To get irritated by surveys that ask for my 'gender' but not for my sex?

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If it's on paper I cross out 'gender' and write in sex, if it's a phone survey I comment that my sex is female.

I am my body, my body is me, and my body is female. I do not believe in gendered souls being popped into the 'wrong' body by some foolish god.

I know lots of married women that use Ms. Very few married friends use mrs.

When people deny gender but are happy to state their sex I assume that, like me, they think the concept of gender is sexist bollocks.

The survey that irritated me most was the one that asked if I identified as:

Cis Woman
Cis Man
Trans Woman
Trans Man
Non-binary
Other.

I identify as none of those listed, apart from 'other', and this didn't have the option to add any text. There was a comments box at the end of the survey where I suggested they might want to review their wording as their results would be skewed if too many people objected to the cis label.

I am a woman. Born female....not 'cis' anything.

It annoys me because if I have to recognise how others identify in order to avoid causing offence, so why should I not be recognised for how I identify?

Isn't it funny - you are the one that brought up genitals not the OP or any one else not conforming to gender ideology. It does betray a misunderstanding of sex. Sex is in every cell, its in your skeleton, your musculature etc. Genitals are just one outward manifestation.

They are trying to push gender and make it more relevant than sex. Which it isn’t,

Well said

Plenty of people do, for very valid reasons as stated on this site regularly.

No.
And irrelevant to the point I was making.

Ms, just like Mr, gives no information about marital status.

I’ve got way too many other things to worry about to get irritated by things like this

If women are using Ms to indicate that they are unmarried, they are perverting its original intention. I've used Ms since I was a teenager, continued using it, without changing my name, when I got married, and I'm still using it now I'm divorced.

I do know of women who were Ms X until they got married and became Mrs Y, but they are clearly missing the point entirely.

Glad you could spare the time to tell me how unimportant this issue is to you.

Jog on.

I was fine with it when gender was a polite way of saying sex. Now as I understand it, gender and sex are completely different things, and I've yet to find someone who can explain to me what 'gender' is and how exactly you know which gender you are. I know I'm of the female sex, but until I know the criteria by which you decide what gender you are, then I can't be sure I'm answering correctly.

Yanbu. I won't have anything to do with anyone who asks for my gender.

Exactly this. There is no way of defining gender without either basing it on sex (which is meaningful) or on regressive stereotypes.

You are most definitely NOT being unreasonable. I have massive issues with the way this "g" word is regularly conflated with "sex". It is deliberate obfuscation imo to push the trans narrative. . Often when gender is used in a form there are two alternatives: male and female, fine. This means that gender is the same as sex.

"Gender" identity - what does that mean? Someone who identifies as male or female? That is a belief like a religion and has no place in public or legal documents.

Sex MUST be written in all documents and gender must be removed.

Such people are either male or female. If there is any confusion at birth a blood test check is done. If the baby's DNA profile contains a "Y" it is male. If it only contains X, it is female.

There's a dedicated board for being irritated by the use of 'gender' instead of sex? Or do you mean the board for Feminism and all that crap?

The thing is that it does affect the issues you care about because women are at the sharp end of child poverty, not men who want to be women, but females. For example, when women suffer from violence at the hands of men, they deserve single sex spaces to recover, but if you're not going to differentiate between females and males and are just asking about gender, then males can identify themselves into those single sex spaces.

I think you've msunderstood.