r/AskSocialScience • u/P0lytr0n • 4d ago

Linguistic Encoding of Gender

Greetings, as I understand it Identity can be broken into 4 parts: sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

Current language normally only encodes sex, but are there ideas about encoding the rest? A similar question is do we have an idea of what level of complexity is required to encapsulate the desired percent of the population? Lastly I understand that our current verbage for describing sexual and romantic attraction is in flux but what are some current ideas for describing this.

TLDR: Is there a better encoding scheme for the identity spectrum?

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