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I do like gender and sex being separate categories, because it's useful to differentiate between sex (which is biological) and gender (which is a socially constructed role grafted atop biology). Sex differences are more or less constant, whereas gender roles change across time and space. That's why Spartan women were trained with spears and Victorian women were not.

One huge problem with trans ideology is that it essentializes gender as innate. What's a "woman"? Under the old regime, it was someone born with XX and a vagina who, by virtue of gender roles, is socialized to be submissive. Under gender essentialism, a "woman" is someone who feels or is submissive (or giggly, or clumsy, or whatever other traits the "egg"/AGP crew fetishizes).