@artkavanagh Oh, I agree entirely with your points about the misogyny of the attacks on her, etc. Twitter being what it is, it’s not surprising at all that their voices were the loudest.

Male and female are so slippery as adjectives. On the one hand, you’re right, they connote sex (as opposed to gender), but there are other usages where that’s not so clear. So, for example, if I want to talk about my friend who is a man, trans or cis, there might be a point where I refer to him as my male friend, which does not necessarily mean that he has a penis. My own experience has been that trans folk insist that they are male or female when those terms are invoked to exclude them in terms of gender, not when they are used as biological descriptors.