# Politically correct? A question of gender... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politically-correct-a-question-of-gender/219766 "2003-12-18T15:12:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GaterMouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f1d935/32.png) [@GaterMouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaterMouth)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politically-correct-a-question-of-gender/219766/41 "2003-12-22T01:27:18Z")
Just for fun [http://test.thespark.com/gendertest/](http://test.thespark.com/gendertest/) Politically correct? FUCK Politically correct! ---
**Author:** ![boofy\_bloke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@boofy\_bloke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boofy_bloke)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politically-correct-a-question-of-gender/219766/42 "2003-12-22T02:35:10Z")
Sex = penis, vagina, testicles, ovaries Gender = masculine, feminine, effeminate, heterosexual, camp Transsexual = Alteration of (e.g.) penis to vagina Transgender = Change from (e.g.) masculine appearance to feminine Spangender = partial change from (e.g.) masculine appearance to feminine Intergender = between the traditionally identified genders (i.e. masculine and feminine) Intersexual = between the traditionally identified sexes (i.e. male and female) Differently gendered = doesn’t fit into one of the two traditionally identified genders NB Male and female fit in gender and sex so I avoided them. New names are invented as people attempt to define themselves in a way that makes them comfortable. It applies to gender as with skin colour, nationality (Czech or Slovak?). Consider the gay community which has a lovely acronym - GLBTI or Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Intersexual - but only works if you happen to like that title. Some prefer Queer (eye for the straight guy). Some like Pink (dollar). To be more accurate the term would be “Not Necessarily Heterosexual”, but who wants to be defined according to someone else’s rules? Not to mention which, it’s pretty gay. Oops, unattractive. ---
**Author:** ![phraser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@phraser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phraser)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politically-correct-a-question-of-gender/219766/43 "2003-12-22T09:02:00Z")
> [@](#): > > **Ludovic** said: > We really need to nail down what “gender” is, especailly if, as I suspected, and phrasers quote confirms, it is something different from both physiological sex and traditional gender roles. I think that, for me, the only way I can define “gender” as I see it is to say that it’s outside of and different from physiological sex and traditional gender roles, but it’s subjective and something you have an inherent knowledge of (or not, since not everyone seems to) within yourself. I think attempting to define it further is just asking for a big headache 😉 ---
**Author:** ![danixa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@danixa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danixa)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politically-correct-a-question-of-gender/219766/44 "2003-12-22T11:39:36Z")
i was never aware of somebody actually _being_ gendered, not in that way. eeh, im not sure ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politically-correct-a-question-of-gender/219766/45 "2003-12-22T11:44:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KellyM \* > \*\*I was born transsexual, and thus transgendered. I didn’t become transgendered when I transitioned. \*\* And defeat of deduct went over defense before detail. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politically-correct-a-question-of-gender/219766.md?page=2)