SEX is the correct word

[Lovelyricepudding]

I saw a comment earlier about use of the words sex and gender and how gender used to be a reasonable synonym and sex just results in teenage dissolving in mirth. I couldn't find the comment again. But the idea was we should find a word to replace sex.

Sex is the correct word because it links to sexual intercourse which is part of sexual reproduction. We need this word precisely because of the connertations behind the sniggering. Sex (male/female) is primarily about reproduction - it is our reproductive roles that govern our bodies and how we are treated. Any other words obscures this. It is also a word with consistent meanings right across phyla.

The trouble is, sex means 2 different things: the reproduction meaning and the male/female meaning

But these aren't different things. Sex is about reproduction, male/female is about reproduction. It cannot be separated from reproduction. The reason women are discriminated against to linked to those reproctive roles. Gender is the mechanism by which we a discriminated against due to our reproductive roles (sex).

@ErrolTheDragon Thanks for the Poetry link. It's the cutlery for fish idea that winds me up IRL.

You may like this FOI I came across where a council chose to use gender based violence instead of sex based violence. www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/decision_to_use_the_campaign_tit

A woman on there has also do e FOIs on gender based violence for every university.

I agree you don't have a Sex Scan or a Sex reveal.

People can choose to identify as a gender or not. It's not compulsory.

Hmm, in Russian the word for sex, as in male/female is the same as the word for 'floor'. Hasn't stopped Russian transwomen from claiming they actually are women.