Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was considering: sex & gender options and realized that the only > reasonably non-changing question would be 'sex chromosomes'[0] which can > be XX or XY (unless gravity or any person with relevant info can add to > this).
Sex chromosones in humans can, indeed, be found in several combinations other than XX or XY (XO, XXX, XXY, XYY, XO/XY, XX male, and XY female at the least), and we don't even know for sure that the full set of possibilities is enumerable. Also, sex chromosones aren't the same thing as gender. Generally speaking, and this is a difficult area of language in which all generalizations are suspect, "sex" is a statement about a biological property and "gender" is a statement about a social property. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
