Category talk:Animals by gender

Most of the category tree should be renamed to reflect the fact that "gender" is a social construct, while sex is a biological nomination based on role in reproduction. To elaborate: a transsexual person has conflicting gender and sex. --Pitke (talk) 19:58, 12 October 2013 (UTC) Wording edit. --Pitke (talk) 10:11, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

All human concepts are social/cognitive constructs trying to express, describe and label any objective reality. Also animals have their social behaviors and social roles which affect many aspects of their life. Not every male is the reproductive "alpha-male", not every insect female is the queen. We attribute "sex" also to non-reproductive animal individuals and castes. If you mentioned the congenital perception of sexual identity (which causes conflict in transsexuals), it is also a specific bio-psychological manifestation of a specific brain structure, not identic with a gender as a social role. The percepted sexual identity or sexual orientation is not more "socially constructed" than a strict dichotomy based on shape and size of genitals. All the labels are social constructs (concepts, models) which reflect and reduce the biological reality. Ambivalent, mixed or boundary characteristics in individuals are not a social construct but a bio-psychological reality, various social constructs try only to displace, deny or reflect and understand the complex reality.

In our case, the word "gender" is more definite because the English word "sex" is ambiguous, labelling not only a type characteristic (sorting) of individuals, but also coital activities as in Category:Animal sex. That's why the word "gender" was chosen for these categories. --ŠJů (talk) 15:01, 4 February 2017 (UTC)