Dragons are currently classified for breeding purposes based on their gender- for example, both the Search function, the Scrying Workshop, and the Auction House filter use "Gender" as their category for searching for physically male or female dragons. This is incorrect. Gender is the social construct based on personal identity- whether you identify as male or female. Gender is psychological.
Sex is your biological state based on primary and secondary sex characteristics, such as genitals and hormones. Sex is physical. This is what the use of the word "gender" on the site is intending to be referencing in the way that our dragons are categorized for breeding, which is incorrect.
Using the term "gender" to indicate the physical state of a dragon's sex is incorrect, and a commonly made mistake that I feel should be corrected.
My suggestion is to change the use of "gender" on the site's filter, and the classification of dragons as "male" or "female" from the word "Gender" to the word "Sex," because that is the correct term.
Thank you.
Sex is your biological state based on primary and secondary sex characteristics, such as genitals and hormones. Sex is physical. This is what the use of the word "gender" on the site is intending to be referencing in the way that our dragons are categorized for breeding, which is incorrect.
Using the term "gender" to indicate the physical state of a dragon's sex is incorrect, and a commonly made mistake that I feel should be corrected.
My suggestion is to change the use of "gender" on the site's filter, and the classification of dragons as "male" or "female" from the word "Gender" to the word "Sex," because that is the correct term.
Thank you.
