There are Only Two Genders

"My opponent mistakenly uses "sex" and "gender" as synonymous." My opponent presumes this and shame on him for doing so. He even uses a dictionary definition as a justification for his grave error of assumption. Like many other so-called "progressives", my opponent clings dogmatically to the dictionary as his very arguments rest on them, like a castle on sand. The problem with modern dictionaries is that they are no longer prescriptive. They no longer define what is correct and incorrect in terms of language. Instead, they are descriptivist as they define what language is being used by the public and how that which is correct. Take the adjective "nice" for instance, the dictionary definition according to the OED is "giving pleasure or satisfaction; pleasant or attractive". That is because dictionaries are no longer prescriptive, but descriptive. The prescriptive meaning of the adjective "nice" is "foolish, stupid, senseless," as the adjective is a derivative of the latin word "nescius" meaning "ignorant, unaware," literally "not-knowing,". Only through years of misuse has the meaning been morphed. Even Fowler complained that the adjective was "too great a favorite with the ladies, who have charmed out of it all its individuality and converted it into a mere diffuser of vague and mild agreeableness." In a similar way, the use of "gender" has been morphed from its original meaning by countless years of misuse. I use the correct term, correctly. "Gender" derives from the Latin "Genus", meaning "race, stock, family; kind, sex, rank, order; species". In a way, "Gender" is a hypernym for "Sex". Either way, you fully understand what I mean when I say that there are only two genders. "The word gender has been used since the 14th century as a grammatical term, referring to classes of noun designated as masculine, feminine, or neuter in some languages." Equally, so has it been used to describe sexual, cultural, and economic differences depending on context. In fact, 14th-century usage would have been in Latin, therefore meaning "race, stock, family; kind, sex, rank, order; species" or in Old French, in which case it would mean "kind, species; character; sex", again hypernymy. "In opposing the notion that there are only two *sexes*, which is what my opponent has thus far argued, I would like to point out the existence of intersex individuals." Also, take note of my opponents list of aberrancies thereafter: "Klinefelter *Syndrome*", "Turner *Syndrome*", "Androgen Insensitivity *Syndrome*", "Adrenal *Hyperplasia*", "Vaginal *Agenesis*", "5-Alpha-Reductase *Deficiency*", "Chromosomal Mosaicism" (Technically *non-disjunction*, *anaphase lag* or endoreplication), "Complete Gonadal *Dysgenesis*" and so on. Take particular note of the postmodifiers in this list: "syndrome", "deficiency", "non-disjunction", "lag"... These do not constitute genders, they constitute medical abnormalities. The abnormalities of the few do not define the normalities of the many. There are not "at least 18 sexes" as my opponent claims, but 2 genders and a handful of populationally minimal medical conditions which in no way can be defined as genders. The same goes for gender identities.