tahira @ tahira @hilariouschaos.com Posts 5Comments 29Joined 5 days ago
Here's the great thing about science: Is he wrong? If you can't cite or explain how he's wrong, hurling insults doesn't do shit.
He very much represents the scientific consensus, as explained by the link I just gave you that you clearly didn't read.
If women want gendered sports, you'll agree that men shouldn't be allowed into women's sports, even if they're trans women?
Biological sex is defined by the size of the gametes one does or would produce, and has always been defined that way scientifically. It is immutable and binary.
What size gametes do they produce? Intersex people are not a monolith, nor do they have anything to do with transgenderism.
Read the article. The author has a PhD in evolutionary biology and knows more than you.
The “sex binary” does not entail that every human is unambiguously either male or female, even though the vast majority are.
He wrote another article where he cites that you are 100% wrong and this definition has been used since the 19th century: https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/citations-for-the-gamete-based-definition
Will men stay out of women's sports?
None of that is how sex is defined, and that's the entire point of this article. Sex is defined by the size of gametes you produce, and that is binary and immutable.
Other compositions than the typical XX and XY arrangement do not represent additional sexes beyond male and female, but instead represent chromosomal variation within each of the two sexes.
Literally the quote I pasted above. Variations within a sex.
So men will stay out of women's spaces then, right?
When biologists claim that “sex is binary,” they mean something straightforward: there are only two sexes. [..] Because there is no third gamete type, there are only two sexes that a person can be. Sex is therefore binary.
Besides, our society is not currently experiencing a sudden dramatic surge in people stricken with ambiguous genitalia; we are experiencing a surge in people who are unambiguously one sex claiming to “identify” as the opposite sex, or neither sex.
Other compositions than the typical XX and XY arrangement do not represent additional sexes beyond male and female, but instead represent chromosomal variation within each of the two sexes.
Liberals need to snap back to reality and drop the gender religion crap that cost them the election. Sex is binary and immutable. Trans women are men. Surgery and hormones won't change that.
However, no matter how sex is developmentally determined for an individual, their sex is always defined the same way—by the type of gamete they do or would produce.
The sex binary is based solely on the binary distinction between sperm and ova, a distinction the authors of this paper fully understand (whether or not they’d ever admit it) because of how they use the words male and female throughout the paper as something totally distinct from genes, hormones, and genitalia.
Lemmy doesn't want to admit that gender woo is an unscientific religion just like the faiths they readily scoff at.