I just saw someone citing this definition of “gender” in an argument with a gay man that
I just saw someone citing this definition of “gender” in an argument with a gay man that being gay isn’t about what biological sex you’re attracted to but about what gender you are attracted to. They directly related ‘gender’ to 'sex’ even though the above definition makes note that 'gender’ often refers to cultural and social differences rather than biological ones. It /can/ be used as a synonym for sex but after the “sex=/=gender” mantra that trans activists used to employ, I thought we had moved away from equating the two. I still don’t understand how equating gender back to sex is at all progressive. Especially if you are trying to tell gay men and lesbians that there’s no way that we can actually be homosexual. -- source link
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