I expect there are a plethora of variations and complicated individual cases that occur at different frequencies with organs, chromosomes, development patterns, hormones etc. What is it that you would like to conclude from this?
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Replying to @_alice_evans @rws1st
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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Replying to @MForstater @rws1st
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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Replying to @_alice_evans @rws1st
Right, but I don't think that means we would describe sex as a 'spectrum' - rather than a binary i. e. Spectrum is continuous variation along a scale between two extremes (like height)
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Replying to @_alice_evans @rws1st
Infertile men are not on a spectrum somewhere between being men & women though (& vice versa). I don't think the fact of infertility, intersex conditions or other birth 'defects' mean that ppl who say they are gay, lesbian, straight etc..have fallen for a falsehood
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I dont think it works like that! Humanbeings (animals in general) are v good at noticing (instinctively & quickly) the sex of adults in their species (which generally corresponds to xx/xy) w/out tests. Ppl are attracted to who we are attracted to. Then we apply words, definitions
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