Grammar 101 - Sex vs. Gender
This one irks me consistently, animals, including humans, have a sex, not a gender
Sex is one's biological construction, i.e male or female, hung or split.
Gender is a linguistic convention that refers to or identifies the subjects sex's sex, masculine for male, feminine for female, neuter (or neutral) for things without sex (i.e . his, hers or its) ). Gender identitiy is a whole 'nother issue beyond the scope of a firearms BBS.