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Organs Cannot Simply Be Classified as Male or Female

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Submitted ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Pro@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science@mander.xyz⁩

https://www.mpg.de/25425064/0918-limn-the-sex-of-the-body-why-our-organs-cannot-simply-be-classified-as-male-or-female-153345-x

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  • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Headline:

    Organs Cannot Simply Be Classified as Male or Female

    Literally the first fucking sentence:

    Only sexual organs show clear separation

    Okay, so the only ones anyone was thinking about…?

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  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well no, the only major change is the sexual organs, but glad science can back up fact

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not really, at least last time I checked, breasts aren’t sex organs, even though there is some use…

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      • Rolder@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Men can have breasts too it just isn’t considered generally attractive

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  • verdi@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wait you’re telling me from now on a son can donate a kidney to a mother and vice-versa? /s

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  • witty_username@feddit.nl ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Original article:
    Xie et al. eLife 2025 “# Fast evolutionary turnover and overlapping variances of sex-biased gene expression patterns defy a simple binary sex classification of somatic tissues”
    dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.99602.4

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sex is not binary.

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