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Intersex people are male or female. Male/female comes down to gametes and intersex does not somehow prove that biological sex is a spectrum.
by rm8x 5y ago
Intersex people are male or female. Male/female comes down to gametes and intersex does not somehow prove that biological sex is a spectrum.
- brandmeyer 5y ago"rare" doesn't mean "never". Caster Semenya is an Olympic candidate who is getting disqualified from some women's racing events because she is intersex and has just a little bit too much biological masculinity to compete as a woman.
- pseudalopex 5y agoSome people don't produce gametes.
- bloak 5y agoSee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex I don't think anyone's claiming that "biological sex is a spectrum", but some people "do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies". Some are born with ambiguous external genitalia, but there are also people who look completely female while having male (XY) chromosomes. Since various distinct medical conditions are involved, it doesn't make sense to call it a "spectrum" even from a medical point of view.
- pseudalopex 5y agoSpectrum doesn't mean 1 dimensional.
- kube-system 5y agoThe scope of the biological study of sex is, in fact, broader than the presence of a Y chromosome.