I was referring primarily to fascists. If you're pro-bodily autonomy why are you and your ilk against puberty delaying drugs? Why are you against people getting the body they feel comfortable with? Whu do you cling to a provably false belief that sex is binary?
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"ANYTHING could have a big gamete producer and a small gamete producer and NOTHING you think of as the definition of 'male' and 'female' -- being the stronger one or the bigger one or the one that cares more for the offspring -- is consistently associated with one or the other"
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And then the beetle lady went and made it into a whole thing Saying the same thing but taking the EXACT OPPOSITE LESSON from it "The fact that in any anisogamous species there's a big gamete and small gamete maker (by definition) means that THESE ARE UNIVERSAL CATEGORIES"
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Also, hi, linguist here, I'd like to point out that the "official definition" of a word does NOT mean "the only correct way to use this word," but rather "this is how WE are using the word in our specific study" so there will be no confusion with the other ways it is used
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And the great thing about that is it can lead to weird situations, but that's what happens when terms are well defined one way. E.g. for an animal that has one sex deposit its gametes into the other sex, for the second sex to get pregnant, you could say the second is female.
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