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Language is a living thing. The meanings of words change over time, and that's normally a helpful thing, which lets us express culturally relevant concepts. In
by kemayo 9y ago
Language is a living thing. The meanings of words change over time, and that's normally a helpful thing, which lets us express culturally relevant concepts.
In this case, it's pretty useful to have words which distinguish between biology and culture.
- nailer 9y agoTotally. It's just confusing when people were already using 'gender' to distinguish XX/XY from copulation (since 'sex' means both).
- dragonwriter 9y agoIf you use “ascribed gender” and “gender identity” to describe the (external and internal, respectively) social traits, you avoid the confusion between the two and with the biological trait that comes with using bare “gender” for that purpose.