Origin of Gender Concept

My commentary before the encyclopedia entry.

I don't see any need for controversy on this. I once knew someone with Androgen Resistance Syndrome, they were active in the trans advocacy scene in Olympia/Seattle, and we used to laugh and joke, totally cool person that was cool with me. And that's a key part of the mix, a person on any point, or points, on the sexual spectrum of possibilities has to be just as OK or more with me for the whole tolerance thing to be a thing. I'm an athletic hetero guy that's attracted to intellectual/athletic females with having babies as a big part of that turn on. You have nothing but good to say about that.

But really "cheering on and supportive" is a silly naive concept of allyship. The most enlightened stance is ambivalence along with peaceful coexistence.

Final personal point: Conservatives shouldn't be outraged at other's sexuality. Those with a sexuality that is not having children are in a voluntary extinction program. They pour money into our economy, and then gone.

Final intellectual point: The inventor of the gender concept also says that heterosexuality is ideological. Remember this is in the branch of psychology, not biology. Ideologies don't have babies, biologies do. A fine counter to hetero-is-deological and can be undermined by ideological change, is to be biological and have offspring. One step further is to make your offspring wealthy and fit. The multi-gender proponents can win the ideological war, then they age into a personal life of irrelevance, and then gone.

End personal commentary.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Money

John William Money (8 July 1921 – 7 July 2006) was a New Zealand psychologist, sexologist . He was one of the first researchers to publish theories on the influence of societal constructs of gender on individual formation of gender identity. Money introduced the terms gender identity, gender role and sexual orientation .

In his studies of intersex people, Money found that there are six variables that define sex. While in the average person all six would line up unequivocally as either all "male" or "female", in hermaphrodites any one or more than one of these could be inconsistent with the others, leading to various kinds of anomalies. In his seminal 1955 paper he defined these factors as:

1. assigned sex and sex of rearing
2. external genital morphology
3. internal reproductive structures
4. hormonal and secondary sex characteristics
5. gonadal sex
6. chromosomal sex

and added,

"Patients showing various combinations and permutations of these six sexual variables may be appraised with respect to a seventh variable: 7. Gender role and orientation as male or female, established while growing up."

He then defined gender role as;

"all those things that a person says or does to disclose himself or herself as having the status of boy or man, girl or woman, respectively. It includes, but is not restricted to sexuality in the sense of eroticism. Gender role is appraised in relation to the following: general mannerisms, deportment and demeanor; play preferences and recreational interests; spontaneous topics of talk in unprompted conversation and casual comment; content of dreams, daydreams and fantasies; replies to oblique inquiries and projective tests; evidence of erotic practices, and, finally, the person's own replies to direct inquiry."

Money made the concept of gender a broader, more inclusive concept than one of masculine/feminine. For him, gender included not only one's status as a man or a woman, but was also a matter of personal recognition, social assignment, or legal determination; not only on the basis of one's genitalia but also on the basis of somatic and behavioral criteria that go beyond genital differences.

Later he took the position that heterosexuality is another example of a societal and therefore superficial, ideological concept.