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 20th century.

Somewhere in the mid 20th century, as early as the 1940s, the word gender began to take on a different meaning. This process continued in the 50s and 60s with some in the psychological community on through the 70s with the feminist movement. Gender became associated with masculine and...