what do people say sex when the mean gender?

[Father Time]

[550]

Why do people say what when they mean why?

[mmy.]

IDK

[659]

its formal

[Christine]

They're easy to get mixed up, but they are two separate things.
People are ignorant.

[Tikimaskedman]

Sex and gender are interchangeable terms when asking for gender. When I apply for things, it almost always says "sex" instead of "gender".

[court]

Someone CAN have gender identity issues, but not sex identity issues, unless they're REALLY stupid. It's not stupid at all to have genre identity issues.

[candice]

Huh I didn't understand you question. Did you mean WHY do people say sex when theY mean gender?

well if it is then they use it because both *sex* and *gender* mean the same. Simple as that.
just like sex has two meanings. One is gender and the the other one is you know that im not gonna explain all , also saying sex instead of gender is more formal. if you see while creating an account on facebook for eg. you see that they write sex instead of gender.So i thiunk that's the reason you can use both actually.
Thanks for reading ☺ ^_^

[SYED]

they are synonyms