I saw a post get banned. Well I dont wanna be a taboo subject. The more we shut down conversations the more we are ostracized. We shouldnt be so dogmatic. A society where people are free to express unpopular opinions is the one we want to live in. Seriously folks.
If you reduce sex to ONLY gamete production you esssntjally declare castrated males, menopausal females, children, and anyone with complete infertiktiy to be sexless.
Which has the benefit of keeping categorical simplicity, but most people who argue against nuance in the sexing of humans are against either either the two sexes being “yes/no” questions or the human sexs being three categories of “male”, “female”, and “other”.
(And it still obscures the nuance and variation in human gender and sexuality. Nobody’s sexually attracted to gametes.)
It’s the other way around. Categorical simplicity is observed in nature. Gametic sex is the only coherent definition.
Everyone has a sex. Some people don’t produce gametes. Their bodies still contain sexed structures.
Stomping your feet and pretending the exceptions dont exist doesn’t make them not exist.
Nothing in nature is ever absolutely so.
What exceptions exist?
I already listed a bunch. Here are the relevant comments.
https://lemmy.world/comment/23168319
https://lemmy.world/comment/23272499
I’m sure you can find some other examples if you do apply a proper skeptical review of your idea and search out arguments that disagree with you or examples that break your categorization.
I suggest starting with the relevant Wikipedia articles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_differentiation_in_humans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_humans
Those aren’t exceptions. Castrated males, menopausal females, children, and anyone with complete infertility all have a clear sex.
Please read this link, as previously suggested
https://theparadoxinstitute.org/articles/sex-development-charts
Some more reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorders_of_sex_development
Those are variations within the sex binary. Not an exception. You’re confusing sex with phenotype and genotype.
Please apply a proper skeptical review of your idea. I’ve saved you the effort of searching. Here is more:
https://www.gwup.org/skeptiker-artikel/sonstiges/one-reality-two-sexes-and-many-endless-debates/
Dude, you are the one arguing the position that sex is merely gamete production.
My position is merely “it’s complicated and we need to leave space for edge cases.” (I am perfectly fine with male/female being separate yes/no questions or having the sex options be m/f/x)
Linking to a transphobic advocacy site just identifies you as either an embarassed transphobe or a sucker.
I’m relaying what the overwhelming consensus is in the field of biology.
No, you’re repeating a transphobic oversimplification of biology. And resorting to a bad argument from authority when the easy gaps in your simplifications are called out.
I’d ignore you at this point, but I have a macbre curiosity as to if you are yourself a transphobe or if you’re instead just a useful fool for transphobic activism.