Gender is a facet of grammar only and can apply to inanimate objects and does in most European languages. The sexes are what people are mixed up about and there are only two of those.
AMEN! It is so ironic that conservatives are considered to be ignorant and uneducated because they realize that the facts do not support the existence of global warming and that evolution is just a theory that does not prevent a belief that the hand of God created the world.
On the other hand, biologists have known since the early 20th century that sex is genetically determined by two chromosomes, X and Y (XX=female and XY=male). This is determined AT CONCEPTION, not what the child may "feel" at around 4 or 5. Undergoing "transition" from one sex to another has NO effect on the chromosomes. Even if a person surgically changes their body parts, genetically they are still the sex that they always were. Liberals who deny this are the actual ignorant ones!