[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Chris

Actually you didn’t - you used the phrase “two biological genders” which conflates the terms “gender” and “sex”, and you didn’t use the word “sex” at all. Granted, your qualifying term “biological” meant it was fairly clear what you actually meant, but I believe it is increasingly important that we use extremely precise language in this area to counteract the deliberate muddying of it by genderists. There was once a time when you could assume the two terms, when used in everyday English, were synonymous, but no longer. IMO the word “gender” is best avoided altogether, except perhaps when discussing languages that assign gendered parts of speech to inanimate objects.

I understand your point, but I was brought up to understand the equivalence of gender/sex.

The separation of the two terms is a modern confection to suit certain social/mental situations that really ought to be more separately named.