Aren't they, though? The function is the same, and the language of sex has been so debased that saying they aren't is a distinction without practical meaning. Gender is 'out' 'queer' and all about sexual presentation/fetishes-- all 'gay' things! Therefore, gay is inseparable from gender-- because the queer is the archetypal form the genders are derived from.
Or we use the first DSM-- in which case you become correct: Gay is a mental illness, not a gender.
Aren't they, though? The function is the same, and the language of sex has been so debased that saying they aren't is a distinction without practical meaning. Gender is 'out' 'queer' and all about sexual presentation/fetishes-- all 'gay' things! Therefore, gay is inseparable from gender-- because the queer is the archetypal form the genders are derived from.
Or we use the first DSM-- in which case you become correct: Gay is a mental illness, not a gender.
You honestly just confused me.
Just because you rape a definition, it doesn't mean we have to accept the post-rape definition.