Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...?

• powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  From the author of that paper:

  xcancel.com/ClaireAinsworth/…/888365994577735680

  In your piece ‘Sex Redefined’ are you making the claim there are more than 2 sexes?

  No, not at all. Two sexes, with a continuum of variation in anatomy/physiology.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    That last quote reads as “Red and blue. Don’t need a word for purple.”

    But we do need a word for purple.

    This is an English and categorization problem.

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    • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      A better analogy for the author’s clarification would be “Red and blue, each with a continuum of variation in hue”. There’s still no purple, just different shades of red and different shades of blue. I don’t really have more to add beyond pointing out that this is the author of the paper directly clarifying that point.

      You’re free to invent whatever categories you find useful of course. But biologists will continue to recognize human sex as binary, because that is a useful description of the reality they encounter.

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