"Intersex" is an umbrella term for a set of specific developmental variations affecting either males or females. A tiny number (<10/ yr in UK) of babies are born w conditions where their sex is truly ambiguous even after careful medical examination: this is when sex is 'assigned'
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Replying to @MForstater @leusavage
To suggest that people w "intersex" conditions are not males or females but a third sex (or hermaphodites!), or that some people are 'more male', or 'more female' than others is both inaccurate and offensive. There are two sexes. Gender identity is a different question
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Replying to @leusavage @MRKHvoice
You still haven't said what is inaccurate or offensive about stating that humans are male or female, including most people with intersex conditions. A tiny minority of babies w complex medical condutions have sex assigned. Have you reconsidered the idea of "many exceptions"?
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Replying to @leusavage @MRKHvoice
I'm not sure if we are agreeing, disagreeing or getting confused by words! There are *not* people who are neither male nor female sex. Everyone is either male or female. I.e. it is binary. Athena Swan makes the mistake of calling this gender when what they really mean is sex....
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When Athena SWAN was established it was advance careers of women in STEM because females are underrepresented. The category affected is female people (sex) not people who identify with femininity (gender expression or identity).
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Right, it's expanded its remit. But it still includes womens advancement in HE. And the nature of women has not changed. Women are still disadvantaged as a sex. And sex is still binary.
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