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I think we may be talking past each other. How does what you're saying relate to the "non binary" concept?
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This is as absolutely true as saying elements within the universe are fundementally binary, an atom is either hydrogen or helium (with the exception of atomic aberrations).
The math is the same, 2% of elements within the universe are other than H or He, and 2% of human births have chromosomal aberrations.
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Sure. This is as absolutely true as saying elements within the universe are fundementally binary, an atom is either hydrogen or helium (with the exception of atomic aberrations). The math is the same, 2% of elements within the universe are other than H or He, and 2% of human births have chromosomal aberrations.
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Sure. This is as absolutely true as saying elements within the universe are fundementally binary, an atom is either hydrogen or helium (with the exception of atomic aberrations). The math is the same, 2% of elements within the universe are other than H or He, and 2% of human births have chromosomal aberrations.
As an aside don’t astronomers call any non H/He element “metal”?
To be clearer (and fair to the context): "Pure" intersex is
conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female", stating the prevalence of intersex is about 0.018%
FWiW I believe there's a bit more to behaviour than pure genetics but it's a hard one to pin down; outside of western society there are many places with a long history for not caring about gender nearly as much as abrahamic westerners seem to; the Bugis, pacific sistergirls, etc.
From a datascience perspective there's a non zero number of actual people in Australia that are born intersex and neither male nor female at birth to warrent a non specific gender entry on passport databases .. as a matter of cold pragmatic fact divorced from any "woke" and|or "culture war" politic posturing.
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How much do you know about reification as it applies to the field of sociology? It might be something worth looking into.
I don’t think your genetic makeup is an abstraction.
I always see discussions on this topic online immediately start discussing how the content of social media is the driver of the mental health issues (comparison to others, everyone projecting their best selves etc). My own experiences with social media and phone addiction leads me to believe its not JUST the content, but also (equally, perhaps moreso) the fact that teenagers AND adults with social media and phone add…
Social media is so much the problem.
When I was a kid, it was video games that were ruining a generation, in my parents generation it was "the devils music" that was turning them into a bunch of degenerates. I wonder what the issues where when Galileo was a kid? They title says "epidemic of teenage mental illness", but do we not discriminate between mental illness and mental health? Where is that line? I'm not suggesting social media doesn't have it's c…
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Not fitting in is not a mental illness. And this attitude is behind the prevalence of many mental illnesses today. We've gone from a society that embraced difference to one that claims to embrace difference while mandating sameness. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc, are all toxic for this reason.
When did society previously embrace difference?