Exactly,
Golf is a hobby, ( at least for me it is some may differ on that) collecting stamps is a hobby.
John is the male equivalent to hooker.
Yes they are all just words and if anybody hates cancel culture and the nonsense surrounding which pronoun to use it is me.
Having said that there is something to be said about trying to be polite and kind especially when you know the use of a particular word is offensive to someone, it is not that difficult to use another word instead, luckily most languages have enough of a vocabulary to be able to do that easily.