Both parts are made up. We originally used sex and gender synonymously, but in the 70s as it was becoming clear to biologists that human biology did not fit cleanly into two distinct sexes, John Money and Robert Stroller both contributed in seperating sex and gender from one another as two distinct concepts.
This was more to salvage the concept of sex, and in Stoller’s case, it was additionally to endorse the idea that you could change someone’s gender identity with conversion therapy.
It reality, biology does not fit neatly into sexes, psychology does not fit neatly into genders, and this terminology is explicitly used to try and constrain how the conversation of self-expression occurs.
Both parts are made up. We originally used sex and gender synonymously, but in the 70s as it was becoming clear to biologists that human biology did not fit cleanly into two distinct sexes, John Money and Robert Stroller both contributed in seperating sex and gender from one another as two distinct concepts.
This was more to salvage the concept of sex, and in Stoller’s case, it was additionally to endorse the idea that you could change someone’s gender identity with conversion therapy.
It reality, biology does not fit neatly into sexes, psychology does not fit neatly into genders, and this terminology is explicitly used to try and constrain how the conversation of self-expression occurs.