President Dribble-Cup Spanky, in his daily effort to harm voters and to stir up the most base among his base, is threatening to make it government policy that the words "sex" and "gender" mean the same thing (and it isn't "gender"). His political method is to make it federal policy that transgender people don't really exist and to pretend that the sexual and gender categories that actually exist are really fictions.
My guess is that most Americans don't have a firm grip of the two key words and already tend to blur them together. I see the words misused daily.
Sex is a name for the differences between the male or female of a species, distinguishing them by the reproductive organs and the behavior dependent on these famous organs. Note the word "behavior." The definition is beginning to blur.
When a word is vague or blurry, it can be a mistake to attempt to sharpen its definition. Vague words have their uses.
Gender is a person's internal sense of all this. Gender identities are, in reality, many: but in Spanky's truncated world view, that of a five-year-old dimwit, there are only two genders, female and male or spanker and spankee.
How all this will end no one knows. Languages apparently have minds of their own and develop out of my control. I resent that. So does the French Academy, which pretends to be in control of French.
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