[exDemMom]

Grammar and word usage are fluid, and do, in fact, differ throughout the English speaking world. I believe that preference or dislike for the word "gender" as a descriptive of being biologically male or biologically female is regional. It is genuinely curious to me that anyone can object to the word "gender" being used for male and female, especially since I have never physically met any person who objects to that use of the word. Whereas, to me, it is borderline offensive to use the word "sex" in that context. Sex is something you keep to yourself and do not discuss in public.

I also find it offensive that liberals are trying to cast gender as something that is just a mental state, when it most clearly is not, any more than being human, tall, short, fat, thin, are mental states. I only wish biology could be changed simply by deciding it is different--I'd be twenty pounds thinner, taller, and non-arthritic in a heartbeat.

[XEHRpa]

Terms of antiquity like “the fairer sex” are employed, not “the fairer gender”. Such distinctions support reaganaut’s original contention.

Just google any government form (pre-2010), for example a passport. It doesn’t have an entry for “gender” as M or F, but rather has an entry for “sex”.

Only with modern language bastardization have we adopted the term “gender” to mean “what sex you pretend to be [today]”; that is, a subjective rather than objective term. More post-modern deconstructionism. God save us.