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The role you perform; sex is the script you were handed at birth.
means The social and personal identity of being a man, woman, both, or neither — distinct from biological sex.
from From Latin genus, meaning kind or type, via Old French gendre; for centuries it just meant grammatical category before it migrated to people.
Grammar firstFrench and German still gender their nouns relentlessly.
Sex vs genderBiology versus identity; the distinction is recent.
Spectrum viewMany cultures recognized third genders for millennia.