gender

June 21, 2025.Reading time 7 minutes.

forbidden word project

image: more magic © Holly Troy 6.2025

“It is possible to define gender as interchangeable with “sex,” indicating that the term can be used when differentiating male creatures from female ones biologically. However, the concept of gender, a word primarily applied to human beings, has additional connotations having to do with general behavior, social interactions, and most importantly, one’s fundamental sense of self . . . ”