Stop Using the Word Gender

Historically the words ‘gender’ and ‘sex’ had the same meaning and were interchangeable. The term gender developed in the 1400s and was synonymous with sex (the noun not the verb). This changed in the 20^th century.

Somewhere in the mid 20^th century, as early as the 1940s, the word gender began to take on a different meaning. This process continued in the…