What's the Difference Between Sex and Gender

[JamesAdams-bddf]

Soo, you're saying sex is what you are and gender is what you think you are? Ok, Doc.

[randomisonline]

The Dunning Kruger effect: The phenomenon where people who know very little about a subject are confident that they know more than the majority of people.

A prime example is the people in this comments section claiming they know more about biology than biology professors.

[BlafeBala]

There's no difference. They are just synonyms.

[paulhughes]

I like how this was summed up in less than 2 minutes

[AndrewSmith-pnqc]

Do people not realize we are just debating over arbitrary definitions.

[citizenbidet]

Sex and gender were for the longest time interchangeable synonyms for the same thing. Recent common parlance has sought to ‘reassign’ different meanings to both words in order to accommodate a growing number of people wishing to identify as trans. Attempts to ‘educate’ us on these new meanings are disingenuous and incredibly patronising. They are only opinion based assertions, masquerading as fact based assertions.

[Charlie-rxni]

I identify as water Respect me or else you're a hydrophobe

[jamesfleming]

Ok so what's the difference again?

[Vicpoint]

Gender and sex are one and the same, and we've known this for a long time now. It's the very reason the roles we're expected to play based solely on our biological sex are called "gender roles" to begin with. And when you say "gender has to do with the acculturation of the individual", you're confusing gender with gender roles and norms.

Further, "how they're experiencing what they have" is awful vague, but it sounds like a circular argument at that point (e.g., a woman is someone who identifies as a woman). That doesn't logically follow, but even ignoring that, it would clash with the previous part of your definition. After all, if someone adhered to the behavioral norms and culturally constructed roles of a woman, but identified as a man, what would they be?