What are all the reasons you have heard that sex is NOT binary? Funny to serious

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Just doing a little research and thought, if anyone has seen the full range of reasons - it would be all of you!

Because ancient roman times.
Yes, they really said that.

Ewwwww.
After the Supreme Court Judgement, it was, "Give us wombs and gives us titties".
I've luckily missed the clitties one.

It’s a shame there isn’t a hairy boak reaction option

... because sex is a constellation of points.

Cos "intersex is being both sexes" or "sex is very complex"
"HRT (no- X sex hormones) makes me just like you" " HRT changes DNA"
"some women can't get pregnant"
" we all start off female"

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Because the old-fashioned, binary notions of sex reinforce gender stereotypes. After all, people only want to know if their new babies are boys or girls so they can dress them up in blue or pink.

Good lord.

It’s damning this is the least mental suggestion.

Any idea what they mean by bi-modal in this context?

It was said so much by TRAs that there was a video made by the Paradox Institute to refute it.

Yep, I remember that one too. Haven’t heard much from that poster in a while!

Because she'd watched a film about a trans kid and being trans was 'innate' and feelings trump biology 🙄

Someone today was arguing that "sex" meant two different things, one was your reproductive sex and the other was apparently to do with what sex traits you have, so according to them, if you had (fake) boobs, long hair and a high voice (or something) that made you female even if at the same time you could impregnate women and were therefore male... Or something. A new one on me!

Because some men can have an “essence of woman”

I think you could buy that in Boots in the 80s

Huh????

Because none of us can be sure of our chromosomes unless we've taken a DNA test (see DSDs). Also, no one can see your chromosomes, so they're not important in day to day life, but other people can see the effects of hormone treatment, your hairstyle and your clothing choices.

Yep! We had lots of fun with that quote at the time!

But but but ... intersex/sex is on s spectrum/not everyone is either male or female
Ladybrain/pink brains, blue brains
Because I said so.

I missed that one! How is it supposed to work? Or didn't they say?

Sex is assigned at birth and doctors get it wrong sometimes and tick the wrong box

(from mother of identical twins) "The in utero hormone bath may have had a different balance from one twin vs. the other"

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Because…because…it’s actually really complex.

Because they've heard of a bimodal distribution and thank it sounds clever but don't realise you have to actually have something measurable along the x axis

Because binary sex is just a colonialist idea

An extremely intelligent man I knew well on another forum arguing, seriously, that sex was on a spectrum because different people have different levels of sex hormones.

You might as well argue that sex is on a spectrum because some men are shorter than some women!