I see both of them said fairly often and am confused.

  • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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    2 years ago

    The first one is fully correct. The second one is wrong but I think it's just bad phrasing and not deliberate. Breaking it into the two clauses:

    [sex and gender] are the same

    absolutely not

    and sex is on a spectrum too

    Yeah, but the wording here implies that what was meant by the previous clause is "[sex and gender] both exist on spectrums".

    Gender is the social presentation aspect and has infinite variations, and "spectrum" is a convenient way to refer to that. Sex is those parts of your biological makeup that determine your secondary sex characteristics, which is largely bimodal but also exists in degrees, like chromosomal differences, hormone production and sensitivity differences, and anatomical formation differences.