I read a simple poll question recently that asked "Are there more than two genders"? Loaded question these days. If I were to answer the question in a biological sense, I'd have to say that there are two genders, but that doesn't cut it in universities these days, and saying so will get you outcast. I'm sympathetic to the nuances of gender fluidity as it pertains to self-identification. There were a few gay kids in my elementary school who were definitely born that way, but it didn't make them female.
Just because you intrinsically identify with the opposite gender from which you were born doesn't make you that gender. While I do believe homosexuality is biological and transgenderism is also a biological force to a degree (people are born that way and often feel different as children), there is not a "third sex", is there? Am I missing a fundamental element in tis argument? Has a third gender been discovered?
The girls athletics debate- don't they have a point that it's unfair if a testosterone-fueled person with hairy testicles dominates an event as a "woman" or "girl"?