-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 04:15:53PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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. Hi Russ, thats for the elucidation... Now I'm even more confused x-) I'm blinded by science!(thanks to thomas dolby). More to ponder in the comming year. cheers, Kev - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | 'under construction' | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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