apotheotic (she/her)

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  • Biological sex is far more complicated than small and large gametes. You can choose (somewhat arbitrarily) to define biological sex by one or more of

    • chromosomal sex (which has a variety of variations beyond just xx and xy, so you’re fucked for choosing a binary here)
    • hormonal sex (which has a variety of variations beyond just “male hormones” and “female hormones”, so you’re fucked for choosing a binary here)
    • reproductive sex (which is gonna leave you defining a lot of people quite incorrectly compared to the other criteria listed)
    • how receptive their cells are to particular hormones (which will vary wildly from person to person, so good luck shoving this into a binary)

    The only people who think biological sex is a simple categorisation are people who don’t fully understand the biology of sex.