If you polled Americans, I think most of them believe that "gender" is a more official synonym of "sex." The concept of gender as a social construct is too abstract for most people outside of brainwashed zoomers.
Gender and sex are supposedly different with gender being a social construct. However, if someone chooses a gender identity that doesn't align with their phenotype, you're expected to treat and refer to them as though they're the sex that matches their gender identity, and failing to do so is illegal where I'm from. So in leftist land, gender and sex are simultaneously different and the same. It's a deliberate obfuscation that keeps people uncertain and always walking on eggshells.
The intentional confusion is suuuuper obvious once you recall the decades of education around "gender roles." They already had a term for "socially constructed gender" but they jettisoned it because it prevented them from playing these power games via linguistic obfuscation.
If you polled Americans, I think most of them believe that "gender" is a more official synonym of "sex." The concept of gender as a social construct is too abstract for most people outside of brainwashed zoomers.
This is absolutely the case, and leftists are not innocent in this confusion. They actively foster it so that they can agitate from the murky margins.
For sure.
Gender and sex are supposedly different with gender being a social construct. However, if someone chooses a gender identity that doesn't align with their phenotype, you're expected to treat and refer to them as though they're the sex that matches their gender identity, and failing to do so is illegal where I'm from. So in leftist land, gender and sex are simultaneously different and the same. It's a deliberate obfuscation that keeps people uncertain and always walking on eggshells.
The intentional confusion is suuuuper obvious once you recall the decades of education around "gender roles." They already had a term for "socially constructed gender" but they jettisoned it because it prevented them from playing these power games via linguistic obfuscation.
That's a leftist frame. confusing the definition of words. Having an opinion on gender regardless is a lose lose.