[Caption: A Facebook post from a person named Grace Ann.
I just commented this on a transphobic post that was all like, “In a sexual species, females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and a Y, I’m not a bigot it’s just science, waaah waah.” But then I was kinda proud of it so I decided to share.
First of all, in a sexual species, you can have females be XX and males be X (insects), you can have females be ZW and males be ZZ (birds), you can have females be females because they developed in a warm environment and males be males because they developed in a cool environment (reptiles), you can have females be females because they lost a penis sword fighting contest (some flatworms), you can have males be males because they were born female, but changed sexes because the only male in their group died (parrotfish and clownfish), you can have males look and act like females because they are trying to get close enough to actual females to mate with them (cuttlefish, bluegills, others), or you can be one of thousands of sexes (slime mold, some mushrooms.) Oh, did you mean humans? Oh ok then. You can be male because you were born female, but you have 5-alphareductase deficiency and so you grew a penis at age 12. You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but you are insensitive to androgens, and so you have a female body. You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but your Y is missing the SRY gene, and so you have a female body. You can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but one of your X’s HAS an SRY gene, and so you have a male body. You can be male because you have two X chromosomes- but also a Y. You can be female because you have only one X chromosome at all. And you can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but your heart and brain are male. And vice – effing – versa. Don’t use science to justify your bigotry. The world is way too weird for that shit.]
P.S. TERFs, don’t bother. You’ll get no response, just a block.
Sex is a binary. This is not a debate. Human beings have XY chromosomes, anything else is an extremely rare mutation. For sex to be a spectrum, such as is implied here, mutations like those listed above would need to be exceedingly common. An exception to a rule does not mean a spectrum. This does not justify things such as nonbinary genders. There is no biological evidence for it. Nonbinary gender dysphoria is not a thing. Sex is not a spectrum. Stop.
@wtf-fishbones Baby, it’s about to be 2018 and here you are, pretending you understand more than the professional scientists who wrote the articles and performed the studies explained in this Stanford.edu article from 2015 with your grade school biology class. Look at your life, look at your choices.
Sex is weird. Sex is confusing. No one has all the answers. But if gender or sex are determined by what’s located in your pants/skirts, instead of what’s in your heart and head. Then this world is too weird for me.
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