When you fill in an application form, you may sometimes see "Gender" but may also encounter the word "Sex". Nowadays, it is commonplace to use them interchangeably (交替地), however, they actually have different meanings and using them wrongly can be offensive (冒犯的) to sexual minorities (小眾).
"Sex" is the biological traits (特徵) that society associates with being male or female. In most cases, your biological sex was identified by the doctor at the time you were born. Yet, the definition of "sex" is no longer binary (雙的) as there are intersex people who are born with sexual characteristics that cannot fit the traditional definitions of either male or female bodies. For "gender", it is the cultural meanings attached to being masculine (男性的) and feminine (女性的). It seems to be abstract but in fact, every one of you DOES gender every day. Girls may wear dresses when boys usually don't. A lot of girls has long hair when boys are expected to have short hair. And how did your parents put clothes on you when you were new born? Probably in pink or blue (given that colours originally carry no meanings but their artificial (人造的) meanings are now socially accepted). There are a lot of phenomenons you believe they're natural but you gradually (逐步地) find that they are all shaped by society when studying sociology.
Can gender and sex be distinct? Yes! If you have a female friend who dresses like a boy and thus, is categorized (歸類) as a tomboy, there may then be a mismatch (錯配) between her gender and sex.
So, What are the differences between transGENDER and transSEXUAL? Have a guess and comment below!
-🖋Sociology minor, the University of Hong Kong
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