We still have no word for the, uhm, “soft” gender to differentiate it from the biological gender?
Sex. The term for biological gender is ‘sex’. You can be male sexed (ie assigned male at birth [AMAB]), but that doesn’t make your gender male necessarily. We have plenty of words for ones gender that aren’t male or female, it just scares and confuses people who don’t want to think about other genders than male/female.
Because, since gender has two parts, he’s right and wrong.
He’s not wrong, you just seem to lack proper knowledge of the topic.
Both parts are made up. We originally used sex and gender synonymously, but in the 70s as it was becoming clear to biologists that human biology did not fit cleanly into two distinct sexes, John Money and Robert Stroller both contributed in seperating sex and gender from one another as two distinct concepts.
This was more to salvage the concept of sex, and in Stoller’s case, it was additionally to endorse the idea that you could change someone’s gender identity with conversion therapy.
It reality, biology does not fit neatly into sexes, psychology does not fit neatly into genders, and this terminology is explicitly used to try and constrain how the conversation of self-expression occurs.
Sex. The term for biological gender is ‘sex’. You can be male sexed (ie assigned male at birth [AMAB]), but that doesn’t make your gender male necessarily. We have plenty of words for ones gender that aren’t male or female, it just scares and confuses people who don’t want to think about other genders than male/female.
He’s not wrong, you just seem to lack proper knowledge of the topic.
Both parts are made up. We originally used sex and gender synonymously, but in the 70s as it was becoming clear to biologists that human biology did not fit cleanly into two distinct sexes, John Money and Robert Stroller both contributed in seperating sex and gender from one another as two distinct concepts.
This was more to salvage the concept of sex, and in Stoller’s case, it was additionally to endorse the idea that you could change someone’s gender identity with conversion therapy.
It reality, biology does not fit neatly into sexes, psychology does not fit neatly into genders, and this terminology is explicitly used to try and constrain how the conversation of self-expression occurs.