I am so sick of the misuse of the word gender. As my husband’s Mormon English teacher used to say “Nouns have gender, people have SEX”
Yeah but sex is biologically binary, and then you can’t make reality a subjective whim of your own.
Which of course, just cannot be allowed.
Not in class, I hope.
To me, gender is the physical maleness or femaleness of a person. Sex is an activity. I suspect that the dislike some people have for the use of the word "gender" to mean a physical attribute is regional. It's similar to the annoyance I feel when some Marylander uses the word "tag" to mean "license plate", which is what we called it in CA, where I grew up.
In any case, a person cannot change gender. Either he is biologically male, or she is biologically female--either way, the gender is an immutable fact, not subject to personal decisions.
Nouns have gender, people have SEX. Except married people just remember when they used to have sex.
Best way to solve the gender neutral bathroom problem and locker-room issue, is for the real men to stand up. Next time you see a facility labeled as such go in and piss on the seat then lower the lid and piss all over it then make sure you have lots of good shacks left to get it all over the walls and floor.