A coherent account of gender's social construction requires a stable, pre-social reference point—namely biological sex—to explain what gender is constructed upon or in response to.

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Reference point(Reference dependence framework): A baseline from which changes in welfare are evaluated; can be a person's current state of wealth, an aspiration level, or a hypothetical point of comparison
Social construction(as used in the broader argument of the statement): The idea that something we think of as natural or fixed is actually created by society—like how we decide what counts as an 'impairment' based on our values and how we've built things.
biological sex(as distinguished from the social concept of gender): The physical and genetic characteristics (like chromosomes, hormones, and reproductive organs) that categorize bodies as typically male or female.
coherent account(describes a successful philosophical explanation): An explanation that makes logical sense and doesn't contradict itself; all the pieces fit together like a puzzle.

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