Reality is reality, just as A is A. And the reality is that human beings are a sexually dimorphic species with two sexes with both physical and actually physiological differences, some acute and some statistically obvious. There is no “spectrum”. There is no “gender identity” with any objective reality to it that is separate and distinct from biological sex. People insisting that a biological male can get periods if he identifies as a girl, that cancer works differently based on your gender identity, or that chromosomes magically change as if will alone can bend reality—are all science deniers and have rejected what people have seen clearly since time immemorial.
There are two ways to approach this. The first is to do what people did before science informed us of sex determining chromosomes: Recognize the obvious. There were people with female genitalia who could get pregnant and give birth to a baby that they could nurse (Women) and there were those with male genitalia who could couple their genitalia with those women and impregnate them (Men). People recognized obvious differences in physical form, as well as how men tended to be bigger and stronger than women, while women showed many other actual physiological differences with men when it came to abilities and how they acted. Even then, people recognized that not everyone with female genitalia would be fertile or ever give birth, just as there were males who couldn’t impregnate a female. Nonetheless, “boys have a penis; girls have a vagina” as Kindergarten Cop explained to us.
The other approach is the strictly scientific one.
“In humans, as in most animals or plants, an organism’s biological sex corresponds to one of two distinct types of reproductive anatomy that develop for the production of small or large sex cells—sperm and eggs, respectively—and associated biological functions in sexual reproduction. In humans, reproductive anatomy is unambiguously male or female at birth more than 99.98% of the time. The evolutionary function of these two anatomies is to aid in reproduction via the fusion of sperm and ova. No third type of sex cell exists in humans, and therefore there is no sex ‘spectrum’ or additional sexes beyond male and female. Sex is binary.”
Note, that caveat that is not inconsistent with the purely observational delineation of the sexes between male and female: Specifically that there are actual bona fide cases where a person does not develop in accordance with their chromosomes. As your humble author has previously noted: “there are abnormal cases of non ‘XX’ or ‘XY’ chromosome pairings (e.g. XO, XXY), or of a body developing in utero contra to chromosomes, but those are rare and not indicative of a ‘social norm’ of recognizing that the vast majority of people are indeed women or men, a fact confirmed by not only our entire history as a species, but of practically every other mammalian species in existence.”
In other words, the exception proves the rule, in both senses of the word “prove”.
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