Do not confuse sex with gender. Keep those separate from orientation. Sex is physical. Gender is learned. That is why men all over the world pretty much look like men and women look like women, even though their social roles change. The Amazon river got its name from the female warriors who greeted the Europeans by shooting arrows at them, even though in most cultures, men do the warring. Sex is not gender.

Moreover, we know from other life on this planet that sex is mutable. Some fish and frogs change their sex. Male geese will bond and build a nest, but never laying eggs, they never stop decorating it.

If we can identify all 6500 genes that determine sex in humans, then we can control them and more perfectly change our sexes as we change our clothes. After all, the necktie originally was women's wear.

Finally, do not confuse "equality" with "equivalency." Gender equality refers to rights (natural rights and social rights), such as the social right to vote or the natural right to own property. Both of those were denied to women on the ground that they were not "equal" to men.

The very notion of looking for equality and inequality of groups is in error.

I have enjoyed all of Annie Holmquists blogs that I have read. Thanks OUC