• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    5 days ago

    Do you know what gametes I produce, if any? Do you need to know what gametes I might produce in order to conduct this conversation?

    I think I’m managing to convey my meaning to you, and receiving your meaning in return, without knowledge of what’s happening in your abdomen/pelvis.

    Whatever concern you have about the terms “sex”, “binary”, and “immutable”, it isn’t scientific.

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      1 day ago

      It doesn’t matter what I think of you. The reality is that you produce one of two gamete sizes, and that determines your biological sex. This is binary and immutable. If you can’t agree with scientific consensus that’s fine, just be honest.

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        14 hours ago

        It doesn’t matter what I think of you.

        Exactly. Now you’re getting it.

        Until you are trying to produce offspring with them, or providing them with medical treatment, you have precisely zero interest in the sex of another person, let alone a scientific interest.

        The only interests you have in anyone else is social, and the boundaries of social interaction do not extend to gamete production.