SEX....Not gender!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Just received an invite to this, cant go but would be tempted to see whether they are conflating sex and gender on purpose..

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Maybe not deliberately but the term gender equality is widely used everywhere I would say but actually relates to equality of the sexes. Until this rubbish started, gender was often used as a synonym for sex and I don’t think anyone apart from a few select radfems would have made a distinction between the two.

Agree, but I would have thought a Professor of Medical Education might be aware of the different usage in today's climate. Or maybe Mumsnet has made me too sensitive!

I think it’s Mumsnet! Seriously, I work with a load of professors and gender is used synonymously with sex all of the time. Other people just don’t really grasp the distinction.

:-) I was thinking about this the other day, wouldn't it be easier if sex and gender were used (and kept) as before and there was a new word to describe what gender is now being used for such as 'Essence' you could have a pink, blue or yellow essence or any colour (as 'essence is a spectrum').
Then you could be a pink man, a blue woman, a periwinkle man etc and all this rubbish could go away - no need to reclassify man, woman, male or female, the world is changing add new words, don't redefine old ones.

I'm in medical research, almost everyone uses sex and gender interchangeably. MN is a bit of a bubble, in most areas of life people are oblivious to this whole thing.

Occasionally the topic comes up but it's the same kind of chat you might have about Scientologists, or people who put on make up so their face looks unzipped, or have 20kids, or any other group that you don't quite get how they got that way but are kind of fascinating for a discussion over lunch.

Academics can separate ideas from personal attacks and have different opinions without taking anything personally. This event sounds like a woman, who works in making things better for women, let's not allow semantics to overshadow people doing great things.