>As I understand the history of the term, _gender_ was commonly only
>used to refer to the grammatical category until the 19th-20th century,
>when it came to be used as a more "polite" alternative to _sex_. The
>division of _sex_ and _gender_ into biological and
>social/psychological aspects respectively is indeed somewhat more
It dates back about 40 years.
>recent. The words are in this sense essentially technical terms as
>used by anthropologists and social theorists. Obviously this
>distinction is rarely observed in ordinary discourse; however, it
>seems reasonable to employ it in a discussion where you are, in fact,
>distinguishing between these senses.
And there are bodies of people besides anthropologists (e.g. the
transgendered) who adhere to this difference in meaning between "sex" and
"gender".
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