Biology and development are complicated and human beings are very diverse. We need to think and communicate using simplifying concepts. If binary is oversimplified then biological sex is at the very least strongly bimodal. Heterosexual accurately etc captures this reality.
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Sex is a logical construct
Sex is not a 'spectrum' though - height, skin pigmentation, strength, outgoingness etc.. are spectrums w continuous degrees of variability. Sex is a discrete binary variable M or F, albeit there are rare anomalous intersex conditions
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1 in 5000 women have no or partial vagina , uterus and ovaries. We call this uncommon, not rare.
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(also, that condition isn't intersex). and besides that particular birth 'defect', there are further cases where XX chromosomes don't line up with organisms.
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