http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender (see 2a) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gender (see 3a)
Steve VanSlyck wrote :
This system does /not/ want to know my sex. If you're asking a living creature whether it is male or female, you are asking it's sex, not its gender. Living creatures do not come in genders. They come in sexes.
tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Steve VanSlyck wrote: The system has no interest in biology. The system wants to know your gender, so that it can use the correct grammatical gender in pronouns referring to you. I thought I made this pretty clear in the announcement.