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Old 5th January 2020, 13:49     #280
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Originally Posted by fixed_truth
It does seem to be a linguistic issue. Sex isn't a social construction, gender is (putting aside neuroscience). What if the terms male & female could be for sex, and man & woman for gender?
That’s why I originally replied to you that this is an issue of semantics.

I think new words would be better. Man and Woman mean “adult human male” and “adult human female”; the words are already sexed.
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