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From: johnt@tekecs.UUCP (John Theus)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Stop using 'gender' and start using the correct word - 'sex'
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Date: Sat, 17-Dec-83 14:53:30 EST
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Webster is not always right.  In the field of psychology, the words sex
and gender are not synonyms.

A person's sex is determined by their chromosomes.  A person's sex is either
male or female.

A person's gender is thought to be determined by a combination of their
environment and their genes.  A person's gender is either woman or man.

Obviously, for most people, their sex and gender match.  For people with
gender identification problems (transsexuals), their sex does not match
their gender.
					John Theus
					Engineering Computing Systems
					Tektronix, Inc
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