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sex; gender

xìng bié
WordHSK 3
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Mary is transgender.
性别
I'm transgender.
性别
Alex is non-binary.
That's not what I mean. Sex discrimination, female discrimination, whatever, men and women are just different.
We use the word "ĝi" when we are not talking about a man or a woman, but about something that has no sex or whose sex is unknown or indifferent to us. Consequently, we can almost always use this word very well in place of "tio", whose meaning is almost the same.