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Chris Baumgarten's avatar

Thanks for this very insightful piece.

Had to smile when you paraphrased the "sex is so complicated" stance many people have. I'm no biologist nor any other kind of natural scientist, but I seem to recall that just about every part of our body is rather complicated, which of course goes for most animals or plants as well. It just baffles me that people only notice when it comes down to biological sex, because it's come to be so ideologically charged.

Our digestive system is no less complicated nor any less complex than our genitalia, if anything, it is even more so and by far, and we see a far greater variety in functionality - or dysfunctionality - than we see with sex. (Just think about how many genetic or otherwise innate conditions concerning digestion and metabolism there are and how common they are compared to DSDs.) Strangely, I do not recall anyone who has anything to say that we can't really say anything about humans' digestive systems and that we may thus as well abolish all dietary guides. Somehow, that never happens.

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Andrew Denis's avatar

Thank you for this very good post. Great read - I loved it. Important to expose the wilful ignorance of gender ideologists. I had a futile discussion with a prof of gender studies on Facebook who dismissed Dawkins as lacking expertise. She argued that science had moved on since I went to school, but - of course - was unable to support the claim. She wanted to use DSDs to argue against sex being binary. Alas, all her examples were still either male or female.

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