Kinda feels like you dodged the question. I think they were asking you to define what it means to “organize around producing a gamete”, how folks that were never going to produce either fit into that definition, and how you construct sex as a binary despite that.
Edit: looks like powerstuggle is responding to other comments but not this one. I think it is safe to assume they are going for low hanging fruit and trolling rather than actually trying to explain themself.
There aren’t people born with bodies that just have “no concept” of how to produce a gamete, and that’s what I mean our bodies aren’t blank slates. Even if someone doesn’t actually produce gametes, the rest of their body is still structured in a sexed way, because we’re a sexually dimorphic species.
I see what you’re saying. Something like “there are two sets of characteristics and most folks grab from the majority of one or the other. Therefore we can place everyone into one sex or the other.”
I feel like when I first read your comments I took issue with how black and white your words seemed. I still kinda feel that.
Is there some structure that’s presense or lack there of definitely defines sex for every person? If so I think its fair to call sex a binary.
I feel like I’d only be convinced if I could understand what makes the options only 0 or 1 yk? It doesn’t seem to be chromosomes, which is what I was taught growing up. X/Y Chromosomes have more that two ways of existing in humans.
I’ll read through those wiki articles a bit. To me it seems like your saying that there is some kind of structure that has no middle ground in humans. It always only goes one way or the other. No variation. It’s hard for me to picture life doing that. If ya have any more info to point to I’d be down to look at it.
Edit: for example, would Ovotesticular Syndrome be a counter example to sex binary?
Edit: it looks like there is some variation in rare cases with the development of Müllerian ducts. So that doesn’t seem to be a binary.
The structures that unambiguously always define male or female are the structures that produce functional gametes. I interpreted “how folks that were never going to produce either fit into that definition” as asking “If we don’t look at the gonads, what would we use to determine sex”. Those ducts are a very good indicator, but are secondary structures around the gonads. If you wanted to determine sex without looking at gonads, those are one of the primary structures for doing so.
Ovotestes are interesting, but probably not what you’re thinking. They’re not just normal testes and ovaries as one might be lead to believe from the name. They’re exceedingly rare, so have to be examined individually and general statements can’t really be made. You’ll probably find a (semi-)functional gonad from which their sex would be determined, with a sampling of non-functioning tissue from the other sex. You’ll also likely find that the surrounding structures and rest of their body is unambiguously male or female, though again you’d have to look at a specific case.
To bring it around to near the start of this thread, even then, the body isn’t organized around producing no gametes. It’s organized around producing gametes and failing to do so.
Damn that post history do paint a pretty consistent picture. Seems there is only one thing for powerstruggle to talk about lol. Same talking point too with the “organized around producing certain gametes.”
To be fair, I also call out lots of other misinformation, like people trying to say North Korea is great, actually. That just doesn’t get as much activity. In this thread alone I probably doubled my number of comments, but only because so many people tried to argue with me. The user you’re responding to also seems to believe that people they disagree with are trolls, which is not how that works.
Fair, I guess I only looked back two weeks or so. Would you respond to my above comment that talks about Ovotesticular syndrome and variation in müllerian duct development?
Kinda feels like you dodged the question. I think they were asking you to define what it means to “organize around producing a gamete”, how folks that were never going to produce either fit into that definition, and how you construct sex as a binary despite that.
Edit: looks like powerstuggle is responding to other comments but not this one. I think it is safe to assume they are going for low hanging fruit and trolling rather than actually trying to explain themself.Sorry, you’re down in the list of comments in my inbox. They’d look for structures like these for diagnosis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramesonephric_duct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesonephric_duct
There aren’t people born with bodies that just have “no concept” of how to produce a gamete, and that’s what I mean our bodies aren’t blank slates. Even if someone doesn’t actually produce gametes, the rest of their body is still structured in a sexed way, because we’re a sexually dimorphic species.
I see what you’re saying. Something like “there are two sets of characteristics and most folks grab from the majority of one or the other. Therefore we can place everyone into one sex or the other.”
I feel like when I first read your comments I took issue with how black and white your words seemed. I still kinda feel that.
Is there some structure that’s presense or lack there of definitely defines sex for every person? If so I think its fair to call sex a binary.
I feel like I’d only be convinced if I could understand what makes the options only 0 or 1 yk? It doesn’t seem to be chromosomes, which is what I was taught growing up. X/Y Chromosomes have more that two ways of existing in humans.
I’ll read through those wiki articles a bit. To me it seems like your saying that there is some kind of structure that has no middle ground in humans. It always only goes one way or the other. No variation. It’s hard for me to picture life doing that. If ya have any more info to point to I’d be down to look at it.
Edit: for example, would Ovotesticular Syndrome be a counter example to sex binary?
Edit: it looks like there is some variation in rare cases with the development of Müllerian ducts. So that doesn’t seem to be a binary.
The structures that unambiguously always define male or female are the structures that produce functional gametes. I interpreted “how folks that were never going to produce either fit into that definition” as asking “If we don’t look at the gonads, what would we use to determine sex”. Those ducts are a very good indicator, but are secondary structures around the gonads. If you wanted to determine sex without looking at gonads, those are one of the primary structures for doing so.
Ovotestes are interesting, but probably not what you’re thinking. They’re not just normal testes and ovaries as one might be lead to believe from the name. They’re exceedingly rare, so have to be examined individually and general statements can’t really be made. You’ll probably find a (semi-)functional gonad from which their sex would be determined, with a sampling of non-functioning tissue from the other sex. You’ll also likely find that the surrounding structures and rest of their body is unambiguously male or female, though again you’d have to look at a specific case.
To bring it around to near the start of this thread, even then, the body isn’t organized around producing no gametes. It’s organized around producing gametes and failing to do so.
Powerstruggle just trolls trans supportive posts for hours on end, judging by post history.
You’re trying to reason with a bigot.
Damn that post history do paint a pretty consistent picture. Seems there is only one thing for powerstruggle to talk about lol. Same talking point too with the “organized around producing certain gametes.”
Thanks for pointing that out.
To be fair, I also call out lots of other misinformation, like people trying to say North Korea is great, actually. That just doesn’t get as much activity. In this thread alone I probably doubled my number of comments, but only because so many people tried to argue with me. The user you’re responding to also seems to believe that people they disagree with are trolls, which is not how that works.
Fair, I guess I only looked back two weeks or so. Would you respond to my above comment that talks about Ovotesticular syndrome and variation in müllerian duct development?
You’re an anti trans troll. It’s what you do. Trump’s talking points lived out online.