There are two sexes…

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Well just that really….I have gay, straight, bi sexual and transsexual friends and absolutely have no problem with that, very much a do what makes you happy person.

Butttt….AIBU to think the world is going a bit mad with all the non-female, cis female and whatever other labels are floating about. I’m a woman and that’s that, you are either biologically a male or biologically a female and I don’t mean that in an insensitive way dress how you like and date who you like but surely we can’t just be inventing different/new sexes and telling straight women they are no longer a woman they are now XYZ?

Ah Wikipedia, that excellent soure of great knowledge 👏

people with DSDs have asked not to be referred to as "intersex".
they have also asked not to be used as examples in arguments regarding gender.

When we are all dead and buried. We are only 1 of 2 sexes. Absolute fact. We are not non binary or a fucking cat.

I'm sick of it and it's beyond insulting to women. I'm perimenopausal and if a man in a dress allegedly feels like he/she/whatever is going through the menopause .... then literally just fuck off. I have not one ounce of time for it.

Feel free to provide an alternative source. I'm happy to be educated :)

Even if you were right (which you're not) you are talking about people with a condition which affects, I believe, about 0.018% of the population.

I don't think these people are the ones the OP if referring to ie the ones that put on a wig, call themselves Nancy and try to enter women's spaces and sports competitions

medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001669.htm

For those questioning intersex

The vast majority of us are me or female?
What sex are the rest?

@TastesLikeStrawberriesOnASummerEvening

So what does intersex look like?

1. a clitoris that's larger than expected.
2. a penis that's smaller than expected.
3. no vaginal opening.
4. a penis without a urethra opening at the tip (the opening might instead be on the underside)
5. labia that are closed or otherwise resemble a scrotum.
6. a scrotum that is empty and resembles labia.

www.healthline.com › baby

A chromosome test will identify whether such a child is male or female.

They do at least acknowledge the chromosomes are xy which does make Caster male. It's all just word salad to confuse

Don’t know if you meant to put XYZ as an alternative to XX and XY, but I had a good chuckle at that pun 🙂

Everyone is treated as male or female at birth depending on genitalia etc. If it's not clear then somebody will make an informed judgement. If there's no penis then that judgement is likely to be a tick in the girl/female box.

Later down the line, when puberty should be kicking in, some will prove to have been wrongly called at birth. Medical and social science will give us the tools to deal with it.

My son works with a woman who identifies as a bat. She's also non binary. Who knew bats could be non binary....and work in finance

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/5-alpha-reductase-deficiency/

Ah bless woke wiki. 5 alpha reductase 2 deficiency is only found in biological males. Caster Semenya has a rare DSD but is not and "intersex woman".

Please can posters use DSD not the I word. NHS uses DSD and it is what people with DSD call themselves.

We all use Downs Syndrome not the M word. It’s only on the 1970s that the medical profession formally changed to Downs Syndrome. No one today would use the M word the same applies to the I word.

Caster Semenya allegedly has DSD 46 XY, this means as every cell in their body has xy cells I.e. male.

I expect this thread to be moved due to the subject matter.

I was just about to say that.
He's a man. He has XY chromosomes.

Sorry viques I quoted your post by mistake, meant to quote the one claiming 3 sexes. Doh 😣

I

Agree

Two sexes only

Full stop

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Yes absolutely right.

I personally know of 2 babies now young adults that were born 'intersex' with ambiguous genitalia. After further investigations it was decided one child had more male characteristics and the other child more female. apparently as many as 1 in 1000 babies are born this way but it is (was) such a taboo that was never spoken about.
lady Colin Campbell was born this way too.
So this is probably what the poster means by some people are born neither male or female.

@Sistanotcista
Please don't tell me that you believe Wikipedia
That incredible source of info that can be edited by...anyone.

I've never posted on a thread like this before but I read a buzzfeed article recently about Sam Smith, who is non-binary. I found it very hard to look at him, a big bloke with facial hair, and understand why he thinks he is no closer to male than I am, a woman who has been through childbirth, periods, lived a life being 5'4 and subconsciously fearing for my safety late at night. I just found it hard to compute. Those things are part of being a woman to me - clearly not exclusively what being a woman involves, just some examples of many - and the opposite of that is being a man. I am really trying to question my internal biases but then I start questioning if I should or not.

Oh gawd.

@FOJN - thank you; that is very interesting