Comment on Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional
atro_city@fedia.io 2 days agoWhere are they reaching? Please quote a line or paragraph that's "reaching" in your opinion.
none of this disputes the fact the vast majority of human beings are male or female biologically. and there a subset that are not.
What are you basing that on? Do you think that doctors registered the placement of the gonads, the breast size, the penis length, amount of androgens, testosterone and other hormones for the "vast majority of humans"?
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 days ago
reaching by calling it ‘multidimensional’ when the entire article is two dimentional classifications. that’s how.
placement of your gonads or breasts has nothing to do with how male or female you are. what are you talking about?
atro_city@fedia.io 2 days ago
two dimensional
biological traits
How are these two-dimensional?
Did you even read this far?
It seems like you didn't actually read the article or just chose to ignore everything that talked about multi-dimensionality.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
those are all two dimensional spectra dude. one end male, one end female.
o1011o@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It sounds like you’re arguing that since all these traits are used to determine between a single binary classification (or spectrum) in different ways that there’s no multi-dimensionality but perhaps you’re misunderstanding.
If biological sex is something that can be accurately represented in a certain multidimensional space then every axis will necessarily have the same type of value (a range from female to male) but a different orientation (or trait being evaluated). This is the same as how you place a mathematical point in space by using 3 axes with the same type of value (-inf to +inf) but different orientations. You need all 3 axes to place the point and can’t collapse its location down to a single axis. Similarly we should understand biological sex as something that can be measured by specific traits but never collapsed down to a single value and thus is intrinsically and inescapably multidimensional.
Female to male is one dimension of measurement, yes, but that’s only meaningful for individual traits. An individual has many traits and so must be described in multidimensional terms even for a single metric.
atro_city@fedia.io 1 day ago
I'm impressed by your wilful misunderstanding. If it's not wilful, just know, it's not your fault.
Multidimensional graphs are composed of multiple 2-dimensional axes…
derAbsender@piefed.social 22 hours ago
That’s how it works.