Sex is the correct word. Gender means something entirely different, a matter of grammar. Don’t let the enemy define the terms.
But in their world, gender can be chosen. They were using “sex” as if it can be changed on a whim. They just need to rewrite their docs. Their whole narrative tended to assume that everything was hard-wired. It was really confusing from a university standpoint. It was as if they didn’t know their own narrative.
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‘Sex is the correct word. Gender means something entirely different...’
no, not really; in today’s parlance, they are identical...
‘Don’t let the enemy define the terms.’
saying ‘gender’ instead of ‘sex’ constitutes a threatening enemy action...?
Exactly. This is why I use the term "gender" to refer to the biological status conferred by having or lacking a Y chromosome, and "sex" to refer to a physical act.
The use of "gender" as a grammatical construct in languages that use gender is a direct consequence of the existence of biological gender. If there were no conceptual relation between biological gender and the grammatical construct, the terms would be essentially neutral, like using "animate" or "inanimate" or any other words used to differentiate classes of objects. Furthermore, the claim that "gender" only refers to grammar is ludicrous. Considering that speakers of English typically are unaware of grammatical constructs of other languages, this claim begs the question of why we would even know about this grammatical construction since we do not use it.