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  • flamingos-cant@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    Sex isn’t a “gender orientation” it is really simple biology.

    Gamete size – its really simple.

    Congratulations infertile people, you are now officially sexless.

    • LostXOR@fedia.io
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      That is usually how males and females of a species are differentiated in general: males have the small gamete and females have the large one. (As you said, some individuals may not produce gametes so it only applies in general).

      Of course humans are a lot more complicated. We have a concept of gender which doesn’t necessarily align with biological sex, and many people modify their sex characteristics to match their gender, so applying generalizations blindly gets you nowhere.

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        Indeed, just as gender is a spectrum so is sex. I love when someone says “Its basic biology” because the best response is “and this is intermediate biology”.

        • Skiluros@sh.itjust.works
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          With all due respect, sex is not a spectrum.

          It’s a clearly a binary. Yes, there are many exceptions and edge cases, but they are all based around a universal binary biological structure.

          You don’t have say three distinct sexes required for reproduction outside of sci-fi. It is a binary with some edge cases and variations in how exactly the two parts of the binary interact.