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The concept of biological sex relies heavily on it being a strict binary. Without this strict binary, it requires so many caveats and clarification to actually work, it quickly becomes unuseful neither in medical, nor in societal sense.

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Th4tGuyII@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You're calling it a concept, but biological sex isn't a concept in the same way as gender is. We didn't just make sexes up.

There are very real physiological differences between those with XX chromosomes and XY.

And while I do agree with you that we should be teaching a more spectral view of sex that acknowledges those who don't fit into the normal XX and XY model...

I simply cannot agree with the notion that our model of sex is medically useless because it doesn't perfectly cover <1% of the population without caveats.

And then calling biological sex a lie because you disagree on how we model it is plain anti-intellectual.

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- Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  We literally, definitionally made it all up. We had a “man” and “woman” before we knew anything about human bodies, we collectively invested in the idea of the human duality, and then every time we discovered anything that contradict that duality, we tried to cram more caveats into that just so we have this rigid categories, specifically two of them. Meanwhile the sole usefulness of the categories was that there are two of them and they are very well defined and have very specific characteristics, and can be used to predict something about a person.
  The more we learn about human bodies, the less those categories make sense, to the point where having a sex as a category is as useful as having your eye colour as your defining characteristics. Even in this thread the sex was defined as “chromosomes and the gametes and stuffs”. Having it tied to the amount of Y chromosomes wasn’t useful even in the last century, let alone now.
  No amount of deflection will save your old rigid shit you cling so much to in fear of needing to update your worldview.
  
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  - Th4tGuyII@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    That's a great story to be sure, but even ancient people knew about intersex people - that's where the original (and now often discriminatory) term "hermaphrodite" came from.
    
    The reason people keep bringing genetics and chromosomes into this is because they're the literal blueprints for our bodies.
    If its not encoded into the blueprints, our bodies cannot make it happen - and as far as humans go, there's only two basal sex templates, male and female. That's it.
    
    Anything between those two states is fair game (as we see from intersexuality), but unlike with gender it is biologically impossible to not be on that spectrum somewhere.
    Thats not a "world view", it is an empirical fact backed by decades of genetic research.
    
    If you had the resources to go find and examine every human on the planet, I guarantee you that out of the 10 billion humans that exist on Earth, not a single one would fall outside that spectra. I'd bet my life on it a million times over.
    
    Additionally, you really could not be more wrong about sex being a useless category.
    Your sex is one of the most medically significant traits you can have - at times even more important than your ethnicity in determining clinical outcomes.
    
    I'm an open minded person, but I go where the evidence points to - and with all due respect, its not towards what you're cooking.
    
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