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video on how "biological sex" is a social construct (youtu.be)

submitted 3 months ago by rosethornRangerTTV to c/lgbtq_plus

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alt-text for thumbnail: The words: ""biological" sex is the gender binary" on a 2d digital art wooden background next to the non-binary flag

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[–] thief_of_names 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorders_of_sex_development

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190741/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mostly-male-woman-gives-birth-to-twins-in-medical-miracle-10033528.html

Biological sex is not binary, and the purpose of women isn't just squeezing children out. I called your logic terfy because your talking points are eerily similar to theirs.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

None of your articles are really making an argument against my statement. The second two are super interesting though.

doctors in India were able to help the woman conceive and give birth to the children through treatment that helped develop her uterus, which was described as infantile.

She was then treated via IVF. The NCBI study is a little dense so I didn’t read all of it, but it pretty clearly describes a woman, albeit with genetic abnormalities, giving birth. Sooo…. Not sure what the statement there is.

[–] thief_of_names 4 points 2 months ago

Your issue is you have two boxes, female and male, when intersex conditions are the result of sex being a spectrum. Intersex conditions can happen in a multitude of ways, and many are not very outwardly detectable.

Masulinization and feminization is a complicated and messy process which results in people with sexual characteristics outside the binary, and sometimes this means that people are born infertile or less fertile, which invalidates your point. Biologically it's asinine to say that bio sex is binary.

You say if someone belongs to the sex which can have babies then they are biologically women. How do you define if someone belongs to the sex which can have babies? Your definition doesn't describe this, you just arbitrarily put someone into the woman box.