Is sex and gender really different?

I always thought they were the same.
Everything is confusing these days. I'm a dumbass bigot transphobe according to everything.
Im sorry.
The more I try to learn the more confused I feel.
I'm open to everyone's perspective, but the gender spectrum just dosent make sense in my brain...i don't mean to sounds ignorant and hateful it's just.... True.

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Heartlander · 80-89, M

Yes. I think so.

I grew up with just brothers and what made girls girls was longer hair and that they usually wore dresses and had a softer disposition and were referenced in terms of prettiness and cutes. I realized that they would one day grow up to be mothers, and somehow understood that storks knew when girls and boys married. Otherwise I didn't know, or care if they were otherwise different. or what sex was about. So my awareness and definition of gender came a while before my awareness of sex.