Comments by "Joshua Taylor" (@joshuataylor3550) on "Public React: What Is A Woman?" video.

That's sex, he's asking about gender.
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@DRPenha 'female' is a sex. 'Woman' is a gender. Sex heavily correlates with one gender over another but it doesn't have to, e.g. trans and non-binary people. Sex is 'real', genetic and phenotypic. Gender is 'imagined'; there's nothing about the colour blue that is inherently masculine, it's just become associated culturally in our society, other societies across time and space don't have this association, (often the opposite). Sex is always stable and unchanging. Gender is often stable and unchanging for many, for others it's fluid, this is in no way dangerous or scary. So you can all relax. There's no way to possibly argue sex and gender are the same. You're instead arguing that gender doesn't exist full stop (I think), which is also wrong. A transwoman is a woman. But they are also male. Hopefully that clears up the distinction for all you folks.
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@DRPenha a girl is a word for a young woman, still a reference to gender, not sex. Hopefully my explanation and the dictionary you copied makes sense to you now? I know the world can feel confusing, but it's not designed to upset you
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@DRPenha A woman is an older girl as well yes.... both statements are true. A woman is an older girl so inherently a girl is a younger woman, by the same token. The cut off point is arbitrary. Some, but not all, will consider the legal age of adulthood as the cut off point for when they start/stop referring to an individual as a girl or a woman. It remains that these are gender terms. Only male/female refers to sex. I hope you're feeling better.
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@DRPenha gender exists along a spectrum of appearances and behaviours considered culturally masculine through to feminine. You're right to point out the words used to define these range of genders is not so important. As long as those words don't already mean something else, e.g. male/female which relate to sex, a distinct concept from gender. Sex is binary (with the rare exception of intersex). Gender is much more nuanced and complex and exists along a spectrum, so it is not binary.
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@DRPenha the gender spectrum has a masculine half and a feminine half, with a non-binary slot in the middle. What we call 'man/boy etc.' falls somewhere on the masculine side, 'woman/girl eyc.' falls somewhere on the feminine. Makes sense?
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