One is a social gender, one is a physical sex. There’s a big difference, let’s take a transgender man. Whom is a female and do not intend to transition. They’ll largely appear and act like most men do, but they’ll be female. Them being female only matters in a few contexts.
Personally I disagree, I use them exclusively for gender, and encourage others to do the same. If sex is needed for discussion a two word phrase can be used to clarify.
Under what you say “female housing” could mean only/all afab people, all women are welcome (because it’s being used as an adjective), only cis women and nontransitioning afab nonbinary people are welcome, and various stages of transition needing to be met by trans woman for us to be welcome.
If you want women only housing, you say that.
If you want female only housing, you say that.
Although none of them would ever refer exclusively to AFAB.
Women only, would refer to anyone considering themselves a woman (non binary not included)
Female only, would refer to anyone legally considered a female (I believe most countries have a signature in the SSN - I’m aware the US don’t, but it’s still an internal field registered somewhere)
Men can be male or female.
Women can be male or female.
Nonbinary people fan be male or female.
(Okay there’s also a category of intersex)
One is a social gender, one is a physical sex. There’s a big difference, let’s take a transgender man. Whom is a female and do not intend to transition. They’ll largely appear and act like most men do, but they’ll be female. Them being female only matters in a few contexts.
But man is not equal male. Far from it.
No
Personally I disagree, I use them exclusively for gender, and encourage others to do the same. If sex is needed for discussion a two word phrase can be used to clarify.
Under what you say “female housing” could mean only/all afab people, all women are welcome (because it’s being used as an adjective), only cis women and nontransitioning afab nonbinary people are welcome, and various stages of transition needing to be met by trans woman for us to be welcome.
If you want women only housing, you say that. If you want female only housing, you say that.
Although none of them would ever refer exclusively to AFAB.
Women only, would refer to anyone considering themselves a woman (non binary not included)
Female only, would refer to anyone legally considered a female (I believe most countries have a signature in the SSN - I’m aware the US don’t, but it’s still an internal field registered somewhere)
Similar idea was already mentioned in this thread and got disagreed with and downvoted into oblivion, so I assume this is controversial
See P.P.S and P.P.P.S