Non-binary option for characters, please?

[Fynlar]

According to the Merriam's dictionary and a thesaurus they basically are.

Then they are wrong. Believe it or not, they are wrong sometimes.

Tl;dr "sex" and "gender" are interchangeable.

Nope.

That's not credible (or proof at all) proof that sex and gender are completely different.

Except it is? That's literally what defines a trans person, unless you're just trying to plug your ears and shut your eyes and pretend they don't exist.


EDIT: Woot, daily limit has been reached. Good night everyone!

If you aren't here to try to persuade people to see things from your perspective why are you posting in this thread?

Simple, because people are being wrong on the internet(!) and I usually feel compelled to speak up when that happens. It's not up to me to get people to listen. I've found that people will usually believe whatever they want.

It's also been quite enlightening to see how progressive (or lack thereof. regressive?) some folks here are.

You don't seem to be enjoying yourself.

Oh, I am, though. I wouldn't still be here if I wasn't.

Except it isn't. That's not what "defines" a trans person and saying sex and gender are interchangeable doesn't deny that they exist nor their struggles.

Sex and gender being interchangeable doesn't mean you have to be mean to a trans person. Every non tumblr trans person I met acknowledges and knows they're the same thing but it doesn't stop how their brain works and that's fine.

Insisting that sex is the same as gender is the equivalent of telling a trans person they cannot exist, because for them it is not the same. You must be operating on some pretty strange logic if you think that isn't a mean judgment to make of another person.


Every trans person I've ever met would not say they are the same, because that is exactly why they identify as trans in the first place.

Yep, it now has two meanings, it happens, words change and evolve. For yet another example see how gender and sex have gone from being interchangeable terms to being distinct terms with separate meanings...

No, it doesn't. People using words wrong does not change their meaning, end of story.


Likewise, sex and gender never were interchangeable. It's only been done (and is still done) because of ignorance as to their meaning.