He claims that men and women are not that different from each other biologically when he writes: "With the exception of hormones and procreative organs, female and male human beings have similar bodies" (Lorber 727) . He also includes: “I am not saying that physical differences between male and female bodies do not exist, but that these differences are socially meaningless until social practices transform them into social facts” (Lorber 731). The social transformation of female and male physiology in a condition of inequality is well illustrated by the bathroom problem you examined. Lorber states, “Cultural, physiological, and demographic combinations of clothing, frequency of urination, menstruation, and child care add up to generally greater bathroom use by women than men” (732). Lorber provides a solution by suggesting that an equal number of bathrooms would seem about right. But equality would mean more women's bathrooms or allowing women to use men's bathrooms for a certain period of time. Lorber recognizes that human bodies differ physiologically, but are completely transformed by social practices to fit the major categories of a society. As a result, we see two distinct sexes and two distinguishable genders which are “male” and
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