• Question: what is the difference between sexe and gender?

    Asked by anon-179990 to Abby, Amy, Noel, Sam, Viren on 15 Jun 2018.
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      Sam Burton answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      So,

      sex= based on physiology, such as sex organs, it makes you man or a woman, hence male or female.

      gender is a more psychological construct, so what a person identifies as, and how they display themselves. But this can be on continuum as people aren’t entirely male or female, and then some do not classify as either.

      Hope that answers your questions.

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      Abby Hunter answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      sex refers to your biological sex, i.e. what you are born with (male or female sexual organs)
      gender is more fluid and it is what someone identifies as, which may not always match up with their sex. e.g. a person with male sexual organs may identify as female in gender

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      Amy Warnock answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      This is a great question. As the others have said sex is based on your physiology and which genes and sexual organs you are born with. However it’s not always necessarily as simple as male or female – some people are born intersex which means they may have variations in sexual organs, chromosomes and sex hormones. On the other hand gender is what someone identifies as, and as Abby has said is much more fluid and may not match the persons sex.

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