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1 " Many people believe that gender identity...is rooted in biology...Many other people understand that gender is more like language than like biology; that is, while they understand us humans to have a biological capacity to use language, they point out we are not born with a hard-wired language " preinstalled" in our brains. Likewise, while we have a biological capacity to identify with and learn to " speak" from a particular location in a cultural gender system, we don't come into the world with a predetermined gender identity. "
