Petition against the deterioration of women's rights through sex-gender confusion

This petition is inspired by some recent events, including legislative initiatives aimed at changing the legal gender at the mairy in France. By any definition, gender is a cultural concept, not a biological one. Gender is culture, it represents the totality of cultural attributions associated with a certain biological sex. The gender is different from era to era, from culture to culture. Some "female" duties are considered "male" in some cultures, and vice versa in others, especially when it comes to traditional occupations. Women farm or fish, build houses or weave. Or exactly these activities are for men in another culture.

Gender, culture, is grafted onto biology, which is immutable. The human species has not changed in the last 6000 years (even more), so neither the sex, the attributes of one sex or another have changed. During all this time, the gender has varied greatly, in forms known or less known, recorded or not historically recorded.

Gender studies should be related to cultural studies, to cultural anthropology. But in traditional patriarchal societies, it is known that gender, i.e. the cultural attributes associated with one sex, especially the female one, are oppressive. The gender is oppressive. Talking about gender as something fixed is unscientific, but also oppressive. You are not talking about the history of the slave condition, associating this condition with the identity of a person.

Contrary to this idea, sex is measurable, detectable. Each cell in a woman's body has a biochemically analyzable characteristic (sex chromatin) which clearly and measurably distinguishes it from every cell in a man's body, which in turn have other characteristics, to which triggers an immune response from a woman's immune system. Women produce antibodies against male cells, which is known in transplant medicine. Women are women starting at the cellular level. Men, the same. We are born female or male. At the moment there is no technology that could lead to sex change. We can change our gender, that is, we can change the female or male gender through social changes that lead to cultural changes. Gender change is a goal related to social progress and is primarily related to feminism, the civil rights movement, etc. Gender studies should be called "women's studies."

Women in history have been associated with different forms of the female gender, but they were women, regardless of their sexual orientation. The same for men, who were also oppressed and still are, in the name of socially imposed gender. But because history has neglected the progresd of society from the point of view of women, historical, cultural, anthropological studies centered on women could repair this injustice, enriching the human culture. The cause of the oppression of women, which led to the emergence of gender with patriarchal characteristics, was the biology of women, that is, their inferior strength, some reproductive characteristics, etc. They could be oppressed by gender because of their sex, because of their biology, which allowed their vulnerability. Women still have lower physical strength than men, long and difficult pregnancies and difficult births, and the need for human babies to be cared for is longer than in other animals. Women's rights must include sex, not gender. So are the studies about them. Mixing women into "gender" is just another form of ignoring them and their needs.

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