Apparently I shouldn't use the term SEX

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Says DD (30).

It is politically correct to say gender. I told her sex is the biological term for the physical body (dna etc) and gender was a social construct

Nope... apparently we should just say gender

If it makes anyone feel better I am going to try and only use sex from now on in any formal writing form now on.
I am also only going to ask 'are you going to find the sex out?' to pregnant friends.
Just to redress the balance on the side of us young ones (I'm 29)

CancellyMcChequeface
I filled out a medical form recently.........'this question is for people with testicles.'......

Plural of testicle is testes.

No wonder the country is going to the dogs (there's a ball-licking reference there somewhere)

How big does a breast need to be to count for that survey, and would yer average moob count?

My (XY male) uncle had breast cancer, so the term doesn't seem to be exclusively female.

Oh for fucks sake.

I"m 31 and know it is SEX and that gender is a social construct. Babies have a sex, they do not have a gender.

I had to complete a survey at work today. It asked me for my "gender identity" and then for my "gender assigned at birth". There wasn't an option to reply "I'M FEMALE WHICH IS MY SEX YOU FUCKING IDIOTS" nor was there a free text box where I could have explained why I objected to the question so ticked "prefer not to say"

Testes is the plural of testis. Not testicle, which is an alternative name for testis.

Your daughter sounds a bit prudish.

She isn’t prudish - she says the term sex isn’t PC and I should use the word gender.....

She isn’t prudish but she is brainwashed in my opinion

Its scientifically correct. Reality is reality.

My 13yo, who is not prudish, gave me a little lecture last weekend about gender vs sex (psychology vs biology she said...). I lectured her back on gender as a social construct, and also (just to confuse things) showed her several scientific papers that use gender to mean biological sex.

You are correct. Sex refers to presence or Y chromosome while gender is a social construct.

I know someone who worked as a chicken sexer. (not sure if I can add anything intelligent to the conversation)

Damson did she have a record for how many she could do in a minute?

My betting is that your daughter's sexuality has been hijacked, such a shame in someone so young.

She couldn't possibly enjoy sex if she confuses sex and gender.

I am well aware what sex means. Gender is much more problematic to define. There are a number of commonly used definitions I think.

Indeed. One of the meanings of 'gender' is as a euphemism for 'sex'. Hence the trick being played on us all of conflating the two and then substituting a fundamentally different one.

@dont - I had the same thing today! I ticked 'other' and wrote 'gender is a social construct' as my comment.

That's great! I've met this great bloke recently and, upon hearing this, I'm leaning towards testing his ideological suitability by asking him if he thinks I'm a slut if I agree to gender after the second date ...

I all seriousness, though, as someone with a little background in the social sciences, I find this to be utterly ridiculous!

Me too Bossy! I used to teach the difference between the two terms to my sociology students in feminist theory class. The totally got it and never conflagated the two. Mind you that was 15 years ago....

indominus I really wish there'd been a free text option or an option to tick "other" then put "female". It just added to my rage at the posters displayed at work currently highlighting transgender issues including asking "Do you know what CIS mean? No? Come to our highly informative training and let us enlighten you!!".

Oh fuck off.

nor was there a free text box where I could have explained why I objected to the question so ticked "prefer not to say"

I had the same thing today! I ticked 'other' and wrote 'gender is a social construct' as my comment.

Whenever I'm tempted to do that the thing holding me back is that I'll be added to the numbers for trans people.

What baffles me is that the word "sex" as in male or female was cheerfully and accurately used by 19th century novelists without any need for euphemism.

Do you know what CIS means?

It's the world that TAs use when they are trying to claim the word "woman" for themselves. Or, as you say, fuck off.

word , not word.....though I suspose it is now such a growing fashion, world would be a better fit...

word not world - oh for goodness fat fingers