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1-2 Defining Sex & Gender The backbone of any project of ‘knowledge’ is to 'define things' – i.e. to refine. When you attempt to define something, and the definition you come up with is not holistically and statistically inclusive, then it wouldn't account for all of the statistics and the variants involved in relevance. You will also, this way, marginalize some of the 'naturally occurring instances' regardless of 'how common, or how statistically significant these instances were, and you will also subconsciously label these instances, which are not included in your definition as 'anomalies' – which is not only so 'wrong', but this would also come across as just a clear manifestation of someone's defeat in their pursuit for providing a well-rounded ‘thought’ which would account for all of the variation at hand. A traditional narrative of concern at hand is relevant to a ‘binary’ view which puts forward that humans are either a male or female. One way to coherently study this aspect in animate and also non-animate references is to gather all of the relevant data in relevance to these variables and variations, and this would include, in general, a recycled set of words, mainly: sex & gender. One way to systematically study words and word meaning is to study the history and development of these words - better known as the study of word etymology. A good reference for word etymology is the Online Etymology (OED) Dictionary by Douglas Harper. Beginning with the word ‘sex’, according to (OED), [Ref. www.etymonline.com/word/sex#23308]: from late 14c., it refers to the collective males or females from Latin sexus/secus - a word of uncertain origin which also means “sex, state of being either male or female, gender”. This form seems to be derived from ‘secāre’ which means ‘to sever’ i.e. to divide or cut.