Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense
tahira@hilariouschaos.com 4 days ago
Unfortunately, this definition of sex is muddled and incoherent. Making gametes just one of many characteristics defining sex may free us from a politically unpopular binary, but at the cost of our ability to describe reality correctly and clearly.
Lemmy needs to drop the gender woo. It’s unscientific and makes you no better than godbotherers that you sneer at
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 days ago
Gender is not a scientific concept, sex is. Gender is a cultural construct.
tahira@hilariouschaos.com 4 days ago
From the opening sentence of the article:
Academia has become gripped by a new religious dogma that must not be questioned. They’re trying to redefine the basic scientific terminology of sex in order to appease an unscientific political movement.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 days ago
Nobody is doing this. This is a fantasy. Gender and sex are two different things, and sex is legitimately scientifically a spectrum, hermaphrodytes and intersex people actually exist…
There’s no real problem here, just bigots being upset about things that legitimately don’t matter.
Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com 4 days ago
No sex is not a spectrum. It’s male or female.
As stated by interactadvocates.org
No, intersex is not a third sex in the traditional sense of male or female. It’s an umbrella term for people born with sex characteristics that don’t fit typical definitions of male or female. Intersex individuals can have any gender identity and sexual orientation, and many identify as either male or female
Go look at any biology book at the college level and you won’t find sex is a spectrum. That’s a fringe theory that ignores human biology.
tahira@hilariouschaos.com 4 days ago
Intersex people aren’t a monolith. What size gametes each intersex person produces determines their sex. This is the biological definition and is not a spectrum. It is binary and immutable. Gender activists are trying to shove gender into inappropriate places.
If it doesn’t matter, then it should be no big deal to drop all of the gender woo when speaking of sex, right?