You said "People can usually tell the sex of other people /who abide by traditional societal gender roles in appearance/. But no, if they encounter people who don't fit that (stereo)typical mould, usually people can't reliably tell."
And then I said a construction worker (traditionally a guy with construction clothes) is easily to tell sex even though guys are usually in construction and construction clothes are associated with clothes men wear.
I didn't say that. I said that "everybody" is grammatically a singular but refers to multiple people. Much like "they" in the example is said to be grammatically a singular by the linguistic scholars but is referring to multiple people. You keep saying that I'm challenging and saying what the scholars said is wrong and why you should believe me over them, which for like the 10th time, I never said.
The words everybody and everyone are pronouns that describe a group of people, but grammatically they are singular.
Everybody Has or Everybody Have? | Britannica Dictionary
Everybody is third person singular. The words everybody and everyone are pronouns that describe a group of people, but grammatically they are singular
But according to you, you say sex doesn't have any of these appearance traits that's directly related to sex.
Early uses of the word gender in reference to men or women tended to view it as one and the same as biological sex. According to The Oxford English Dictionary, the word gender had been used as early as the 1300s to describe categories of people. The Oxford English Dictionary’s earliest record of using the word to specifically refer to men or women, though, did not occur until 1474, when someone used it in a letter to describe what the writer refers to as the masculine gender. Over the next centuries, when gender was used to refer to men or women, it was often synonymous with biological sex. However, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, during the early twentieth century, the word sex became more associated with sexual intercourse. As discussions of sexual intercourse are largely taboo in the US, people began to use the word gender in its place to refer to a person’s status as a male or female by the end of the twentieth century, a practice that is still largely common as of 2022. However, in the 1950s, gender psychologists who studied differences between the sexes began to reframe gender as something entirely separate from biological sex.
Biological Sex and Gender in the United States | Embryo Project Encyclopedia
In the United States, most people are assigned both a biological sex and gender at birth based on their chromosomes and reproductive organs. However, there is an important distinction between biological sex and gender. Biological sex, such as male or female, commonly refers to physical...
