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Mystic Mushroom [Ze/Zir]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Trans@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 2 days ago

Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional

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Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional

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Mystic Mushroom [Ze/Zir]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Trans@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 2 days ago
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Each person is a mosaic of sex-related and postpubertal biological traits that vary in their degree of femaleness and maleness.
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  • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I’ve just started flat out saying “trans women are biologically female.” I’m done giving ground on this.

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      Yeah, living in the UK with the terfs and the courts throwing around the term “biological woman” like what the fuck do you mean? We shouldn’t give them a fucking inch on this stuff.

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    Filthy flatlanders cannot even begin to comprehend my Multidimensional Gender™

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    Like everything in nature, almost nothing is binary and very few things are affected by only one factor.

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      We’re all just a bunch of overlapping bell curves.

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