Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-24863788-20151005171740/@comment-1916997-20151007163309

Arctucrus wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Gevorg89 wrote: Doesn't matter what you think about yourself or how mutilated your body - your gender is your sex and is how you were born. This is not helping, on multiple levels. It's not helping decide what we should do on the wiki, and it's not helping get a discussion going about the difference between the words. My argument from above is a much better one:

The sex and gender distinction is not universal. In ordinary speech,  sex and  gender are often used interchangeably. Are you calling us ordinary? :P ;)

Nah but jokes aside --

How about this, let me ask this:

Aside from the extra work (which, come to think of it, I'm rather sure it could be done with a bot, no...? I'm no expert, but it seems simple enough... :o), what are the negatives? Would anyone actually be angry about us calling it "sex" instead of "gender"? I doubt it, because for those of us who don't differentiate, it'd be the same thing, versus for those of us who do, it'd make all the difference.



As for the actual comment: That's a valid point. I'm not sure how much work it would take to change "Gender" to "Sex", but it's for the infoboxes, and they work off templates, so if we just change the template, that changes all the infoboxes, right? So yeah, if it's bothering people (and because sex is the most correct word), I'm okay with it being changed. The real question is: is that a hard thing to change? I don't know, but if an admin or mod could let us know, that would be helpful.