When we talk about gender, we normally tend to confuse it with sex. Gender and sex are different things associated with biology or culture. Even sex is referred to the biological differences between female and male, it can also be a social construct because it reduces an infinity of variations to the relation female-male. Gender is constructed since we are born, and it plays an important role in the decisions we make and the roles we play. Society tends to create patrons that influence the way we behave. We have been taught to be extremists to be one thing or the other when the reality is that there are infinite possibilities. The social factor, historical background, economic positions play a huge role in our lives because it highlights the differences between one person and another.  In my opinion, gender is a social construct because of the meaning it has been given to it. But the reality is that it doesn't have frontiers, or it is even classifiable because the spectrum is wide.

I completely agree with everything you have said. I also see gender as a social construct. Prior to European colonial influence, gender existed in pre-colonial societies as a completely different construct. If gender wasn't a social construct and was biological, then cultures around the world before this European imposition and influence would have had the same understandings of gender as the Europeans. However, Native American tribes had third and fourth genders (currently named as Two-Spirit), the Yoruba community in Africa used age as pronouns and only had sex i.e. can/can't bear children. However the roles within society were not assigned by a concept of gender, as gender did not exist in the way that we understand it.

The existence of non-binary or other gender-queer people is almost an exception that proves the rule. Cultures in India and the Americas had ideas of third or fourth genders. However just because they existed at all does not mean they weren't still the exception, rather than the rule. They were often considered "blessed" or "of the gods" because of their rarity. Furthermore, if gender is purely a social construct, then it partially invalidates transgenderism. Gender as a social construct means the association of a particular gender with a particular sex is merely constructed and can thus be socially reconstructed. That is, it implies that you could raise a boy as though they are a girl, and end up with a healthy girl. But we know from rather unethical experiments on raising identical twins as opposite genders that being raised as the wrong gender can be absolutely devastating. While gender and sex do not always correlate, and this should be respected, there is more to gender than simple social roles. And while gender falls on a spectrum, it is still very much a weighted spectrum. That being said, a good portion of what we think of as gender still IS a construct of demands and expectations that are placed on top of the gender "core". These demands and expectations should be re-evaluated and reduced.

**Is gender a social construct or biologically inherent? It depends on how you define sex and gender** • Gender is a concept that we use to interpret who we and other people are. It is generally understood in terms of the feminine and masculine, but can also be interpreted as a spectrum between these two binaries. At birth, we are usually assigned a gender in correspondence to our biological sex. • Many disagree as to whether gender is or is not merely a social construct. These differing views stem from opposing interpretations of sex and gender. • Some people view these terms as synonyms to mean the combination of our physical characteristics, identities, and sociocultural roles in society. Proponents of this view may argue that gender is inherent because they understand it as a matter of biology and psychology. • Others distinguish ‘sex’ as relating to our physical characteristics and ‘gender’ as relating to our identities and sociocultural roles in society. Proponents of this view may argue that gender is a social construct because its meaning is dependent on our interaction with society. Perceptions of what is masculine and feminine, including characteristics, societal roles, and behaviours, vary and change over time, throughout cultures and different places. Some believe that gender originates primarily from human desire to put things into categories.

Our bodies are designed to keep our brain alive and to reproduce, you need male and female bodies to do that (not including science), everything else is our own invention no matter what the views are.