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@freemo @Agni @yarra @a7 sex is a binary. the difference between asexual and sexual reproduction is reproduction by two unalike organisms--anisogamy. male and female. i think what you're saying is human dimorphic sex features, and in the case of ovotestis human gonads, very occasionally exhibit features of both dyadic sexes, but such edge cases usually end up being infertile. if what you're saying is "disorders of sex development exist, pheno and genotypic anomalies exist" then no one disagrees. it ultimately boils down to a semantic argument of what "sex" and "spectrum" mean. which is no fun.
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@SwampWitchHerbalist @freemo @a7 he has capital letters after his name, how dare you use mundane common sense
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@freemo @yarra @a7 i'm not talking about coitus. i'm talking about the fusion of unalike gametes. medical dictionaries will naturally have an anatomical take rather than a broader one. which is, of course, that sex refers to gametes. if sex didn't refer to gametes, and just genitals, then it wouldn't be meaningful to call plants male and female. it is possible to have dimorphic gametes without dimorphic sexes, but not vise versa.
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