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How would an eliminative materialist explain gender?

I studied philosophy of mind as an undergraduate, and with recent discussions about trans issues in philosophy more broadly, I've been thinking about how different philosophers of mind would explain the experience of gender.

An eliminative materialist, it seems to me, might argue that the concept of gender is too interwoven with folk-psychological concepts to make much sense, and a more advanced neuroscience or cognitive psychology would result in a very different way of talking about gender.

Similarly, I wonder how an illusionist theory of consciousness would account for certain ways of talking about gender. Gender obviously involves much more than just a person's inner experience, but at least part of it involves a reference to some kind of inner quality to which we have introspective access. The illusionist wants to deny that this sort of thing happens, so what would the illusionist description of gender be? 

Have any eliminative materialist or illusionist philosophers of mind discussed these issues?
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Eliminative materialism is mostly just writing blank checks for future science to cash. They're not really in the business of explaining things. They're just suggesting that in the future, completed neuroscience will explain things. So to the extent there's anything to be explained here, it's not an explanation the eliminative materialist is going to say they can give you. That's a job for scientists years from now.