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powerstruggle

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  • You're confusing sex determination with sex definition. Those are variations within a sex.

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  • You're probably confusing sex with mating types. Sex is binary because there's exactly two gamete sizes, eggs and sperm. Other species have gametes that are the same size, but those are called mating types and work very differently than sex.

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  • Speaking of projection, you're very good at calling out insults like "anti trans". Is that projection on your part?

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  • Nobody's arguing about gender being a social construct. I 100% agree with that. Sex is very real and not a construct, and what's the point of contention (sadly)

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  • Apologies if I've missed it, I still have a backlog of messages to go through. My best guess at interpreting your question that you mean something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%CE%B1-Reductase_2_deficiency, in which a male has internal testes and is often incorrectly assigned female at birth due to ambiguous external genitalia. Is there another specific DSD you're thinking of?

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  • Sorry, I'm not the one saying that being trans supportive is at odds with scientific consensus. You're the one spouting off transphobia here

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  • Unfortunately that's backwards. Sex is defined by gamete size because it's the only coherent definition across so much of the animal kingdom. As an example, did you know that male seahorses give birth? It's true, but how do we know that they're male? Because they make the smaller of the two gamete sizes. Same thing with female hyenas. They have a pseudo-penis, so why don't we consider them male? Because they produce the larger of two gamete sizes

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  • Unfortunately I mean well. Sometimes people need to hear things they don't really want to hear. I'm sick of seeing people that should know better spout off unscientific nonsense because it makes them feel good. There's too much of that on Lemmy

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  • I think you're misunderstanding how sex is defined. It's very much a binary, but that doesn't include gender, and doesn't include sex phenotypes.

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  • It does feel nice to throw around insults, but maybe a better use of your time would be to learn about why you're wrong

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  • Why do you think being trans supportive means denying basic science? That's awfully transphobic of you

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  • Their bodies are still organized around the production of one or the other of two gamete sizes, even if they don't produce any

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  • I think you're confused about the point of contention here

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  • Turner's syndrome is a chromosomal disorder that only affects females. Her body is organized around the production of the larger of two gamete sizes.

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  • As in the latter. Trump is a fascist cunt who should have been kept from power.

    I don't expect you to believe it, but realizing that biology is real doesn't mean being anti-trans.

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  • You should redirect this energy into learning about how your model of the world is incomplete. You'd benefit much more from that.

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  • Nobody's body is a blank slate. Just because one developmental pathway didn't turn out as expected doesn't mean that it's impossible to determine sex. Their bodies are still organized around producing one or the other of two gamete sizes, hence binary.

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  • Sadly no. I'm leftist, but also not willing to abandon science because it feels nice. Right wingers are right on this like a broken clock is right twice a day and all that. Or that Hitler was a vegetarian, but that doesn't mean that vegetarianism is wrong or bad. Pick your favorite analogy