Since there's a lot of conversation about the debate over what people are referring to when they say sex or gender, I'll repost my take on that whole argument.
I think ultimately all this confusion stems from a single disconnect between the social progressive side and, to be blunt, everyone else. That disconnect is that the social progressives and especially the liberal academics seem to believe that all this time people have been conflating sex and gender, and referring to sex when they really mean gender identity. In reality, I think most people are and always have referred to gender when they actually mean biological sex. For most people, words like woman or man are basically just shorthand for biological male and biological female. When we refer to the ladies' locker room, we're not referring to a place where people with a feminine gender expression go to change, we're referring to a place where people with the female anatomy go to change. The progressive seems to believe that when an average Joe signs up for the dating app and checks the "Interested in Women" box, they're looking for someone that adheres to societal expectations for women, when in reality they're just checking the box because they want to be matched with people that have the female anatomy.
I don't know that I articulated this very well, but it's a disconnect that I've been noticing for a while now. Even if the left succeeds in completely confusing the language surrounding gender and sex, I think people will just adapt and use different words because ultimately the general public is concerned with biological sex, not gender identity.
This was from a different topic, but I think it applies here as well.
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