Let us use words the way we want, in whatever manner we decide is appropriate. Let US determine the language.

Exactly. The way people actually speak nowadays, gender and sex are synonymous when referring to whether humans are XX or XY.

We use "gender" as a more genteel way to talk about male and female, rather than using the word "sex" with all its juicy behavioral connotations.

Many of us don't like the expression "the sex of the baby". Like words, BABIES DON'T HAVE SEX. They have GENDER, unless pedophile perverts are involved. "A baby's gender is either female or male." Sounds nicer to the average listener.

"But it's still technically accurate to say babies have sex, and their sex is male or female!" Maybe, but you lost the listener at "babies have sex." Yes we have sex to make babies, but when we are discussing the baby rather than intercourse, we use the word gender.

Gender isn't a bad word. It is related to the word gene. Genes are where the XX and XY chromosomes are located, which genuinely determine the gender and genitalia of the babies in each generation of our genus.

Let us use words the way we want, in whatever manner we decide is appropriate. Let US determine the language.

Exactly. The way people actually speak nowadays, gender and sex are synonymous when referring to whether humans are XX or XY.

We use "gender" as a more genteel way to talk about male and female, rather than using the word "sex" with all its juicy behavioral connotations.

Many of us don't like the expression "the sex of the baby". Like words, BABIES DON'T HAVE SEX. They have GENDER, unless pedophile perverts are involved. "A baby's gender is either female or male." Sounds nicer to the average listener.

"But it's still technically accurate to say babies have sex, and their sex is male or female!" Maybe, but you lost the listener at "babies have sex." Yes we have sex to make babies, but when we are discussing the baby rather than intercourse, we use the word gender.

Gender isn't a bad word. It is related to the word gene. Genes are where the XX and XY chromosomes are located, which determine the gender and genitalia of the babies in each generation of our genus.

Let us use words the way we want, in whatever manner we decide is appropriate. Let US determine the language.

Exactly. The way people actually speak nowadays, gender and sex are synonymous when referring to whether humans are XX or XY.

We use "gender" as a more genteel way to talk about male and female, rather than using the word "sex" with all its juicy behavioral connotations.

Many of us don't like the expression "the sex of the baby". Like words, BABIES DON'T HAVE SEX. They have GENDER, unless pedophile perverts are involved. "A baby's gender is either female or male." Sounds nicer to the average listener.

"But it's still technically accurate to say babies have sex, and their sex is male or female!" Maybe, but you lost the listener at "babies have sex." Talking about sex and babies at the same time...that's why there's the word gender.

Gender isn't a bad word. It is related to the word gene. Genes are where the XX and XY chromosomes are located, which determine the genitalia and hence the gender of the babies in each generation of the genus.