What is Gender? | Women and Gender Studies

Learn the basic definitions and dive deeper into how gender, gender identity and gender expression impact society and even your right to wear what you want.
SUNY Brockport's KaeLyn Rich and Milo Obourn break it down.
To learn more check out the Department of Women and Gender Studies
www.brockport.edu/academics/w...

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"Gender identity is the gender someone knows that they are."
And what is "gender"? You talk about "gender identity" (what "gender" a person *identifies* as) and so on, but you never actually give an objective definition for "gender" itself. And if there's no objective definition for "gender", "man" or "woman", then it's logically impossible for anyone to know what they are (be correct in using those terms).
Further, in listening to you talk about "gender expression", it seems you are confusing gender itself with one's inclination/disinclination to adhere to gender roles and norms. And if that's the case, then this definition isn't even workable with the rest of your worldview. After all, if someone identifies as a woman but adheres to the gender roles and norms of men, which one would they be?
"Everybody has a sense of the gender that they are."
Unfounded. Indeed, the very notion of sensing your gender seems incoherent, since none of us have a basis for that comparison. We've all only been just the one gender, so we'd have no way of knowing the difference between "feeling like" a man vs. "feeling like" a woman, or indeed if there is such a difference at all.
Sex (which is not merely assigned but observed and recorded) and gender are one and the same, and we've known this for a long time now. It's the very reason the roles we're expected to play based on our biological sex are called "gender roles" to begin with.
"Trans people have always existed."
So have people who believe the Earth is flat. Doesn't make your worldview any less incoherent.