Kulturkampf

[DavidCroquet]

https://theconversation.com/male-and-female-plugs-and-connectors-gendered-language-for-the-ends-of-garden-hoses-electrical-cords-and-pipe-fittings-sparks-debate-270142

Professionals in some industries, including audiovisual, theater and IT, have argued that these terms are, at best, inappropriate as direct analogs to sexual intercourse and, at worst, exclusionary in their assumption of binary gender.

Further, when people use male and female, they tend to refer to the two types of connector ends as genders. The Wikipedia entry on male and female connectors is one example. But as research over the past few decades has made clear, gender and sex are not synonymous.

Sounds like someone is decades behind on the current research (i.e. Erin Reed's substack).