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• powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is often a point of confusion, but human sex is binary. There’s edge cases that require clarification as to how they fit into the binary, but don’t disprove it.

  Human sexuality overall is complex and that’s why we differentiate gender from sex. The sex binary and gender spectrum complement each other though, and don’t clash.

  If you’re interested in learning more, here’s some background reading:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonochorism

  We fall into that category, where we have two body plans, each organized around producing either sperm or ova. Other species have more body plans, such as recognizably distinct males, females, and hermaphrodites:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trioecy

  Those species are a good contrast. Humans don’t have that variation, and so sex is binary in humans.

  There’s literature that explains this specifically in detail, though most of it doesn’t really explicitly talk about it, much like math papers don’t generally explain that integers can be added together.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s edge cases that require clarification

    Ok, yes. That’s where I believe the binary is false.

    You have red, you have blue, and then there’s a bunch of egde cases. To me that’s not the end of the story. I believe purple exists.

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    • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you have a particular edge case in mind? One that’s commonly brought up is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovotesticular_syndrome, but that doesn’t fall outside the sex binary. Having a bit of nonfunctional tissue doesn’t affect one’s sex.

      Colors aren’t a great analogy either, because in anisogamous species, gametes are strictly binary. There’s sperm and ova, with 0 overlap and 0 other options. “Purple gametes” just don’t exist.

      This also isn’t my opinion, this is the accepted definition in the field of biology.

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not anymore, no.

        Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic | Scientific American share.google/T8SeIlF6VVw1nWogD

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    • ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So those who cannot reproduce and aren’t in either category are still human. And therefore in a third category.

        Red, blue, none. Three categories.

        Also, intersex can sometimes reproduce.

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    • ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ok there Isaac Newton. Call it violet.

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• RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Every gender is binary because the universe we live in is a simulation run on the higher sphere’s equivalent of a pentium iii.

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