There are many different ways to define the words Sex and Gender. Some would argue that the two words are synonyms, that one is just a more or less politically correct configuration of the other. Others would argue that they describe different aspects of male and female characteristics. A person's Sex would designate a place in the dichotomy between the biological makeup of males and females, and their gender would assign a role based on …
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…about their background. The sex IS gender argument is a much more practical perspective, since it is free of a distinction between sex and gender as two different things. Any definition of gender is likely to lack substance, because it implies an additional dichotomy of roles, and unnecessary to assign roles to people based on their sex, just as it is unnecessary to assign roles to people based on their race, color, creed, or anything.