No Steve I don't want to fight any semantic battle on those two words. I just have a different lifelong understanding: gender as all matters—biological and psychological— of male and female and sex as a reproductive or recreational activity that humans usually perform in a horizontal position. But, agreed, this is not the hill I want to die on either.

The singular they, OTOH, I will resist to my dying day.

But I need less conflict in my life, not more, and aside from "they" and the nasty people and their screams of victimhood, I don't have a dog in this fight.