What Do I Call Gender?

Language is always changing, evolving and the forces that shape which words we use, when, and why, are overlapping and complicated. Some of our language comes from growing up within a group, surrounded by people who in some way are like us, are "our people", and learning from them what to say if you want this, what to call that, and what words to use to describe those people over there. And any time we join a new group we acquire new language.

The words we use matter. I don't think there are...