No. It is a Crit Gender Studies manipulation. Sex has evidence. Gender doesn’t.
Why do you think I’m being disingenuous? What is it that I’m saying thats incoherent to you? There is no secret meaning.
Given the two words have been used synonymously for decades, that manipulation must have backfired.
Let’s say that traits include whether I am tall or short. Ok. Linguistically, we can say “I am tall” describes a trait I have. We can say, " I am white." Again, describing a trait I have. But we are using these words as adjectives.
We can say, “I am a male” and “I am male,” describing my biological sex.
If we want to describe me exhibiting some behavioural trait of mine by cultural gender regarded as feminine, we cannot say, "I am female " or “I am a female”. Male and female already applies to our biology. We need to use masculine and feminine. At any time a man can be behaving as a masculine male, or a feminine male. And a woman as a feminine female, or a masculine female.
But a biological female cannot also be a feminine male; nor can a biological male also be a masculine female. A male-female hybrid is an hermaphrodite.
Physically altering a male body to include female parts creates an hermaphrodite, not a female. And physically altering a female body to include male parts creates an hermaphrodite, not a male.
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This is the only thing in this debate from either side that makes sense to me because the “‘gender’ is a word meant to normalize the idea of no sex-differences” narrative seems like it’s addressing air.
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I have no preferred definition. I use words and their definitions as relevant to the conversation or what I’m trying to communicate.
What’s sloppy about it? What of my actual beliefs regarding gender are you confused by?
It’s both. It’s a cultural demographic based on the behaviors, characteristics and traits typically associated with a particular biological sex.
That definition does not account for many of the genders that include traits particular to neither biological sex.
I think this is just grammar. It sounds weird to say “I am a tall”. We either say “I am tall” or use it as a modifier, like “I am a tall person”. In British English when referring to take out food they might say something like “Let’s have a Chinese” when wanting to order Chinese food, but to our American ear’s this sounds really weird because thats not how we phrase it.
But gender is one of those words where its both a descriptor, but also an identity. We do the same thing with American. Its both normal to say “I am an American” and “I am American”.
Identity and behavior can contradict each other. A pacifist could lose their temper and hit someone.
A biological male cannot be a biological female and vice versa, but a biological male could have a female gender identity and a biological female could have a male gender identity. They could also have a gender identity that falls somewhere in between male and female or one that is fluid. “Feminine” and “masculine” are really used as gender identities… they tend to be used in regards to the gender expression. So you could be a cisgender woman who acts masculine but still identifies as a woman and therefore is not transgender.
You can’t be a hermaphrodite unless you have both testicles and ovaries. There is no surgery that make you a hermaphrodite.
Seven hours and still no response. I would have thought the progs in here would have had a pat answer ready to go for that question. 
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Or said more succinctly: They claim the difference between sex and gender is the difference between physiology and sociology, except when it’s not. 
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If you knew grammar as well as you apparently think you do, you would recognize the difference between nouns and adjectives.
I don’t think I’m an expert on grammar. Any other questions?
Based on what objective testable criteria?
Yes. Why did you bring grammar into the discussion if you have such limited knowledge of it that you can’t distinguish a noun from an adjective?
I’m not sure how you would test it… maybe they have. My understanding is that this conclusion is based on decades of research and interviews with transgender people. I’d suggest you go here and start checking out the references and external links at the bottom of the page:
I know the difference between a noun and an adjective. Male and female can be used as both.
Times. They are a changin’
No it’s not.
Is “gender” an arbitrary social construct?
Interesting…
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