I'm realizing that I have no idea which of my friends actually wear makeup. I tend to assume that none ever do, or perhaps a few do for special occasions only. But I could be way off base.
My understanding is that "female", etc, refer to genetalia, or some other biological characteristic(s) (i.e. "sex", if you're into the sex/gender distinction); and those other terms refer to "gender", i.e. how someone socially presents themself.
I appreciate this explanation, but I don't think I agree. I would use "male" and "female" to refer to either sex or gender. When I want to clarify what I mean by a male-to-female transgendered person, for example, I might say "someone who is sexed male and gendered female." Which is to say that I think "identify as male" is clearly about gender and not sex, and means almost the same thing as "identify as a boy/guy/man" (but not quite, because if I recall correctly there are lesbian subcultures that have female boys, and I have at least one vaguely genderqueer female friend who refers to herself as a guy).
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