Quality rant, thanks for the on point wording!
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LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days agoHumans have more than 2 sexes. Sex is a convenient category based around a phenotype, not a golden rule that all organisms adhere to. People who exist outside those phenotypes are not defective or malformed and do not necessarily require surgeries to ‘correct’ their bodies and make them fall in line with binary sex categories.
By asserting sex as binary and immutable you are actually doing the legwork of transphobia for transphobes. They also assert that sex is binary and immutable. They deny that anything such thing as gender identity or expression exists in the first place, instead asserting that gendered behavior is a direct product of biology.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
No, we only have 2 sexes. Sperm producers and egg producers. We call those male and female. All of the other stuff is window dressing.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
How kind of you to brush all intersex people off as “window dressing”. Also, I guess you dont exist at all if you dont produce eggs or sperms then.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I don’t mean intersex people, I mean everything. Our whole bodies. The structure doesn’t matter. Only the gametes matter for this definition.
Biological sex, defined by gametes, is what we have in common with the birds, bees, and apple trees even though none of those have genetics anyway similar to our own.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
Gametes are not useful for this definition, not everyone produces any gametes. More to the actual root of the problem, sex is almost never determined by gametes or by chromosomes. Genetics is very rarely the basis by which sex is determined. It is almost exclusively determined by external appearance. Legitimately, almost 100% of the time. In rare circumstances tests are performed to determine intersex status. But for the overwhelming majority of people the only basis by which their sex has ever been determined is by external appearance.
Gamete production is cool and what not. It is also almost entirely irrelevant to the discussion of intersex people and the precise number of sexes there are. Strictly speaking not all organisms are sortable into the categories of male and female. Thats the reality. To ignore them is to deny reality. To define them as malformed is to dehumanize them. To demand they exist in a binary world ignorant to their experience is to discriminate against them.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Yeah, sex is bimodal, not binary
AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Perfect use of scientific vocabulary.