I think we need to stop this focus on GENDER. When a child wants to wear the clothing that society has assigned to the other sex....>is that a gender choice or a clothing choice?  When boys want to play with dolls and girls with trucks, is it a gender choice or a play choice?

-- I thought this issue was settled decades ago when it was okay for our screen actresses (oh the faux pas!) to cut their hair short, or for male (sex) actors to have long hair >>>like a girl (please stop!).  Dustin Hoffman playing a woman: was that an ugly misappropriation of gender, like a non-black actor playing the part of a black?

 -- When I was growing up in the 60's, people in my church revolted against a new pastor that preached it was wrong for women to wear slacks. Are pants a GENDER choice?

 -- Gender has become sex, Oh Glory! this is good!  
But when conservatives used to say sex = gender, that was BAD!
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gender = sex
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sex = gender