I am not a native English speaker and the English term for the classification of "men" and "women" also has a meaning of "copulation". Of course, I mean the word "sex". So, I had been using "gender" to avoid the confusion. But the left are now claiming that "gender" and "sex" are different. They say "gender" is something like the person's feeling and "sex" is the biological thing.
If I understood what they are trying to say correctly, which I probably did not, isn't "gender" something like which of the traditional male/female role that the person prefers? But if that is the case, I am NOT interested in the "gender" of strangers. That is, in some cases, I may need to know if some unknown person is a male or a female, but not whether the person likes traditional male roles or female roles. Why should I? That kind of information is irrelevant to me.
But aren't the left using this "gender"/"sex" distinction like a trap? When we are talking about men/women, we are talking about "sex" but we may use the term "gender" to avoid confusion with "copulation", and the left are saying "ah ha!" and explains the "gender" as the role that one prefers?
If a woman who gave birth to a baby prefers traditional male roles like, I don't know, building houses, doing wrestling or something, and hates traditional female roles like cooking or wearing dresses, good for her. She has every right to do those things she like and not to do the things she does not like, regardless of her sex, but that does not make her a "male" in the sense I think about, which is now called "biological male".
I am not a native English speaker and the English term for the classification of "men" and "women" also has a meaning of "copulation". Of course, I mean the word "sex". So, I had been using "gender" to avoid the confusion. But the left are now claiming that "gender" and "sex" are different. They say "gender" is something like the person's feeling and "sex" is the biological thing.
If I understood what they are trying to say correctly, which I probably did not, isn't "gender" something like which of the traditional male/female role that the person prefers? But if that is the case, I am NOT interested in the "gender" of strangers. That is, in some cases, I may need to know if some unknown person is a male or a female, but not whether the person likes traditional male roles or female roles. Why should I? That kind of information is irrelevant to me.
But aren't the left using this "gender"/"sex" distinction like a trap? When we are talking about men/women, we are talking about "sex" but we may use the term "gender" to avoid confusion with "copulation", and the left are saying "ah ha!" and explains the "gender" as the role that one prefers?
If a woman who gave birth to a baby prefers traditional male roles like, I don't know, building houses, doing wrestling or something, and hates traditional female roles like cooking or wearing dresses, good for her. She has every right to do those things she like and not to do the things she does not like, regardless of her sex, but that does not make her a "male" in the sense I think about, which is now called "biological male".
Human/mammal gender is determined by the gonads and sex linked genes according to my advanced developmental biology book.