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At some point, rather ambiguously, in the 20th century the term "gender" started to also refer to a sense of being male or female as a person, at least at some times and some places.
Ruth Ginsburg took credit for that
It doesn't mean anything at all. It's a completely ideological contrivance.
Historically, for over a century, people have used the term "gender" to mean "sex," a kind of polite synonym for that particular biological status that doesn't happen to be exactly the same word as the activity people do when they're getting down with one another.
The term seems to have been an import from grammar, where certain words are said to have a gender (masculine, feminine, and sometimes neuter), which is not really much of a feature of the English language but is common in others like Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and German.
At some point, rather ambiguously, in the 20th century the term "gender" started to also refer to a sense of being male or female as a person, at least at some times and some places. Most people still just used it as a polite synonym for "sex," though, in the biological sense.
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