Talk:Luka Urushibara/@comment-98.246.49.97-20160621123345/@comment-1175135-20160816065257

213.185.225.88, you're wrong and loanwords are not English.

http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/77468 gender, n. 1. Grammar. a. In some (esp. Indo-European) languages, as Latin, French, German, English, etc.: each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, neuter, common) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections which they have and which they require in words syntactically associated with them; similarly applied to adjectives (and in some languages) verbs, to denote the appropriate form for accompanying a noun of such a class. Also: the fact, condition, or property of belonging to such a class; the classification of language in this way.

Sometimes called grammatical gender, to distinguish this sense from natural gender: see grammatical gender at grammatical adj. 1a, natural gender n. at natural adj. and adv. Special uses 2. In most European languages, grammatical gender is now only very loosely associated with natural distinctions of sex. ... c1390 (▸?c1350)    St. Theodora l. 110 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 36 (MED),  Hire name, þat was femynyn Of gendre, heo turned in to masculyn. c1450  in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 32   How many thyngis falleth to a noun? Sixe..: qualite, comparison, gendre, noumbre, fygure, and case. ... 3. a. gen. Males or females viewed as a group; = sex n.1 1. Also: the property or fact of belonging to one of these groups. Originally extended from the grammatical use at sense 1  (sometimes humorously), as also in Anglo-Norman and Old French. In the 20th cent., as sex came increasingly to mean sexual intercourse (see sex n.1 4b), gender began to replace it (in early use euphemistically) as the usual word for the biological grouping of males and females. It is now often merged with or coloured by sense 3b.

1474  in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 142 (MED),  His heyres of the masculine gender of his body lawfully begoten. a1500 (▸a1460)    Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 408  Has thou oght writen there Of the femynyn gendere? ... b. Psychol. and Sociol. (orig. U.S.). The state of being male or female as expressed by social or cultural distinctions and differences, rather than biological ones; the collective attributes or traits associated with a particular sex, or determined as a result of one's sex. Also: a (male or female) group characterized in this way.

1945  Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 58 228  In the grade-school years, too, gender (which is the socialized obverse of sex) is a fixed line of demarkation, the qualifying terms being ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’. 1950  Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 63 312  It [sc. Margaret Mead's Male and Female] informs the reader upon ‘gender’ as well as upon ‘sex’, upon masculine and feminine rôles as well as upon male and female and their reproductive functions. .

"Gender identity" is a dumb term and there's no need to put identity on gender. Sex refers to the body, or what's on the body, not to reproduction.

TheSwedishElf, shouldn't a woman own a womb?