"Doctors prepared to do an emergency cesarean delivery, but in the operating room no fetal heartbeat was heard. Moments later, the man delivered a stillborn baby."

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If men have babies, what’s even the point of talking about gender and sex categories? The categories are literally meaningless.

First:
“Sex” and “Gender” were synonyms. They both meant male and female as traditionally understood. Girls. Boys. Pink. Blue.

Then:
“Sex” and “Gender” were separated. Sex referred to biology. Gender referred to cultural norms around biology. Male vs. Masculine. Gender—being cultural—was malleable, and things like gender fluidity and transgender became common terms.

Now:
Sex and gender are synonyms again. But now they mean “malleable designations that mean whatever an individual wants them to mean.” The malleability of culturally-based gender notions has been back-migrated into biological sex.

Except that’s not how biology works.
Biology isn’t assigned. It’s observed.

Biological sex is traceable all the way down to DNA. It’s a real, biological, scientifically-observable thing that exists across the biological kingdom.

Current practices around sex and gender are increasingly unscientific and insane. We are ignoring basic science to drive a moral agenda. It’s flat-earthers all over again—but with biology.

Transmen aren’t men. They’re transmen.
Transwomen aren’t women. They’re transwomen.

They are different biological categories, and the implications are far-reaching—from medical care, to sports equality, to dating, sex, and marriage, and more.

If we need more terms in our vocabulary to reflect a broader and more nuanced, spectrum, then let’s use more terms. But trying to use the same two words we’ve always used to mean “all the things” is a fool’s errand.