That was interesting. However, by using the word “gender,” instead of “sex,” they’re already giving ground to their enemies. Humans are born male or female, one of two “sexes.” Parts of speech have “gender,” with up to seven possibilities in some languages, iirc.
By using “gender” to describe men and women, a writer tacitly agrees that this distinction is as arbitrary, and as meaningless, as the assignment of “masculine” gender to a raincoat and “feminine” to a table.
Interesting take but I think a bit taxing on the details. Most understand that gender as it refers to sexual relationships male or female. I personally like the idea of getting back to a clear definition of gender. I do believe you are confusing two distinctly different things. Gender as it applies to language is not the same thing as gender in reference to human sexuality. Same word different things. :-)