[avianlyric]

Sex and gender are different things. Neither is easily defined in a strict unambiguous manner, despite what we might be taught in high school biology.

To be clear, this isn’t a political view point, it’s a scientific view point, there’s no singularly accepted way of defining sex in human. Unfortunately nature has this amazing ability to conjure up exceptions to every seemingly reasonable definition of male/female, and it doesn’t give two shits about our desire to arrange the world into neat little categories.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/gender-benders-and-s...

[zepto]

Sex is almost always unambiguously defined, despite there being exceptions. There is no problem with having biological categories. It is not controversial in science that humans are a sexually dimorphic species.

To claim otherwise is definitely political.

Gender is entirely more complex social phenomenon and indeed isn’t directly related to sexual dimorphism, and evolving gender politics are totally legitimate.

Pretending humans aren’t sexually dimorphic isn’t.

[avianlyric]

I agree in the vast majority of individuals sex is clear cut and unambiguous. It’s also clear that humans are sexually dimorphic.

However that doesn’t mean that ambiguity in sex doesn’t exist, and that sexual ambiguous in individuals is impossible. Sexual ambiguity isn’t common, but equally it doesn’t represent an aberration or break some natural law.

So I take issue with the idea that determining sex is universally trivial, and those that dismiss real cases of sexual ambiguity as political correctness gone wrong. Its just that sometimes people are born who don’t fit neatly into commonly held categories, it doesn’t make them special, it just means they’re unique on axis that most people aren’t. Most of the time that nothing more than an interesting observation, but sometimes these people need help to understand how they fit in a world that culturally assumes they don’t exist.

[zepto]

> but equally it doesn’t represent an aberration or break some natural law.

The comment you are replying to never said it does.

> So I take issue with the idea that determining sex is universally trivial

the comment you are replying to never said this.

> sometimes these people need help to understand how they fit in a world that culturally assumes they don’t exist.

The comment you are replying to doesn’t dispute this.

It’s not clear how what you have written relates to the comment you are replying to.

[avianlyric]

I’m clarifying my position. Take it as you wish.

[zepto]

Doesn’t seem to have worked as a clarification since it isn’t a reply to what was written.