powerstruggle
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- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 19 minutes ago:
People’s bodies are still organized around the production of either sperm or ova, even if they’re unable to reproduce due to a developmental issue. You can call that a third category if it’s useful to you, but that doesn’t form a third sex as understood by biologists.
Intersex is a confusing term, and doesn’t dispute the binary. People are still male or female, with en.wikipedia.org/…/Disorders_of_sex_development
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 28 minutes 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.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 12 hours 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.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 13 hours 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:
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.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 14 hours ago:
I think we agree. Maybe I was misreading the above comment, but I was just clarifying that “transform” in that sense for chickens is not actually changing sex, and so is a different situation than clownfish.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 17 hours ago:
I’m not aware of that being an actual change in sex. The hen can develop male characteristics, but won’t produce functional sperm.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 18 hours ago:
Male seahorse get pregnant, but that doesn’t make them trans, they’re unambiguously male. This is a great example of why sex is defined by gamete size. If it weren’t, we couldn’t talk about males and females in any useful way across the animal kingdom.
Clownfish would be a better example as they’re sequential hermaphrodites, but that doesn’t have any bearing on the human sex binary.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 6 days ago:
People can’t live their lives because a meme is wrong?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 6 days ago:
Do you understand that those charts don’t each represent a different sex?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Do you understand that those charts don’t each represent a different sex?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Do you understand that those charts don’t each represent a different sex?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Do you understand that those charts don’t each represent a different sex?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Do you understand that those charts don’t each represent a different sex?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Do you understand that those charts don’t each represent a different sex?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Do you need help understanding?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Every accusation is a confession, eh?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Do you need help understanding?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Every accusation is a confession, eh?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
I didn’t slap anything on anything. Do you understand that those charts don’t each represent a different sex?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
So you don’t understand? Would you like simpler words?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
I’m correcting the meme, because it’s wrong. Why do you think that’s not letting people live their lives?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
So you don’t understand? Would you like simpler words?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
You’re again confusing sex and gender. I am merely stating a widely recognized scientific fact that the original meme is incorrect about.
I would love nothing more than for this entire thread to have not happened. The response to my original comment should have been “Yep, that’s true for sex, thanks for differentiating it from gender”
If you can’t handle the truth, that’s on you.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
So you think science is anti trans?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Your pick
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Why do you think posting about scientific truth is attacking trans people?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
So you don’t understand? Would you like simpler words?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
They’re disentangled already, but before clarifying how you’re wrong, let’s make sure you understand. Can you affirm you understand that those don’t each represent a different sex?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Every accusation is a confession, eh?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 week ago:
Do you need help understanding?