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    It is not the case that The sex/gender distinction involves multiple socially constructed categories that interact with one another

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    • 1.Biological sex is grounded in chromosomal, gonadal, and hormonal facts that obtain independently of social recognition or classification practices.
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    • 2.Anne Fausto-Sterling's conflation of intersex variation with sex's social construction commits a category error: statistical exceptions do not destabilize a natural kind's defining criteria.
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    • 3.If sex is a natural kind with mind-independent instantiation conditions, the sex/gender distinction marks a real ontological boundary, not merely interacting social constructions.
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    • 1.Judith Butler's claim that sex is retroactively constructed through gender performativity renders the original sex/gender distinction explanatorily circular rather than illuminating.
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    • 2.A coherent account of gender's social construction requires a stable, pre-social reference point—namely biological sex—to explain what gender is constructed upon or in response to.
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    • 3.Collapsing sex into social construction undermines feminist political goals by removing the material basis for explaining women's cross-cultural subordination.
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    • 1.Gender is a category of social norms and behaviors traditionally attached to sex
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    • 2.Some theorists argue sex itself is not purely biological
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    • 3.If both sex and gender have social dimensions, they constitute interacting socially constructed categories
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