{"id":2404043,"date":"2025-02-19T07:34:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sex-isnt-a-bad-word-but-gender-is\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T07:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:35:21","slug":"sex-isnt-a-bad-word-but-gender-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sex-isnt-a-bad-word-but-gender-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex Isn&#8217;t A Bad Word, But &#8216;Gender&#8217; Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsex-isnt-a-bad-word-but-gender-is%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2404043&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article addresses a trend among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-furious-ca-restaurant-owner-confronts-inspectors-issuing-citation-are-you-gonna-pay-my-rent\/\" title=\"WATCH: Furious CA Restaurant Owner Confronts Inspectors Issuing Citation: \u2018Are You Gonna Pay My Rent?\u2019\">social media users<\/a>,particularly young individuals \u200con\u2064 TikTok,who substitute \u200cthe word &#8220;sex&#8221; with playful terms like &#8220;seggs&#8221; or &#8220;shmex&#8221; due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-white-house-told-meta-to-take-down-satire-and-true-information-emails-show\/\" title=\"Biden administration urges Meta to remove satire and &#039;true information,&#039; emails reveal.\">content moderation \u200dpolicies<\/a>. While this linguistic \u200dshift seems humorous, \u2062it highlights a serious issue: the confusion between the concepts of &#8220;sex&#8221; and &#8220;gender.&#8221; The author emphasizes that &#8220;sex&#8221; refers to\u2063 the biological categories\u2063 of male and \u200cfemale, while &#8220;gender&#8221; is a sociological concept related to the social roles and identities associated with those \u2063sexes. <\/p>\n<p>This conflation has facilitated the \u200cpromotion of radical gender ideologies, \u2064allowing individuals who identify as a different gender to\u2064 access women\u2019s spaces such as\u2064 sports \u200dand bathrooms, which raises concerns about women&#8217;s rights. Legal protections for women based \u200don sex are jeopardized, as seen \u2064in a pending Supreme Court case where Justice Alito pointed out that &#8220;gender identity&#8221; is not an immutable trait \u200clike biological sex. <\/p>\n<p>The piece argues for the importance \u2064of distinguishing between &#8220;sex&#8221; and &#8220;gender,&#8221; especially as language shift has contributed to the dilution of women\u2019s\u2064 rights.The article concludes \u2064by pointing to recent actions from\u2064 politicians, including an executive order from President Trump, asserting \u200dthe need to recognise the\u2064 binary nature\u200c of sex in federal law. \u200dMoving \u200cforward, the\u200d authors advocate for codifying this recognition to ensure it is upheld by future\u200c administrations and to\u200d clarify laws\u200d affecting women&#8217;s rights.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>No one wants to write out S-E-X anymore. In response to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">online content moderation policies<\/a> that disincentivize certain words, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/19\/style\/tiktok-avoid-moderators-words.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">growing number<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-judge-under-fire-after-ruling-transgender-volleyball-player-can-compete\/\" title=\"Biden Judge Under Fire After Ruling Trans... Volleyball Player Can Compete\">social media users &#038;mdash<\/a>; mostly young people on TikTok &mdash; are choosing to use the replacement terms &ldquo;seggs&rdquo; or &ldquo;shmex&rdquo; when they mean to say &ldquo;sex.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, it&rsquo;s a funny (if slightly Orwellian) trend, but it also speaks to a different problem, one that has disastrous consequences for women&rsquo;s rights: Because our culture acts like the word &ldquo;sex&rdquo; only has one meaning &mdash; namely, well, the birds and the bees (which, naturally, no one wants to bring up in polite society) &mdash; far too many people ignore the other meaning of the word &ldquo;sex,&rdquo; the categories of male and female, and use the word &ldquo;gender&rdquo; instead.<\/p>\n<p>One problem with that: &ldquo;Sex&rdquo; and &ldquo;gender&rdquo; are not interchangeable.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas sex is a fixed category &mdash; mammals, including humans, are born either male or female and cannot switch sexes &mdash; &ldquo;gender&rdquo; is a vague, sociological concept that refers to the social expression of sex and the social attributes associated with each sex.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, most people who confuse &ldquo;sex&rdquo; and &ldquo;gender&rdquo; do so innocently, not knowing that they are conflating an unchangeable category with a constantly shifting and ill-defined concept. Nevertheless, this popular confusion around &ldquo;sex&rdquo; and &ldquo;gender&rdquo; has laid the groundwork for far-left activists to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-at-all-secret-gay-agenda-disney-employees-break-down-adding-queerness-to-shows-and-degenderizing-theme-parks\/\" title=\"\u2018Not-At-All-Secret Gay Agenda\u2019: Disney Employees Break Down \u2018Adding Queerness\u2019 To Shows And De...izing Theme Parks\">promote radical gender ideology<\/a>, a theory that suggests males can become women, females can become men, and members of either sex can assume no sex or some other sex entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Such an ideology may be biologically nonsensical, but activists&rsquo; distortion of language, combined with the general public&rsquo;s casual but inaccurate parlance, is part of what has allowed males who simply state that they identify as women (even though this is biologically impossible) to gain access to women&rsquo;s sports, bathrooms, and prisons, among other intimate, single-sex spaces designed to protect women.<\/p>\n<p>It seems almost ridiculous that women today must defend their right to female-only spaces. The 14th Amendment&rsquo;s Equal Protection Clause and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, among other federal and state laws, protect women from discrimination <em>on the basis of sex<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is why words matter. &ldquo;Sex&rdquo; and &ldquo;gender&rdquo; are not synonyms, but because of a false ideology that has pretended they are, it has become necessary to clarify that there are only two sexes, male and female, and that women are biologically distinct from men.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Justice Alito exposed the danger of erroneously conflating &ldquo;sex&rdquo; and &ldquo;gender&rdquo; in <em>U.S. v. Skrmetti<\/em>, a pending landmark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/oral_arguments\/argument_transcripts\/2024\/23-477_c07d.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">case<\/a> considering the constitutionality of a Tennessee law that protects children from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and other sex-trait modification procedures.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/afn.net\/legal-courts\/2024\/12\/05\/alito-exposed-choose-your-gender-fantasy-in-discussion-over-immutable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posing the question<\/a> of whether being transgender is an &ldquo;immutable&rdquo; trait, Justice Alito forced the American Civil Liberties Union attorney, who was arguing that Tennessee&rsquo;s law was unconstitutional, to concede that &ldquo;gender identity&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t immutable. This is important because an &ldquo;immutable&rdquo; characteristic is a legal term that refers to whether an aspect of a person&rsquo;s identity is fundamental and unchangeable and therefore protected under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. By its very definition, &ldquo;gender,&rdquo; unlike sex, cannot be immutable, which, logically, should close the door to the left&rsquo;s attempt to treat &ldquo;gender identity&rdquo; as a protected class.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Trump gets it. On day one, he signed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive order<\/a> aptly titled &ldquo;Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.&rdquo; It declared the United States will recognize there are only two sexes, male and female, in federal law and policy, stating, &ldquo;&lsquo;Sex&rsquo; is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of &lsquo;gender identity.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It may seem silly to have to state the obvious in the form of an executive order, but it was crucial, as even those of us who oppose transgender ideology had unwittingly succumbed to the left&rsquo;s erasure of sex in the language we used.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now that President Trump has taken a profound step in the right direction and repudiated &ldquo;gender identity&rdquo; indoctrination, the focus must shift to 1) Congress to codify these definitions so they cannot be changed via executive order by a future administration and 2) the states, where laws and policies failing to differentiate between &ldquo;sex&rdquo; and &ldquo;gender&rdquo; have undermined the rights of women.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, we can start to reverse course by acknowledging reality and using language &mdash; yes, even the word &ldquo;sex&rdquo; &mdash; that reflects it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Neeraja Deshpande is a policy analyst and engagement coordinator at Independent Women&rsquo;s Forum (iwf.org). Beth Parlato is a senior legal advisor for Independent Women&rsquo;s Law Center (iwlc.org).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many avoid writing &#8220;sex,&#8221; opting for terms like &#8220;seggs&#8221; or &#8220;shmex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":2404044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Boy-and-Girl-Cutout-Decals.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15554,4685,6129,7937,36479],"class_list":["post-2404043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-communication","tag-gender","tag-language","tag-sex","tag-social-issues"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Boy-and-Girl-Cutout-Decals.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404047,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404043\/revisions\/2404047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}