Fir the record:
‘Gender’ is a grammar/language-related term - there are three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter.
‘Sex’ is a biology-related term - with the exception of genuine genetic mutation, there are two sexes: male and female.
The “transgender” freaks have bastardized our language so much it is impossible to even communicate with them.
Or, perhaps, FOR the record...
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In linguistics, “gender” is even more complicated than that. A “gender” is a category of nouns and adjectives that share a distinctive morphology. The masculine/feminine/neuter breakdown that we find in Romance languages correlates to some extent - at least when relating to living beings - with observable sex: “la mujer” is feminine and “el hombre” is masculine.
However, some languages have far more than three “genders,” most of which have nothing to do with biological sex traits. “Cylindrically-shaped things,” “flat things,” “some inanimate things that are neither cylindrical nor flat,” and so on.