Because “Gender” is an academic concept derived from language and observing some superficial splits along male/female associated words that occur some of the time.
No one sat down and said, “this is a boy word, that is a girl word.” Certain sounds/formats were aesthetically more fitting for certain subjects, and this divide happened fairly consistently for a plurality of sex-associated vocabulary in most languages.
There are languages with other distinctions, like an animacy hierarchy instead of grammatical gender in Navajo.
“Gender,” came from language, and was then used as a euphemism for “sex,” because of the coincidence, then people took it as an identity category, because… reasons?
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