Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic
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#2This is a fascinating article, and stands on its own merits. Go read it.
The point I'd like to make though is that sometimes we use science to justify intolerance, and time and again the science has caught up with what people have reported as their own life experience.
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#3The similar magnitudes of intra- and inter-sex differences are the best argument against sexism.
This seems more true for behaviour than it does for physiology, but findings like those in the article make it harder to draw even that distinction.
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#4The similar magnitudes of intra- and inter-sex differences are the best argument against sexism. This seems more true for behaviour than it does for physiology, but findings like those in the article make it harder to draw even that distinction.
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Re: Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic
#5This is a fascinating article, and stands on its own merits. Go read it. The point I'd like to make though is that sometimes we use science to justify intolerance, and time and again the science has caught up with what people have reported as their own life experience.
> time and again the science has caught up with what people have reported as their own life experience.
The problem is that most people's life experiences seemingly justify intolerance, in the sense that most people's experiences of most things are fairly typical. It's a serious epistemological problem with science, and is one of the major reasons why using science alone to create legislation is problematic.
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#6Hacker News 2015
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#8"Some researchers now say that as many as 1 person in 100 has some form of [atypical sex]."
If the "simplistic" male/female binary explains >99% of observations, there does not seem to be a strong case for describing biological sex as a "spectrum"...
I am 10,000% behind tolerance and acceptance for people of all genders and sexes and orientations, and it's very useful to understand how much biological complexity and variation is possible. But... any honest interpretation of the data would suggest that "the idea of two sexes" is an highly accurate approximation for Homo sapiens.
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#10"Some researchers now say that as many as 1 person in 100 has some form of [atypical sex]." If the "simplistic" male/female binary explains >99% of observations, there does not seem to be a strong case for describing biological sex as a "spectrum"... I am 10,000% behind tolerance and acceptance for people of all genders and sexes and orientations, and it's very useful to understand how much biological complexity and…
> If the "simplistic" male/female binary explains >99% of observations, there does not seem to be a strong case for describing biological sex as a "spectrum"...
1% of the world population is nearly 70 million people. That is not a small population. One would hope that we might be more flexible in our descriptions considering how large of a population that is.