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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
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.
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And I agree, however at this stage in the game that’s a bit like insisting ‘gay’ means ‘happy’. Language changes over time, and usually that’s an organic process. But in this case there has been a deliberate, well-concealed political-social movement behind it, and it has sought to confuse as much as to redefine the meanings of words.
For my part, I find that if I ever were to attempt to construct a sentence using the word “gender”, I know exactly how a certain section of the population would construe that and I prefer to give them no succour. Hence my position is that nobody has a gender identity; everybody has a sex (which is binary) and a personality (which is multi-faceted).