[Niall]

Originally Posted by Jack_

Yeah I still don't get why people don't understand that gender is a social construct and totally different to biological sex, it's really not hard to understand

Gender, much like sexuality is a sliding scale spectrum and various people fall into different places along the line. Humans are not either/or and black and white entities, we're quite complex

Exactly! Finally someone else on here who gets it.

But yeah I was just thinking, and an example of gender being a social construct is dresses. 200/300 years ago in the aristocracy it was entirely normal for young boys to be put in dresses similar to those worn by girls. Nothing was thought of it. Flip forward to today and now dresses have shifted into becoming something that's strictly feminine. That is gender. It's fluid, it changes, and it's entirely determined by society.