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Biologists take on sex seen in fab

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exmouse · 12/01/2020 09:31

twitter.com/rebeccarhelm/status/1207834357639139328?s=21

Seen this floating about on fb
Any thoughts?

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Igneococcus · 12/01/2020 09:52

Why is she talking about kelp wrt gametes?
Humans aren't even in the same phylogenetic kingdom as kelp.

Datun · 12/01/2020 09:50

All very interesting. But the proposed law changes are not based on, or driven by, people with DSDs, they're based on people without DSDs.

It would be a refreshing change to see as many column inches devoted to autogynephilia.

NotBadConsidering · 12/01/2020 09:46

It’s

  1. patronising and
  2. bullshit

They’re talking about the times things go wrong, deviations from the norm. It doesn’t mean sex is complicated, it just means it can go wrong, the same as many other things with human beings.

AnyOldPrion · 12/01/2020 09:42

I started reading, but didn’t reach the end. All these threads are designed to make the science sound so complex that credulous people will conclude they don’t understand and that therefore they must take the word of the much cleverer person as truth.

Biological sex existed long before we knew anything about chrosmosome function. Information we gain about chromosomes has largely backed up the observation that there are two sexes. The exact interplay of how chromosomes function and variation withi the two sex groups that sometimes overlap does not affect the simple fact that there are males and females and that for sexual reproduction to occur, one of each of those is required.

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