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Gender was originally used to describe words.

At some point it was also used as a (probably less common than it is now) synonym for sex.

It was chosen to describe the non-physical concept we now call gender exactly because the original use to describe words doesn't have anything to do with genitalia -- and the intent was that "gender" would refer only to what's between one's ears and "sex" only to what's between one's legs.