gender: "late Middle English: from Old French gendre (modern genre ), based on Latin genus ‘birth, family, nation.’ The earliest meanings were ‘kind, sort, genus’ and ‘type or class of noun, etc."

I could do some research on it tbh

i dont think the chinese call the act of reproduction sex

consitering they have no latin roots

we are talking about the west

so not most languages

the Chinese have 5 different words using the same 3 letters

in the same order

if you go to asian countries, there's not even pronouns

kanjis are gendered

let's not dig a bigger hole into this

really i think only spanish has a word close to sex

sexo

what feminists are trying to do, removing gendered names of things can't even be done in most asian languages

italians use sesso

replace gender on all forms with "chromo" and have it be Y/X

portuguese too

well french use sexe

good luck trying to fix German if they are trying to make it "gender neutral"

even then though latin languages are also the most common languages to have a word with multiple definitions

and have those words transfer from verb to noun

also boats have genders apparently

but not sex

@Arch-Fiend is there no other language in which there is multiple words that mean the same thing?

yes there are

i think most languages do grenade

which is why "they use gender insted of sex because sex can also be a verb" is a weak argument

asking for the "sex" is also informal

its also not how science works

asking "gender" is considered the formal way of asking it

language has nothing to do with science

this is language, not science

perhaps you shouldent have been arguing that gender is a scientific word earlier then

most languages follow irrational evolutions

pretty sure science usually refers to things officially by sex, unofficially by whatever is common colloquial language

because the verb for sex in science is reproduction

or compitulation

or insemination

you misrepresent his statements

gender has, in colloquial English, be the same as biological sex.

then i can easly say it doesent exist