Editing Gender identity (section)

===Binary gender identities===
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While academic usage of terms ''man'' and ''woman'' began to diverge at the same time, and become more restricted to concepts related to gender,<ref name="Haig-2004" /> this distinction was not universal (and still is not) even in academic usage, and even less so in more informal writing or in speech, which often conflate the two.<ref name="Stuhlsatz-2020">{{cite journal |last1=Stuhlsatz |first1=Molly A. M. |last2=Buck Bracey |first2=Zoë E. |last3=Donovan |first3=Brian M. |title=Investigating Conflation of Sex and Gender Language in Student Writing About Genetics |journal=Science & Education |date=December 2020 |volume=29 |issue=6 |pages=1567–1594 |doi=10.1007/s11191-020-00177-9 |bibcode=2020Sc&Ed..29.1567S |s2cid=229490367 |quote=<!--p.1587-->However, 40% of the students in the genetics of human sex condition and 16% in the genetics of plant sex condition used gender language in their responses. The patterns associated with students who use gender language in their responses in the genetics of plant or human sex conditions are indicative of conflation. ...<!--p.1589-->Conflation of biological sex and gender has been shown to engender unscientific essentialist beliefs about the nature of human difference that could manifest in sexism and transphobia.}}</ref><ref name="Hall-2021">{{cite journal |last1=Hall |first1=Jennifer |last2=Jao |first2=Limin |last3=Di Placido |first3=Cinzia |last4=Manikis |first4=Rebecca |date=July 2021 |title='Deep questions for a Saturday morning': An investigation of the Australian and Canadian general public's definitions of gender |journal=Social Science Quarterly |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |volume=102 |issue=4 |pages=1866–1881 |doi=10.1111/ssqu.13021 |s2cid=238679176 |url=https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/articles/db78th94f |quote=<!--p.1873-->The next most common response category pertained to responses in which participants simply provided the terms male and female, without any further description or explanation. Examples of such responses included: 'Gender would be male/female' (A2P45) and 'Male or female' (C3P48). ... <!--p.1874-->As shown, similar proportions of Australian and Canadian participants provided responses that were coded as Feelings/Identification or that were coded as Biology. The stark difference in response patterns by country pertained to responses that were coded as Male/Female: This was the modal category for the Australian participants, with nearly one‐third of participants providing such a response, whereas Male/Female was not even in the top three response categories for the Canadian participants. |access-date=13 January 2024 |archive-date=4 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204141418/https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/articles/db78th94f |url-status=live }}</ref>