The first thing you need to do is realize that grammatical gender has nothing to do with actual gender or lack thereof.<p>Unless you really think a turnip is feminine, and a little girl has no gender like in German.<p>All they&#x27;re doing is describing a category of like nouns. The term for the grouping happens to be the word gender. The word is overloaded in this case to mean multiple things and is at best a false cognate.<p>The fact that the same thing can have multiple genders or lack thereof as you noted should be the biggest clue that grammatical gender has nothing to do with genitals.