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Considering the number of completely distinct societies we have available is very, very low, it would be pretty tricky to completely disentangle the aspects of gender that are influenced by neurochemistry (and to what degree that influence is determinative) from those which are merely societally influenced. Probably the balance is somewhat more towards societal construction, given the sheer number of silly things we attribute to gender, but there's definitely a physiological aspect in there. But it's fuzzy enough, and the process to derive it is funky enough, that there's no real compelling reason to grant it any real weight. If people feel like being something weird and made up, then whatever brah, what's the point of living in a decadent western hegemon if we can't afford our people the luxurious freedom to self-identify as a gay cactus if they want to? And of course people with incompatible neurochemistry and/or societal presentation and/or genitals are common enough and sufficiently historically documented that we can pretty well say for certain that this is a problem that appears in all societies and it behooves us to set up ways to deal with it that are supportive and understanding.
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