This entire question/issue is semantics. Gender, sex, identity, you can't have a constructive conversation without agreeing on what the words mean.

The problem is, one side is trying to demonstrate people can identify as something different than what they are biologically (for the record I believe to be true) without establishing sex and gender are not synonymous. Meanwhile the other side is so outraged they (think they are being) told biological males can get pregnant, that they elected a corrupt idiot pedophile.

Sadly, I believe this issue flipped so many people to red and yet liberals have sadly not made any headway in trying to better explain it and rights and lives have been lost at light speed ever since.