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On the Wikipedia page for the One-sex and two-sex theory, it says that "Gender, prior to the eighteenth century, was not prescribed upon individual; a man could be physically male, but he could have a feminine gender identity." How true is this?

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On the Wikipedia page for the One-sex and two-sex theory, it says that "Gender, prior to the eighteenth century, was not prescribed upon individual; a man could be physically male, but he could have a feminine gender identity." How true is this?	328