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Yeah "gender" is actually a theory of deconstructing the idea of culture - all the stuff lopped on top of sex and the baggage of all the world's ideas of what it means to be male and female from the pseudoscientific aspects of outmoded or outdated disproven science to the effect of religion to the behaviours mimicked and taught between generations.
Gender is cultural.
Yet "sex" is also on a spectrum.
What modern discourse gets rather fantastically wrong to my mind is for trans people it is about sex characteristics. A trans woman doesn't just want to be treated as a woman she wants to be a woman. For a lot this means the whole shebang from periods to childbirth. That's not gender, those are sex characteristics. Her issue is she can't access those aspects yet or, like other women, maybe she doesn't want nessisarily everything. She's also set outside the culture of womanhood, segregated from other women and denied community of her people socially - that IS gender.