My wife works for the prison service (not frontline) and today received training on 'gender informed trauma'. As a lesbian couple we are well versed in GC matters, she compiled a list of questions before she started. The trainer started with a slide that specified that in this group we are inclusive and there are one million genders (paraphrasing), but we will strictly talking about male and female 'genders' as a binary 'for simplicity'.
There was one bloke who either himself or some influ nice in his life is a raging GC type because he asked a few pertinent/loaded questions, quickly shut down by the wizened (and I suspect also very GC) course provider who said something along the lines of 'we are an inclusive service but this is basically not relevant here, we're talking about women'. The use of 'gender' was convoluted throughout, with use of 'gender' when it clearly meant sex. The course info was very sex based. Just made me half cross/ half amused that OF COURSE that sex made a difference particularly in context of offender behaviour, but the language was dissociated with the actual course content and left the participants to assimilate actual meaning from the gender-mess language of the course materials. NONE of the course was related to gender in any way. Just thought I'd share as I found it very interesting how the sex Vs gender stuff is being dealt with within the UK justice dept. The language was given a nod, but there was no mistake that the content was very sex based.