I’m not here to change anybody’s mind because let’s be real, I’m not going to do that. This is really just for those who agree with the headline of this column because the girls who get it, get it and the girls who don’t, don’t. And that’s the motto.
But let’s just get semantics out of the way. Sex is biologically based; we are talking chromosomes and genitalia. Also, there are three sexes: male, female and intersex.
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