'Gender' does not have consistent usage in the English language, aside from the grammar sense of masculine/feminine words. Aside from that, it's sometimes used

'Gender' does not have consistent usage in the English language, aside from the grammar sense of masculine/feminine words. Aside from that, it's sometimes used to describe a performed social role, or more broadly anything that communicates "masculine" or "feminine". Sometimes it's used to describe an objective, distinct axis of male/female from the "parts and chromosomes". Sometimes it's used as a synonym for "sex", either out of puritanism or to stop people from answering "yes, please". Some assert that applying "gender" to people or any non-grammar usage is an error. Just to make things more complicated, large groups of people have attached political significance to one or another of these definitions and assert that the others are Wrong and/or Ignorant. It's a mess of recent vintage that apparently only English speakers have to suffer from.