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[image description: meme of two men from the tv show “american chopper” yelling at each other. older man: “sex and gender are two different things” younger man: “yeah you can be biologically male but identify as a woman!” older man: “no calling trans people biologically (blank) is invalidating” younger man, throwing chair: “so you’re saying sex and gender are the same then!” older man, pointing finger and yelling even more angrily: “no what i mean is they are both socially constructed categories that are different but intricately linked in our society so we should respect how people choose to be referred to in both categories. “male” is a gendered term in our culture so we shouldn’t use it for a trans woman if she doesn’t want us to! but to say they are the same exact thing leaves out people who identify differently, such as some intersex people who identify as men or women, and some nonbinary people who also identify with their sex assigned at birth.”]