Here's the 32nd verse, from chapter 9 of Shrimat Bhagavat gita.
मां हि पार्थ व्यपाश्रित्य येऽपि स्यु: पापयोनय: | स्त्रियो वैश्यास्तथा शूद्रास्तेऽपि यान्ति परां गतिम् || 9.32
TRANSLATION (Bhagavat Gita As it is)
O son of Prtha, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth-women, vaisyas [merchants], as well as sudras [workers]-can approach the supreme destination. 9.32
Now this verse has been a source of controversy as it seems, in some translations and interpretations, to say that souls are born as women because of their sins. But keeping that controversy aside for a moment and let's continue with the interpretation objectively.
This is following extract from Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya, translated by Nagesh D Sonde
The acts of merits and demerits of people being according to each one's attributes, the stage of a man of Wisdom and others are also normal according to their attributes and so is their deliverance. A male is born again as a female because of desires or some demerit. A female is never born as a male because of attributes but they reside within the male body alongside the male form in a spiritual female form. These spiritual female forms are unlimitedly superior to those who have taken female forms due to the demerit of desires. All Jivas attain the body of skin and flesh according to their attributes. In liberation, even after experiencing the effects of prior karmas, each one lives according to their true attribute, even the statement merits even for those born in evil-wombs can be accepted, because of the declaration in Bhavishya Purana.
Here it seems to say male souls are born as females because of their sins. But female souls are not born as men as result of their merits. Instead they will inhabit a male body in spritual female form...?
What exactly does this all mean?
According to Dviata, jeevatma or soul has its guna and swabhava unchanged.
1. Is gender an unchangeable attribute of the soul? Are there male souls and female souls which are eternally that??
2. Only male souls are born as women, but women souls are never born as men? So all men now can be sure that they are a male soul, but women can be either a male soul or female soul?
3. Also when a woman soul, due to her merits, inhabits a man body alongside another male soul? So are there two souls in one body. So can some men have two souls, one male soul and one spiritual female soul? If so does the female soul has any agency and decision making capacity or all the decision is made by the male soul and female soul simply sits by and experiences life?
