re: God dictates gender, which does not exist on a spectrum and cannot be changed

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Gender roles are decidedly NOT binary, and this has been confirmed by anthropological studies of hundreds of cultures throughout human history and prehistory.

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oh my. here we go with yet another misguided hank adventure.

you are also using contemporary nomenclature that is flawed. gender is binary despite what contemporary society says. epigenetic traits that people have are not binary. however, epigenetic traits do not determine the kind of behavior a person must have. they are proclivities. they do not have to be acted upon. just because some misguided people have decided to respond to life pressures with unhealthy coping mechanisms does not mean biology just gets rewritten.

now, a culture might choose to make social allowances for homosexual activity, which has happened in history, but those are affectations and nothing more. they don't do anything to make homosexual activity normative. i suspect your responses will necessitate that i point you to resources regarding sexual practices of ancient mediterranean societies. the gay community has been misled on this matter.

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I have never understood why so many people continue to insist that the concepts of sex and gender MUST be coextensive in all cases

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um, because science and stuff?

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they HAVE historically been basically coextensive in OUR Western culture for many years

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you are probably going to be surprised at what you learn from ancient cultures. it wasn't as normative as you seem to think and as the gay community thinks. but learning that actually requires academic research and those people are operating at a popular level.