Originally Posted by Tom
You say that the word "gender" has no meaning in the English language. However that simply is not true,
What I said was
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There is no such thing as gender. Gender is an English word for something that does not exist in the English language. It refers to words in other languages which are either neuter, masculine, or feminine--not male or female
I think it is abundantly clear that I was saying the grammatical concept of gender does not occur in English, but in other languages.

Now in looking at the etymology of the word, I see that the "male-or-female sex" sense existed, but was not used until the 20th century:
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As sex (n.) took on erotic qualities in 20c., gender came to be the usual English word for "sex of a human being," in which use it was at first regarded as colloquial or humorous. Later often in feminist writing with reference to social attributes as much as biological qualities; this sense first attested 1963.
from www.etymonline.com. Wikipedia says this,
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Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories. However, Money's meaning of the word did not become widespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embraced the concept of a distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender.
And it also says,
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Traditionally, people who do identify as men or women or use masculine or feminine gender pronouns are using a system of gender binary whereas those who exist outside these groups fall under the umbrella terms non-binary or genderqueer.
There is much more in the wikipedia article to the effect that the word was used in the grammatical sense until it "was popularized and developed by the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards."

So as you say,
Originally Posted by Tom
check any English dictionary and you will notice the word "gender" does indeed have meaning.
No one can argue with that. The point that I tried to make is that the meaning of the word has been changed from the grammatical sense to the sexual sense. And the reason for the change is obvious. It was not at all done for greater clarity, but rather for greater obfuscation. It is blatant part of the liberal/feminist/homosexual agenda.

But if you wish to continue using it that way, that is your right. wink

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