Understanding the Distinction: Sex vs Gender

Gender and sex are typically used by most people interchangeably, they are generally thought to be the same. If you are a male that is your sex as well as your gender, even though that is what most people believe it is not the case. It is understandable though for people to believe these two things are the same, if you were to look up the definitions in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary this is what you would find for gender: “the state of being male or female” and this is what you would find for sex: “the state of being male or female” and “physical activity in which people touch each other 's bodies, kiss each other, etc. : physical activity that is related to and often includes sexual intercourse”. It is now very clear why people would believe

The social aspect as Robyn defined is gender and in a world where we are not just male and female we should not have gender. Gender is defined by the social ideas we have of sexes but those sexes are male and female so then what do we do when we have someone who is not male or female and we try to socialize them into one of these categories it becomes problematic. It is already problematic when people who are biologically male or female are socialized into these categories of what a male or female should be. So many issues in society stem from the prejudices that are ascribed to social constructs. Gender, race, religion, these are all social constructs that do not physically exist, they are built out of ideas that really just do not exist in our world anymore and we have to stop pretending that they do. All of the issues that people who are biologically different from a male or female stem from the social stigmas we assign these sexes but we live in a world where these ideas do not exist but the issues still