This point is very important. ". . . Who has experienced surgery and HRT, All of your cells still say you are a male, With the exception of his sperm cells" Your cells have instructions to balance hormones differently, That gives the person female or male traits, Biologically speaking, Not behaviouraly (does that word exist? XD) "Any studies have shown that the attempted suicide rates in transgender people pre-surgery sits at around 40%. The same studies show that post-surgery, The rates are ALMOST PRECISELY THE SAME. This is the main reason that I think that gender identity disorder/gender dysphoria is a mental illness and should be treated as such. " No study relates being transgender with suicide, You do, And that, S not objective. Studies says that anxiety, Mod and depression caused by rejection by family and friends, Discrimination, Victimization, Violence or the presence of a prevalent mental illnes (that, S not beng transgender) causes this rate of suicide. In fact they are subjected to factors that also affect non transgender people when talking about suicide, Like education, Economic income, Romantic life and social aceptance. "THe surgery isn't the cure, Because suicide rates remain the same" In fact people can tell when a transgender person has got surgery and discriminate them like before the surgery (page 8 from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention PDF about Suicide Attempts among Transgender and Gender Non-Confirming Adults") Also they have higher suicide rates if they already had a mental illness previously, Something that raises the statistics (p 10) "You might say, "it's society's fault, Because they discriminate against trans people, " and to that I respond, The only comparable rate of attempted suicide in HUMAN HISTORY is that of Jews under German-Austrian rule during WWII. I can 100% assure you that transgender people in today's society don't have it worse than Jews in WWII. " Because of my answer on the last sentence, Assuming that society IS the problem is still viable. Also you assume that ALL people experience things the same way, And thats wrong. Discrimination does incress the % of attempt of suicide (Page 11)Tables show suicide prevalence from 50% to 78% in those cases. That, Compared to the 40% total (who did suicide) means that the transgender people who have not suffered from discrimination have very low suicide rates (and attempt rates) that lower the media of the suicide percentage by 10% to 38%. That means (by my calculations, Correct me if im wrong on this) transgender who haven, T been discriminated have a suicide rate NOT of 40% BUT between 30% and 2%, Being the media of 15%, The NORMAL suicide rate. The conclusion is that being transgender has still not being proved objectively to be a mental illness. And even if there were a mental problem where a person is unable to feel like belonging to a specific gender, That doesn, T mean that every person with the same symptoms (feeling like belonging to the opposite gender in this case) leads to the same condtion (condition that can or cannot be an illness)