There Are Only 2 Genders

So you refuse to acknowledge my distinctions and debate the points I've presented. Fair enough. The audience will be the judge of how fair we are to each other. You are a sex=gender person. Please tell me why we have two names for the exact same thing. As I said, There are multiple definitions to every word. Gender, No matter which dictionary you look at, Will acknowledge that some people think it is purely based on sex usually as a 2nd definition. All dictionaries I've looked at it present it as a 'set of characteristics typically related to sex x or sex y. ' Language evolves over time, And there's no particular reason for me, Or many people, To accept that sex is a requirement for gender. It makes the distinction between sex and gender irrelevant, Therefore the two words should not exist, And we should simply use sex. Gender is now becoming, For the fraction of society who doesn't purely fit into the 'male boy' or 'female girl' categories, A more open question. None of them are disputing their sex outside of trans people. Trans people can make the claim that primary sex characteristics supersede chromosomes if they wish. Sex is largely chromosome related in addition to primary sex characteristics. If you are XX but have a penis, This is an open question on biological grounds, Particularly if science advances to make XX potent penises possible (probably only allowing female offspring), Or XY functional wombs. Alternatively, If chromosomes may be changed in the future. I should point out that there are more than just female or male if we're also accepting fungi, Birds, Et cetera into this discussion. I am making the assumption that we're speaking only of humans. In your way of viewing the world, You have to say someone is a 'feminine male boy' instead of just a 'male girl. ' It requires a mild amount of nuance to see the difference. You have a strange view of intersex people. Not all of them have any kind of 'disorder' of any sort. One set of primary sex characteristics may be dysfunctional, But that is hardly a serious disorder. If someone had a 3rd arm that was functional then, In my opinion, That person is not a victim of a 'disorder' but literally has a hand up on the rest of us. I'd love another set of functional arms. Same with 11 fingers. This isn't a 'disorder' unless your definition of 'disorder' is that 'doesn't fit my norm. ' It's a silly way to view reality. Things are only disorders if they impair the person's ability to function. The persons themselves are typically perfectly normal, Only their bodies are disordered, Or potentially superior, To ours. To conclude, You are a male based on your chromosomes and sex characteristics. Intersex people DO exist and fitting them to one gender or another is an extremely questionable practice. The term "boy" is useless unless we consider characteristics outside of sex. If we're requiring that they be 'male' there is no point to calling people 'boys' instead of just 'males. ' It would simplify our way of speaking. There is no justification for the terms boy and girl outside of thinking of characteristics outside of chromosomes and primary/secondary sex characteristics. To my opponent, They largely do not 'force' anyone to use their pronouns. Typically you will never know the difference. I promise you've referred to plenty of males with feminine pronouns before. I can guarantee you've called females by masculine pronouns before. It is silly that you accept changing your language when it comes to when people prefer to be called different nouns but not pronouns. It requires a world of more effort if you learn that someone was born male but dresses and 'passes' as female to change your pronouns to address that person by male pronouns than it does to address a passing person by the pronouns they prefer. It takes a modicum of effort for you to stop calling Richard Richard, But to address him as Dick. It takes a modicum of effort to refer to refer to people with pronouns that are not tied to gender rather than gender specific ones. In general, It is a matter of respect to the individual you are associating with. If you have no respect for those individuals, Then you won't spare the small amount of effort it takes to change the way you speak. That's okay. They won't associate with you, You won't associate with them. Your denial of their definition of 'gender' does not mean their definition of 'gender' is not valid, And it especially does not mean that their definition of gender does not exist. These people exceedingly rarely make a big deal of you using the wrong pronoun if you're making a genuine effort to not do so, Just as Dick rarely makes a big deal about you calling him Richard by mistake. If this debate is about my opponent's personal preference of the definition of 'gender' then he wins. I submit that the first definition of 'gender' is open to being interpreted to not have a limit of two genders, Much less that sex is a requirement to be one of two specific genders. Language changes over time. If you don't agree that's fine but that doesn't change that many people in society have agreed on this. If it is a question of the existence of multiple genders, There is no question. They exist. Your definition simply may not agree with that. To put it in your language, We see "feminine male boys" as a different stereotype compared to "masculine male boys" and we acknowledge that some males exist that don't strongly fit in with the stereotypes associated with 'boy. ' These are differences you acknowledge as well, We're just disagreeing on words to use to describe them. It's nothing more serious than that. If you are also a person who believes that sex = gender, The third 'sex' of intersex should be enough to qualify as greater than two sexes for this debate. Regardless of what my opponent mistakenly claims, Intersex people exist and do not fall purely into either male or female sexes. This is not a disorder by the common definition. If I were to present you a person with a fully functional penis and vagina, This would not be one of the two sexes you agree exist. This would be a third. I submit this is not impossible and can exist. Almost certainly, It will in the future. There is no grounds for Pro to disagree with more than 2 genders, The topic of this debate, Even biologically or scientifically. There are more than 2 combinations of chromosomes. There are more than 2 possibilities of primary sex characteristics. This cannot be denied outside of extreme mental gymnastics. Why try so hard to deny reality? Changing pronouns occasionally is far easier than refusing to acknowledge a third sex, Or endlessly debate about the definition of 'gender. ' You have to learn people's preferred nouns all the time. You don't view this as a difficult thing to do. Why is the additional RARE step of changing pronouns, When people's outwards appearance don't match their pronouns, So hard that we have to refuse to do so, When the refusal is only 1. Disrespectful and 2. Requires much more effort more often? May your thoughts be clear, -Thoht