It really wasn't. And I filled out plenty of forms, from the doctors office to the DMV to the passport office and many other places I cannot remember seeing a single form that said gender instead of sex for the first half of my life. Not saying it was never used but it was not common or the norm.
I can't believe I have to do this on this forum, but here you go. Here are two links to dictionaries to prove that "gender" has always existed as a synonym for sex and the left hijacked the word and made a fake definition for it.
I never said that it wasn't a synonym. I said it wasn't common usage in most everyday situations. And that it's contextual usage has been changed quite purposefully recently. We basically agree so I don't really understand why you're jumping on my memories of how the words were commonly used and how and when I saw that change.
As I replied to you elsewhere, what dictionaries say has no bearing on how the terms were used in real life. OP is completely correct, forms all said "sex" not "gender" until relatively recently. You are simply wrong about this.
It really wasn't. And I filled out plenty of forms, from the doctors office to the DMV to the passport office and many other places I cannot remember seeing a single form that said gender instead of sex for the first half of my life. Not saying it was never used but it was not common or the norm.
I can't believe I have to do this on this forum, but here you go. Here are two links to dictionaries to prove that "gender" has always existed as a synonym for sex and the left hijacked the word and made a fake definition for it.
Modern dictionary of the English language, MacMillan (1911): https://archive.org/details/moderndictionary00londuoft/page/222/mode/2up?view=theater
Webster's complete dictionary of the English language revised and improved by Chauncey Goodrich & Noah Porter (1886): https://archive.org/details/websterscomplete00webs/page/563/mode/1up?view=theater
I never said that it wasn't a synonym. I said it wasn't common usage in most everyday situations. And that it's contextual usage has been changed quite purposefully recently. We basically agree so I don't really understand why you're jumping on my memories of how the words were commonly used and how and when I saw that change.
Sorry I thought I was replying to someone else (Block_Helen), got you mixed up with them.
No worries. It happens.
As I replied to you elsewhere, what dictionaries say has no bearing on how the terms were used in real life. OP is completely correct, forms all said "sex" not "gender" until relatively recently. You are simply wrong about this.