Talk:Lapis Lazuli/@comment-28534299-20160525222150/@comment-24435322-20160529162410

Actually they can be both genderless and sexless.

The terms sex and gender are different sides of the same coin. Sex refers to the biological side (male or female, depending primarily on the chromosomes) and gender is the social/psychological aspect (masculine or feminine, depending on how they feel or identify themselves).

I believe that since Gems (who are planted and come out of the ground) do not reproduce the way humans do (which requires male and female partners), the distinction of sex does not apply to them. So you could call them sexless. And since the binary concept of sex does not exist among Gems, they likely have not developed a (at least a strong) concept of identifying as masculine or feminine, so distinct genders don't apply to them either. Thus you could also call them genderless as well.