Gender Design: If I Was a Creationist God

If I was charged with the duty, obligation, and/or latitude to create different gender essences, as a creationist God, I would establish, as an informative ethical and empowerment template, gender equality, gender equity, and gender diversity – what aligns with and what we indefeasibly have now as a result of real-world evolution in gender, in the human species. To explicate, gender equality means women/female, men/male, and non-binary have equal power(s) overall; gender equity involves fairness despite differing abilities, and respective gender strengths (and weaknesses); and gender diversity is in the social relishing of differences in gender. It is only natural, that each gender is in awe of the others’ strengths, and at times, a little jealous of these abilities of ‘the others’.

As a creationist God on gender of the human species, with this duty of intelligently creating and designing essences of women, non-binary, and men, I would imbue the following gender traits (non-exhaustively):

Traits Exclusive to Women:

• Have more brain-based empathy, through a respective and dimorphic larger and more active anterior cingulate gyrus in the brain;
• Have mind-reading powers during intimacy;
• Have a capacity for pregnancy, and carrying life in the womb; and
• Arriving at truth through empathy.

Traits Exclusive to Men:

• Have more physical athleticism;
• Have more emotionally detached and emotionally less engaged brain-based abstract reasoning powers;
• Arriving at truth through more abstract reasoning;
• Emotions and empathy more attached to, and more augmented through, abstract reasoning, in compensating for a respective lack of brain-based empathy; and
• Have more brain-based gender specialisation in fight and flight responses through a larger amygdala in the brain.

Traits Exclusive to Transgender:

• Mixture of ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ traits, and on spectrums.

Traits Mutual to All Three:

• I would create the gendered-brains to have potential for, that is much coveted, (especially cultivated) telepathic powers¹, as an extension to empathic powers of all three, an ability equal to all three genders. This would be to reduce conflict, enhance communication and cooperative aptitude, and this would result in increased species’ fitness.

1. For some interesting cutting-edge scholarship on putative telepathy of extant humans, see the evolutionary scientists Professor Henneberg and Professor Saniotis’ section The Dragon’s Psyche: Exploring Non-Local Mind in their book The Dynamic Human (2016), Bentham Science Publishers, Sharjah. I quote from them: ↩︎

“Non-local mind can be defined as the ability of one mind to influence another from a distance, or knowing something that is beyond the grasp of sensory perceptions…[t]here have been approximately 900 studies conducted over the last sixty years on non-local ways of knowing [185]. Many of these studies were conducted in order to ascertain whether observers could affect matter [185]. The majority of these studies provide “independently replicable evidence that observers can affect the behaviour of physical systems” [185], thereby, supporting the probable existence of non-local mind. The sheer volume and veracity of these studies challenge cherished scientific myths of the falsity of non-scientific ways of knowing. This view needs to change.” (pp.107-8)