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Isn't gamete also only one aspect of what constitutes the sex? What do you do of the sexual phenotype for example? See this article about a multimodal modelisation of sex. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.26.525769v1.full.pdf
But that’s obviously the people trying to redefine sex to not be using the gametes.
Look y’all I know nothing about biology but I’ve heard enough definitions of sex to know that there isn’t a clear consensus on one, binary or not. I do know that if you want to wellactually a binary definition into this you might be part of the problem. (Unless, that is, it’s interesting enough and you phrase it differently idk.)
It's not binary. Anyone not accepting this needs to stop talking about biology because it is clearly not rheir field
Consider some of those people are trying to do that for rational reasons and check the article as an example of such reasons.
I think I agree with you and my irony just got lost. But again, I don’t know enough to be sure.
All I’m sure about is that if you use your biological non-consensus to tell folks what their identity should be it’s shitty.
And I think we were arguing the same thing but I’m tired.