jwb

it's not the exact same but some attributes are more universal than others. There are fairly broad generalizations you can make about gender that apply regardless of the culture you are referring to.

This is what I mean by social construct being a misleading term. There's no one definition of life or what makes an entity a form of life. There are multiple competing definitions. There's no one definition of species or what differentiates one species from another. But life is still a natural phenomenon. So is speciation. The fact that it's complicated doesn't make it any less concrete a description of some underlying reality.

As WWWP said, people hate grey areas. To me, the gender abolitionist approach seems like they seize on the grey areas and then conclude that the category is invalid because it's not clear cut black and white. I'm perfectly willing to accept the grey areas and that doesn't make me think the category itself is problematic.