Hello,

As can be evidenced by looking at people's profiles, it's written "Gender = male". Gender does not exist, it is a modern invention that pretends that people can identify as male or female. Male or female is assigned at birth.

So, my profile should say "Sex : Male" nor "Gender : Male". 

Hello,

As can be evidenced by looking at people's profiles, it's written "Gender = male". Gender does not exist, it is a modern invention that pretends that people can identify as male or female. Male or female is assigned at birth.

So, my profile should say "Sex : Male" nor "Gender : Male".

In the current year, Gender is used instead of Sex in many cases, not just in "woke" circles.
I think it's because the alternative is to say "sex" and that's kind of a dirty word to many. Maybe it's some latent Puritanism here in America, people not liking to talk about "sex" or even say the word in front of children.

You can criticize it, but realize that when used by Conservatives (the non-woke), it's used as a more kid-friendly synonym for "sex".

And forget the Protestants -- I don't want the word "sex" found all over the average CathInfo page around 10 times (one for each post).

Sorry that a living language like English isn't set in stone, or cut and dried. Living languages are FULL of grey areas, ambiguity, inconsistency, and change. I don't always agree with it, or like it. But I have to deal with it.

English is a living language. While the OP is technically correct up through the 1980’s, until the 1990’s, various radicals and then perverts highjacked the word gender, around with many other words, like gαy. 
Say the word “sex,” in a first grade classroom and I guarantee the children will say, “Eeeeeeewwwww!  He said the s-word,” same thing for “gαy.” 

If, in 1950, your mother greeted you upon coming home from school in a great mood, “Lazarus, my, my! Aren’t you looking gαy,” you might show her your spelling test with 100% on top. If your mother were to say that now, in 2026, I’m guessing you’d be wondering!  

Back in the late 1960’s-and early 1970’s, when “sex” was becoming a verb, I was looking through a small pile of job applications for college library assistant, I came upon one from a freshman male (assuming by the name). Beside the word SEX ________, he’d written, “Yes!”Ha. Ha. No, he did not get the job. 

There are examples galore of changes in language. Here’s a new one to me pointed out by my 19 year old nephew. I emailed a link to a DMV form and requested he make five Xeroxes for me. He knew I meant five printed copies, but that’s only because his grandfather, RIP, used Xerox as his preferred word for paper copies. The word came into being in the 1960’s with the invention and popular use of the Xerox Corporation’s affordable copy machine. The word declined as other companies took over the technology in the mid-1990’s. Do they even still make Xerox machines?  My father had one in his office in the late 1960’s and it was a real novelty. 

A friend of mine has a very old prayer book from the mid-1800’s. There are several prayers where God is referred to as “awful” and “terrible.”  In 18-whatever, it meant awe inspiring, full of awe. Terrible meant evoking Godly or righteous fear of the Lord.  Now, awful and terrible are words I may use to describe my upcoming visit to the DMV where I will present my Xeroxed renewal and registration forms! Awful + terrible = bad!  

I own several old missals and a catechism that gives the format for making one’s confession. The penitent is instructed to conclude by saying the Act of Contrition followed by the phrase, “I beg forgiveness and penance of thee, my ghostly father.”  Ghostly?  I’m afraid the priest might laugh.  Do you ever address your priest as your Ghostly Father?  It means spiritual, of course. Most trads use the term Holy Ghost rather than Holy Spirit, but the other use, describing a person as ghostly has fallen out of use. It infers spooky, like on Scooby-do, Casper, the Friendly Ghost, a Halloween or frightening, paranormal apparition of a deceased person. 
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