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[–]BiHorror 20 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Eh, the 1st bit (with sex and gender were synonymous) was right... Then it just went down hill after that. Mate would be a bisexual in denial or some weird fetishist... Which I'm honestly curious tho. Is it possible for there to be a homosexual version of GAMPs?

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sex and gender only merged in colloquial language recently. Gender only merged from 2nd wave feminism which was also pretty recent.

[–]BiHorror 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Super late reply: Sex and Gender were always used as synonyms to each other in the past. The only time it was "different" was gender was strictly used as grammar related. "Gender" to mean something other than sex (like sex roles/stereotypes which was used by 2nd wave feminism) was coined by John Money.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Look up "Google books ngram viewer" then enter "sex,gender"

"Gender" is almost never used even as a word then after the 1970s it started being used as a niche academic term to refer to sex based social castes and you can see the uptick. In the 80s people talked about "gender bending" which was still the correct use of the term. I know of biologists who started using the term "gender" as a polite way to say "sex" in the 90s and 00s. They knew it was incorrect but their audiences were dumb and were already conflating the 2 words around this time so they said it to make audiences happy. Honestly in the 00s TRAs were actually trying to educate people in the difference because they were still trying to be more reasonable but it was a losing battle then the Tumblr kids got to college and everything went crazy and they started attacking the older trans people.