Is there really such a thing as a third gender?

Question

Are Hemaphrodites and Transexuals a third sex (gender)?

Answer 1

Yes, science has indeed found through post mortem study of DNA and Brain make up there are infact those who are Third gender!

Most are familiar with the basic two gender idea, but are completely ignorant of the fact that DNA chromisomal make up comes in more that just the mere: XX and XY flavors

There are also: XXY, XYY, XXX and XO...making up "Turner syndrome, " "Klinefelters syndrome," "Triple X Syndrome" and others.



These comprise most intersex and transsexual individuals.

What bothers me is the sheer lack of willingness of any of the previous respondents to simply look up these easily found facts.

Answer 2

Intersexuals are most certainly a third sex. However, that's not the main focus here. I'll like to say sex and gender are not the same thing despite being used interchangeable. This is usually not even thought up of very deeply except when it comes to the issue of intersexual and transgender people. I'll just mostly go over gender here.

I'll also say there is in fact a third gender. Gender is not as simple as male or female. How would we define what makes a living being male or female? Gender could be broken up into role and identify. I should note that these can vary depending on what culture you're in. Gender role is how a gender is expected to act and what tasks they are usually given. Gender identify is more personally and how oneself views oneself in terms of gender, which is most cases is usually male or female that matches with their gender role and sex. This is the key factor in there being a third gender.

Gender is also not as simple as masculine or feminine behavior. For example, a tomboy might have more masculine behavior then feminine, but she's still considered female (including considering herself that) and while she might act similar to males, her expression and appearance might still be that of a girl or woman. On the other hand, a transgender or transsexual person might still have the body of their birth sex, but their expression and appearance might go to the point where their considered to be of the opposite gender from their sex.

Omnisexuality/Pansexuality goes beyond simply male and female, for people that might have a sexual attractive for intersexuals, transgendered people, genderqueers, and anything else not of the binary man or woman system. It's realizing that not everyone fits the male or female binary gender system that we're heavily taught is there and the only truth. Most cultures and nations might not realize anything beyond male and female, including pronouns, but their there. Third gender pronouns are very debatable among such communities.

This is what I believe I personally fit, a third gender, or rather, Androgyny, not male or female like society says I do. Hence, I'm rather uneasy at times when you're forced to say your male or female and even more so if it has to be public view. I don't wanna wear a big male or female label even if 98% or 99% of people have no such problems.

Answer 3

Sex and gender are not the same thing. Sex is the physical configuration of one's body, particularly the sex chromosomes and genitalia. Gender, on the other hand, is a social construct that has to do with roles, behaviors, and cultural norms.

Depending on whom you ask, hermaphrodites and transsexuals could be either male or female, or neither, or both. Western society only really recognizes two genders, but other cultures have a third one, such as the Hijra in India.

Answer 4

I don't think so, because transsexual persons go from one gender to the other, based on which gender they feel they are, and hermaphrodites are both sexes...

So if there is a third gender, it would have to be one that does not have the relation to male or female as these do. Maybe an asexual being? Or something we have yet to discover...

Answer 5

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Answer 6

No there is not a third gender thats my first response to the question..But then you got me thinking I know a hermorphadite a women with a penis or vice versa they have the option of being either male or female hmm

Answer 7

There are only 2 genders: Male and Female.

Answer 8

No. Gender is primarily "a grammatical category used in the classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on characteristics such as sex or animacy and that determines agreement with or selection of modifiers, referents, or grammatical forms."

It is also the condition of being (1) male or (2) female. That's two, and just two. Anything else is just semantics, i.e. "I feel like neither of those definitions really fits me, and so I shall make up another definition and declare it valid."

Answer 9

Yes. the third gender has tentacles.

Answer 10

there is no third gender