Its not a judgement. Biology observes more than just 2 sexes, and some species can change biological sex naturally. Its determined by more than just X/Y chromosomes (hormones etc are in play). So even in biology, sex is a fluid spectrum
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Replying to @DanielleFong @bensima
All of this is sophistry. Humans have two sexes, and sometimes people are born deformed. Social science that purports to study gender empirically is not descriptive, it is prescriptive. The null hypothesis is defined by bureaucrats and lobbyists, and science simply obeys
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Moreover, if gender is a social construct then so is transgender, and quite a recent one.
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Replying to @0x49fa98 @DanielleFong
okay let's try specifying the concepts more precisely because your retort is confused. sexuality is a set of biologically-constructed categories primarily related to reproductive patterns, and is neither static nor binary (as nothing in biology is)
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gender is a set of socially-constructed categories related to how people organize themselves in society. its up to the society to determine its form (static/fluid, binary/trinary/otherwise). however you'd be hard pressed to find truly static/binary gender categories in history
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Replying to @bensima @DanielleFong
Not interested in your priestly pontificating. You types always do the same thing. You conflate the categories you construct with a prescription for how the world ought to work. Yes, there have always been some edge cases on what constitutes “man”, “woman”, “male”, “female”
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But until extremely recently we were quite happy to define these categories in terms of a binary, and ultimately, both are prescriptive. You cannot use “science” to make normative claims about this, it comes down to power
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No, _your_ aim is to oppress and hurt people, to deprive them of the right to a non western non neoliberal community and culture. You're a cultural imperialist w/ heavies like Paul Singer and his culture capital oppression behind you. You won't win a prize: you'll lose your soul
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