Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "When The Germans Defeated Themselves" video.
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@Alfred5555 English, gramatically, has no gender. It Does, however, inherently mark Sex on a lot of nouns, including on a number that don't actually Have a sex, and things that aren't even alive.
The reason this is not gender, in gramatical terms, is that gender is specifically an agreement system, forcing the adjectives and possibly verbs to change to match, which English doesn't do.
Importantly, English doesn't actually mark gender in the sense of 'Gender Identity' either, and pretending it does is not only Really Annoying to people who care about language at all, it's also actively counterproductive to the cause of actually improving the lot of transgender people in general. Because ideological radicalisation ruins everything.
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