No, not really. "Biologically male" organisms do not, as a class, have similar chromosomes, genitalia or ability to give birthhttps://twitter.com/ryancmack/status/814624085812670464 …
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Here's a convenient example: a male seahorse does not have a Y chromosome, does not have phallic genitalia and is the one that lays the eggs
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The actual answer is that in biology the "male" organism is the one whose gametes are smaller and more motile
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Which chromosome arrangement causes this, and how this plays out in terms of how sex works on the macro scale, varies tremendously
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In seahorse sex the female seahorse puts its bigger, heavier gametes -- the eggs -- inside the male's body instead of vice versa
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Which is less common than the reverse, but so what -- for tons of species "sex" happens completely outside the body of both organisms
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What it comes down to is that our use of "biological sex" is based on trying to form a category for all life forms based on human sex
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Trying to define everything as "male" and "female" goes back to our very human assumptions from before "sex" and "gender" were different
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Like, if you really wanted to argue that male seahorses by the older definition of "female" are female you'd have a good case
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It'd be like trying to explain to an ancient person why you, against all common sense, decided that whales aren't actually fish
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I remember a funny story about Gary Larson doing a Far Side comic with a really dumb joke with an anthropomorphic mosquito couple
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Where a mosquito comes home wearing work clothes and tells its mosquito spouse in a housedress it's exhausted from spreading malaria all day
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And Larson got "Actually!"ed constantly -- "Actually! It's the female mosquito that drinks blood in preparation to lay eggs, males do not"
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