Obama: ‘Sex’ And ‘Gender’ Are Different Things

The Daily Caller ^ | May 11, 2015 | by Scott Greer

[Argus]

Sex is determined by biology. Gender is determined by whim.

[jonrick46]

These are the same minds of mush who believe having sex with a blow-up doll was like sex with a real woman.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

You know, now that I think of it, “rectum” and “As**ole” are different terms, too.

[Secret Agent Man]

Which is why he isnt fit to run a damn race.

[WriteOn]

Only since 1955

[BatGuano]

I first learned the word “gender” and its proper use in FRENCH 1, my Freshman year in High School. Sex and Gender are not interchangeable no matter what the Commiecrats say!

“La plume de ma tante et sur le table de mon oncle.”

[kvanbrunt2]

i thot so too but the 1828 webster’s does use gender for sex.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 + 1828)
ARTFL > Webster’s Dictionary > Searching for gender:
Displaying 1 result(s) from the 1828 edition:

GEN’’DER, n. [L. genus, from geno, gigno; Gr.to beget, or to be born; Eng. kind. Gr. a woman, a wife; Sans. gena, a wife, and genaga, a father. We have begin from the same root. See Begin and Can.]

1. Properly, kind; sort.

2. A sex, male or female. Hence,

3. In grammar, a difference in words to express distinction of sex; usually a difference of termination in nouns, adjectives and participles, to express the distinction of male and female. But although this was the original design of different terminations, yet in the progress of language, other words having no relation to one sex or the other, came to have genders assigned them by custom. Words expressing males are said to be of the masculine gender; those expressing females, of the feminine gender; and in some languages, words expressing things having no sex, are of the neuter or neither gender.

GEN’’DER, v.t. To beget; but engender is more generally used.

GEN’’DER, v.i. To copulate; to breed. Levit. 19.

http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=gender&use1828=on

[kjam22]

One of them is a verb and the other is an adjective?

[Not A Snowbird]

English does not use genders.

Don't tell me, tell the dictionary.

[SaraJohnson]

I only use the word “sex” when referring to men and women. Gender is one of those social engineer made up words and concepts. Also, I refuse to refer to husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends, as “partners.” Partners are business or work related associates.