Whose views on sex & gender do you agree with more -- those of Jan Morris or those of Leonard Sax?

We agree largely with Jan Morris’ views on sex and gender.
Sex refers to physical differences of the body while gender is a psychological difference between male and female. We agree that many differences between male and female are not biological in origin. How females behave, or feminity, is largely determined by traditions and culture, which forms a stereotype of how females should be like. In the example Jan Morris gave, Morris said that “the more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became”.
Cultural and society influence is certainly very evident in the shaping of one’s gender. Society has a notion of how females should behave; for example, females are thought to be domestic and gentle, so since infants, females are given dolls and cooking sets, while boys are given war toys because they are expected to be more aggressive and rough. Because of the way society treats us by our gender, gender is largely shaped by society and culture instead of our biological composition.
Still, we cannot neglect the fact that our biological composition and physical differences of the body do determine the differences between males and females as well. For example, hormonal changes do determine one’s physical appearance and general behaviour.
However, gender holds a greater importance than sex in today’s society and the social gap between the sexes is narrowing. People are treated as females or males due to gender, more than sex as butches are treated as “man” and sex change operations can change one’s sex.
Thus we believe that cultural and societal influences outweigh the biological factor, given the fact that much of our behavior and character are affected by the society and the environment.

Cheong Li Min, Rachel Chin, Lim Shi Min, Sun Yi Yue, Tao Tao 09S03K