From: Jim Devine
c b wrote: > Biological definition of female sex: Can get pregnant, but only when > eggs are fertilized by male. > Biological definition of male sex: ?Cannot get pregnant, but are > necessary to fertilize females to pregnancy. so an old woman who's passed menopause isn't female? ^^^^^^ CB: Not a biologically functioning female. Her _gender_ is female. But gender is not identical with biological sex. A pre-pubescent girl or boy are not biologically female or male yet either. They are potentially biologically female or male. Young girls can't get pregnant. I've been waiting for this sort of response for a while since this issue comes up on LBO-talk from time to time. So, I have thought out my answer ( giggles). The fact that some individuals don't have legs , i.e. not bipedal, doesn't make them non-humans for moral or legal purposes. The fact that some individuals don't have functioning gonads etc. doesn't become a basis for discarding the biological definition of sex or render it an invalid biological concept. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
