What is the difference between sex and gender?

Answer 1

Sex is a biological term used to distinguish between individuals based on their genitalia.

Gender is a social construct, it is has been established to distinguish between the social attributes of a male and a female. These include the etiquette of how a person should act based on their "sex."

Answer 2

The 1913 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary has a note in the "gender" entry stating that only words have a gender, while living things have a sex. One of the definitions of "gender" says it means "sex", but this is marked as obsolete or colloquial. Some conservatives complain that transgender people are trying to turn sex and gender into two different things. The fact is that they really are two different things, and it's not a recent distinction.

In modern use, the word "sex" refers to physical characteristics, while "gender" refers to behavior and interests. I'm just guessing, but I'd say the modern usage probably comes from the way the adjectives we use for ourselves, the verbs we "do", and the "adverbly" ways we do them, are all gendered (if not literally, then at least in the sense that some things are seen as "feminine" and some things as "masculine").

Answer 3

I have seen many instances where gender and sex are used interchangeably, as if they mean the same thing. There are some crucial differences between the two.

I use this simple saying to help people remember the differences-

*Gender is between the ears (who you see yourself as, whether male or female)

*Sex is between the legs (whether you are physically male or female)

*Sexual orientation is who you want between the sheets (a male or a female)

The reason people use the terms indiscriminately is that for many people, sex and gender are the same.

But what do you do when you have an unshakable feeling that you feel like a girl inside, but you have a boy's body? Your gender is female and your sex is male.

Gender and sex are similar, but are different concepts.

Answer 4

There is a HUGE difference between sex and gender. Sex is relates to the differintiating male /female by reporductive organs; gender refers to behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex.

While one is physical the other is mental; that is why some men and women feel that they mentally (gender) are the opposite sex.

Answer 5

Sex is between the legs (plus a lot of fun)
Gender is how one perceives oneself as female or male in their minds eye.

We are all born of one sex, but we all have two genders in our personality. For most people, one gender is dominate over the other. In other people, such as Crossdressers, neither gender is dominate.

Answer 6

Gender is a noun and it refers to being male or female.

Sex can be used for the same purpose as the word gender. And often sex is used as the physical acts between two lovers, be they heterosexual or homosexual.

Answer 7

Sex refers to the external, physical aspects we usually attribute to gender.

Gender refers to how a person sees themselves (male, female, or intersexed).

Answer 8

What's the difference between a human being and the moon?

Answer 9

FROM DICTIONARY.COM

SEX
sex /sɛks/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[seks] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. either the male or female division of a species, esp. as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.
2. the sum of the structural and functional differences by which the male and female are distinguished, or the phenomena or behavior dependent on these differences.
3. the instinct or attraction drawing one sex toward another, or its manifestation in life and conduct.
4. coitus.
5. genitalia.
–verb (used with object) 6. to ascertain the sex of, esp. of newly-hatched chicks.
—Verb phrase7. sex up, Informal. a. to arouse sexually: The only intent of that show was to sex up the audience.
b. to increase the appeal of; to make more interesting, attractive, or exciting: We've decided to sex up the movie with some battle scenes.

—Idiom8. to have sex, to engage in sexual intercourse.

GENDER
gen·der1 /ˈdʒɛndər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[jen-der] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. Grammar. a. (in many languages) a set of classes that together include all nouns, membership in a particular class being shown by the form of the noun itself or by the form or choice of words that modify, replace, or otherwise refer to the noun, as, in English, the choice of he to replace the man, of she to replace the woman, of it to replace the table, of it or she to replace the ship. The number of genders in different languages varies from 2 to more than 20; often the classification correlates in part with sex or animateness. The most familiar sets of genders are of three classes (as masculine, feminine, and neuter in Latin and German) or of two (as common and neuter in Dutch, or masculine and feminine in French and Spanish).
b. one class of such a set.
c. such classes or sets collectively or in general.
d. membership of a word or grammatical form, or an inflectional form showing membership, in such a class.

2. sex: the feminine gender.
3. Archaic. kind, sort, or class.

Answer 10

Some just make the question shorter by using the shorter word---means the same when asking Male or female......Got you.