&gt; Gender is social and genetic. Pretending it&#x27;s exclusively one or the other is foolishly reductionist, no matter which side you&#x27;re on.<p>Gender (both ascribed gender and gender identity, though the two are distinct but related) is social but references, in different ways, biological sex; biological sex is phenotype, and as such a mixture of genetic and environmental (but not at all social, except to the extent that the elements of phenotype that are defined to be &quot;sex&quot; are, like all definitions, a social construct.)