That makes sense. The term woman has existed in the English language for quite a while. The term gender has only existed since the 1950s. So clearly the definition of woman aligns with sex. That doesn't mean that gender can't exist. The point is that a word didn't get redefined in the 1950s just because someone made a new, and at that time obscure word.
That's like how language works. And rules that have been written since before 1950 clearly didn't intend that definition considering gender didn't exist. And that makes the use of woman in law a term of law that needs to have consistent meaning. If law makers want gender to apply and not sex they can explicitly invoke gender. I suspect many of them have without understanding the word's meaning.
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That makes sense. The term woman has existed in the English language for quite a while. The term gender has only existed since the 1950s. So clearly the definition of woman aligns with sex. That doesn't mean that gender can't exist. The point is that a word didn't get redefined in the 1950s just because someone made a new, and at that time obscure word.
That's like how language works. And rules that have been written since before 1950 clearly didn't intend that definition considering gender didn't exist. And that makes the use of woman in law a term of law that needs to have consistent meaning. If law makers want gender to apply and not sex they can explicitly invoke gender. I suspect many of them have without understanding the word's meaning.