What is it with conservatives and this "there are only two sexes" nonsense... Are they trying to convince us they arent any smarter than a grade schooler or something. Anyone who has had more than an elementary school education knows full well its not that simple...
@freemo it is that simple unless you list deformities and birth defects. I was ok with separating gender and sex but now this shit is getting ridiculous.
@yarra @freemo if some one wants to wear a dress or live with their genital deformities or odd chromosome combinations I dont give a shit but sex, sexual reproduction, functional sexs as in reproducing male and female. Like it doesn’t even have to do with their personal lives as outliers ita just fucking weird like why deny that one person has a peepee and one person has a vagene and one cooms in the other to make baby. Why is this a war crime to these people?
So the first thing to understand is that the intersex spectrum falls on a pretty wide set of variations and can manifest in different ways.
One simple manifestation is that a person can appear male or female yet internally have the other sex's physical components. For example a man can have ovarian tissue where his testicles would be (and they would feel and look like testicles) and a woman can have testicales where her ovaries should be. In fact its even more complex than that, a person can have what medical profesionalls call "ovotesties" which is tissue that is somewhere between the two and serves the function of each.
Here is a paper that talks about how specific hormones determine the development of the gonad tissue ont hat spectrum and how it can be measured as a non-invasive way to help measure ones natural place on the spectrum.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303720703003277
kleinfelter syndrom is considered to be part of the intersex spectrum. In other words, they have some qualities of males, others of females.
I never claimed there was a third sex either, so clearly your reading skills are as excellent as your biology skills. Intersex does not imply that there are more than 2 sexes, it implies that sex is a spectrum and they can and do fall anywhere on that spectrum from female, to ambiguous/both, to male.
Huh, what do you mean others.. thats like saying "warm doesnt exist because there is only cold and hot".. there arent others, it is a spectrum, there are people who are not clearly one or the other, there are people with both, there are people who are strongly female or strongly male.
Who said anything about a third sex? I have pointed out several times its not about there being a third sex, its about there not being 2 discrete sexes but rather a continuous spectrum of sexes between 2 extremes.
Likewise the existance of ovotestis **is** a spectrum, and I linked a scientific paper that even goes into the expectrum of the ovotestis and one way on measure wear on the spectrum a particular person's ovotestis happen to be.
This should be obvious as it has tissue with properties of each end of the spectrum and can develop closer to one end or the other to any degree at all on that spectrum.
No your confusing the act of sex, with the sex of the organism engaging in it.. The act of sex does not define the sex of the organism engaged in it.. your trying to warp the actual science behind how animals are sexed with your own biases, and it doesnt match the reality.
Infertile women, for example are still women, they can not produce children, have no gametes to speak of, but are women because, quite simply, sex is not determines strictly by your gametes but by a whole list of features. Those features are not an "all or nothing" deal and thus sex, while generally favoring one end of the spectrum or the other, is still quite clearly on a spectrum.
looks like someone needs to open up a medical dictionary. They are defined by their reproductive organs and the function (expression) of their genetics, which entails a rather long complicated list of what constitutes function in any one species.
You will never find any medical dictionary defining sex **solely** on the basis of gametes, in fact you likely wont even find the word games in the definition in most medical dictionaries.
One sec let me get mind and find their exact wording.
Yup as expected the medical dictionary says pretty much exactly what I just said, that sex is defined by ones reproductive organs (not the gametes) and ones function. The exact wording is as follows:
" Either of the two divisions, designated female and male, by which most organisms are classified on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions"
-- The American Heritage Medical Dictionary
@freemo @georgia @yarra untag ME REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe
you are an unpleasent fucking retard that enjoys sniffing their own farts, you just endless go “READ A BOOK” “YOU ARE GRADE SCHOOLERS”
you purposefully presented this entire thing as bait, not expressing your actual thought, you could of just posted “i read this cool paper about sexual dimorphism and spectrums” but no you presented your argument in this retarded way then acted like it was your argument and some sort of “duh common knowledge man stop being grade schoolers”
you are a fucking weird egotistical dishonest faggot and your very presence is uncomfortable and reeks of future serial killer.
It is such an obvious fact it really doesnt need to be expressed as anything more than common sense or accepted science... I entierly expect the few morons who cant see past their nose will come out of the wood work.. thats not who the post is for, but it does serve my purpose to know who are the morons who arent worth giving attention to in future conversations and who are bright enough to have valuable input on future discussions..
gotta throw a goose egg out from time to time to weed out the idiots and keep the timeline clean.
@freemo @yarra show me asexual reproduction of humans. Show me a self impregnating hermaphrodite.