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alchemiccolored · 1 day ago

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biting whoever wrote this

HEY GUESS WHAT. THATS JUST WRONG. SEX ISNT CATEGORICAL. there are plenty of people who do fit into the binary categories, but sex, the combination of in-utero development with further effects of puberty that results in physical traits typically according to one's genes, IS NOT AND HAS NEVER BEEN BINARY.

you can *assign* people to one or the other, either by ignoring outliers manually "fixing" them so that they fit into your categories, sure. you can create a two-category system that way, but that explicitly denies the sheer amount of possibility built into sexual reproduction, and life as a whole.

binary sex is a social construct. biology has always been far more complicated than M or F, A or B, Yes or No.

#BITING. KILLING.#GRABBING THEM BY THE NECK AND SHAKING THEM LIKE A DOG TOY #why would you ignore statistical outliers when they make any field so much more interesting!!!!!#apologies if any of this is incorrect i just saw this in my stats homework and got pissed #i say shit #intersex #intersexism #yeah i understand that coding is literally the most binary field of science. but come on you cant just erase nuance like that #especially when you could pick LITERALLY ANYTHING.#like. i dunno. even or odd numbers!! students ages in years! whether or not a basketball is in the air or touching the ground!!#those are all categories without nuance! that ARENT INTERSEXIST!!!

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