He repeatedly tried to show gender was societal conditioning, which led to the reimer “experiment” and following suicides of the twins that had their lives destroyed.
See this conflation is also not entirely accurate. Gendered language or how we describe it using the word gender is entirely to describe how other languages utilize language to express male or female. Gender in English is unique because we base our terms just as much from Greek as we do Latin. This is why gender has two root words, genos (Greek) and genre (French)
He repeatedly tried to show gender was societal conditioning, which led to the reimer “experiment” and following suicides of the twins that had their lives destroyed.
Hmm yes, it seems that he twisted the grammatical term "gender," which distinguishes male and female categories in Romance languages and others, into his pedophilic fantasy.
See this conflation is also not entirely accurate. Gendered language or how we describe it using the word gender is entirely to describe how other languages utilize language to express male or female. Gender in English is unique because we base our terms just as much from Greek as we do Latin. This is why gender has two root words, genos (Greek) and genre (French)