Nekostan-e Gharbi wrote:Auzkhia wrote:Ask any animal, and there doesn't really seem to be any when looked at independently, humans will assign on to them, especially on pets. In English, one uses gendered and grammatically animate pronouns for their pets, but for any other animal, that animal is it, the genderless inanimate. Animals do not have human social identities on their own. It's all made up by humans collectively in many different ways.
Ah I get it. So the word we should use is “sex”, not “gender”.
Correct.
Sheep have sex. For example.