race: language, skills, culture, occupation, interests and so on.22 But these latter categories are all changeable, and can be learnt or developed. Maleness and femaleness are fundamental: we are made as both male and female, and also as male or female.23 Thus being gendered is a basic facet of being human. Our being either a man or a woman emphasizes the distinct particularlity and value of each individual (cf. Gn. 9:6), while our being both men and women as human beings points to the relational