Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness

• BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How so? Biological sex is a quantifiable fact. Every sexually reproducing species on the planet has two sexes, easily identified by gamete size - males have smaller gametes and females have larger gametes.

  I don’t wanna start a flame war, but the science om this is sound. Sure, in science, nothing is absolute, but there’s never been any evidence of more than two sexes.

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  • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Biological sex is far more complicated than small and large gametes. You can choose (somewhat arbitrarily) to define biological sex by one or more of

    • chromosomal sex (which has a variety of variations beyond just xx and xy, so you’re fucked for choosing a binary here)
    • hormonal sex (which has a variety of variations beyond just “male hormones” and “female hormones”, so you’re fucked for choosing a binary here)
    • reproductive sex (which is gonna leave you defining a lot of people quite incorrectly compared to the other criteria listed)
    • how receptive their cells are to particular hormones (which will vary wildly from person to person, so good luck shoving this into a binary)

    The only people who think biological sex is a simple categorisation are people who don’t fully understand the biology of sex.

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    • BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Man, I thought I’d found my people in this community, but my perfectly civil comment discussing scientific definitions of ‘sex’ was removed. That shows that this is likely just another echo chamber that can’t abide civil conversation around scientific facts when said facts make people feel icky.

      The worst part is I’m on your side. I’m all in on inclusivity and representation. I’m trans. I’m bisexual. I’m just open-minded, seemingly unlike whichever mod removed my comment.

      You, apotheotic, seem civil enough. I was looking forward to discussing biological sex with you, maybe expanding my understanding in the process, but it’s not worth trying to have a conversation if I have to worry about my responses being unceremoniously removed. For what it’s worth, your reply has inspired me to do some more reading on the subject.

      Reddit mod practices seem to have bled into every corner of Lemmy. Community: blocked. Good riddance.

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      • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think it may have been removed because it was a misrepresentation of fact.

        In case you still want to understand, here’s a good place to start:

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