Gender

Gender is a set of characteristics distinguishing between male and female or masculine and feminine, particularly in the cases of men and women. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity, with a distinction drawn between biological sex and gender as a role.

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* sex
* trans
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Virginia Woolf
“ When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems withou ...more ”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Jess C. Scott
“ Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals. ”
― Jess C Scott, Tongue-Tied

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