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You're directly contradicting the argument that every trans activist has been making for decades by saying that sex and gender are "effectively the same thing". Is that really what you want to be doing here?
It's objectively the truth that sex is another class category created by humans to sort people and enforce a hierarchy of sex. That argument (trans women are male women) was adopted to appeal to cisgender people.
I'm female, I am a woman. I'm not male. My legal sex is female.
This is patently false. It was a category to distinguish between two observable variations of human. The category of man/woman existed in the annals of history far beyond what we know today. Before we were humans, we knew instinctively what a man/woman was. You see these systems in herding species already. Don't give me this "we created this division just so we could dunk on others" bullcrap.
But there are more than 2 observable variations of humans.
There have also been many cultures with more 2 than sexes/genders (the difference is literally 0 prior to the 50s).
And animals have genitals but they do not have conceptions of sex. They don't abstract categories from physical attributes they just recognize and respond to the bodies around them.
So what do you call a baby that has a penis but isn't old enough to tell you whether they are a boy or a girl?
A baby. Are it's genitals relevant somehow?