> Realizing that men and women are different and a man putting on a dress doesn't make him a woman goes back much further across all cultures
Some cultures have known that things are not binary for a very long time:
Some cultures have known that things are not binary for a very long time:
Being "a wife to start a family" requires a person with female sex, and is typically associated with female gender. But that association is not required, and has not been so across all human cultures and all time.
FWIW, I try to use "male/males" to refer to sex, and "man/men" to refer to gender, since AFAICT, there are no terms that clearly refer to gender.
"men" and "women" should not have their meaning diluted. They already have the meaning of "male" and "female".