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Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional (theconversation.com)

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[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

I remember having an argument about this on Lemmy lol.

Trying to explain to the user that kept using the "organized around producing large/small gametes" definition that there is no "supposed to" in biology. It either happens or it doesn't. It doesn't matter if you have a penis, testes and went through an androgenic puberty. It is unfortunate if you wanted kids (and that's why we use the word "suposed to". To explain why it doesn't work), but that doesn't meant that your body was "supposed to" produce small gametes.