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imperfect_cupcake · 12-30-2014, 11:48 AM

As for gender and sex being confused I blame forms for that partially. They *used* to say "sex" male or female. But I'm guessing some prude thought the term sex was offensive instead of accurate and over about a decade I started seeing "gender" male or female (wrong!!! And very, very irritating, especially in a doctors office, who should know better).

We were taught in *high school* (at least in vancouver) the difference between gender and sex, so it's not new. It's been confused through - but I do know that when I went back to school to anthropology class and that was one of the first classes, everyone already knew the difference. And last year when I started massage school, that was one of the first classes in teaching anatomy - terms. And gender vs sex was one of the things to know. Nobody in my class had been to Uni save me, and aside from one 18 year old, they all knew the difference before anything was said... I think it's part of basic year 11 biology class to talk about the difference between sex and gender.

So I'm wondering how it gets confused so badly? Is it media?

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imperfect_cupcake Senior Member How Do You Identify?: feminine dolly dyke Preferred Pronoun?: Your Grace Relationship Status: I put my own care first Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: In a gauze of mystery Posts: 1,776 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,426 Thanked 9,712 Times in 1,611 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	As for gender and sex being confused I blame forms for that partially. They used to say "sex" male or female. But I'm guessing some prude thought the term sex was offensive instead of accurate and over about a decade I started seeing "gender" male or female (wrong!!! And very, very irritating, especially in a doctors office, who should know better). We were taught in high school (at least in vancouver) the difference between gender and sex, so it's not new. It's been confused through - but I do know that when I went back to school to anthropology class and that was one of the first classes, everyone already knew the difference. And last year when I started massage school, that was one of the first classes in teaching anatomy - terms. And gender vs sex was one of the things to know. Nobody in my class had been to Uni save me, and aside from one 18 year old, they all knew the difference before anything was said... I think it's part of basic year 11 biology class to talk about the difference between sex and gender. So I'm wondering how it gets confused so badly? Is it media?