Sex varies in humans; gender identity is a separate thing
Dr Helen Webberley on Times Radio: the gender debate, with Jo Coburn, Times Radio
Sex is simple and binary: you are either male or female, full stop, and that biological fact is what determines everything else. Gender identity is just a feeling layered on top of it, and the two are really the same thing described differently.
What I was pointing to there is that sex itself, even on its own terms, is not the neat binary people assume. Chromosomes vary, reproductive anatomy varies, sexual function varies, and bodies are made in more ways than two. That is not ideology; it is basic biology. And once you accept that, the next step becomes clearer: gender identity is something distinct from all of it. It is not a feeling layered on top of biology; it is how a person knows themselves, how they live, how they move through the world. The two things are related but they are not the same, and conflating them is what causes so much of the confusion in this conversation.
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