>>40646258 (OP)
yeah, they're intrinisically linked
how we feel about gender comes from the brain so you can say gender identity is just part of our biological sex- and trans people then take hrt and get surgery to change other parts of it
while sex is ultimately the application of gender onto body parts, we socially construct even this category, so you can also argue sex is derivative of gender and it's linked in both directions
'gender and sex are different' with no deeper thoughts about it annoys me usually- it doesn't help trans people
people arguing with liberals saying this like it means something big could literally just agree and then go 'ah, so trans women are male women, well then, we want to exclude males rather than men' and the idea of transition and its importance won't even get to enter the picture