boypartridgeinapeartree

when referring 2 sciency bullshit can we all just start using genitals to categorize things instead of “”“”sex”“”“”“”“”

please, thank

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sockpuppetdynasty

but… I think that’s sort of what sex is, when compared to gender? unless you mean in terms of literal different genitalia/medical discrepancies?

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impostoradult

Actually the problem with “sex” is that it conflates a bunch of different bodily features that can occur in multiple combinations. So for example, people with penises can also have uteruses. This is rare, but it does occur. “Sex” conflates

- external genital formation
- Internal reproductive formation
- reproductive viability/capacity
- hormones
- chromosomes
secondary sex characteristics

The idea that there are only two naturally occurring combinations of these things is inaccurate and actually impedes the ability of doctors to give good medical care. Gender activists have argued that instead of using the broad, crude categories “male”/”female” medical practitioners should ask more specific questions such as “do you menstruate”, “do you have a penis”, etc.

Sex, as you have been discussing it, is not so much a truth about bodies as it is a fictive, heteronormative body-ideal. The way bodies actually manifest sex is more complex than just M or F, and arguably medicine would be practiced better were it not tied down to these categories.

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