Terminology
It's long overdue but time to talk about what I mean when I use different terms. Sex Sex is about your biological status and can be male, female or intersex. It depends on your primary sexual characteristics. If you have a penis, you are male and if you have a vagina, you are female. Any ambiguous physical status, i.e. a person who cannot be clearly identified as male or female, is called "intersex". Gender Gender is about identity. When you are born, you are normally assigned a gender depending on your sex. This is known as your gender assigned at birth. This can lead to all sorts of problems. As soon as someone checks between your legs when you're a baby and finds whatever sexual organs you have, you become pigeon-holed and your externally ordained genderization starts. This reaches right into adulthood where a woman with short hair who plays football is quickly judged to be too butch or assumed to be a lesbian or a man wearing high heels is laughed at and c...