What’s also fucking stupid about the claim that intersex people prove that sex is non-binary, is that they do just the opposite.
Intersex people have physical characteristics from BOTH sexes. Why are we using the word ‘both’? Because there are two of them. Biological sex is a reproductive phenomenon; all of the bits and pieces are related to the function of getting two gametes together.
I know you’re gay, and I’m not in any way making a normative value statement about what SHOULD happen, but an observation about what DOES happen in reproduction. Just want to be super-clear on that.
It’s not like intersex people are a third sex, who somehow participate in a tripartite reproductive process. The whole of reproduction is based on two gametes and intersex people have bits involved in some way in facilitating the meting of BOTH of them.
Sex could not be more binary, and intersex people demonstrate that.
Great piece.
What’s also fucking stupid about the claim that intersex people prove that sex is non-binary, is that they do just the opposite.
Intersex people have physical characteristics from BOTH sexes. Why are we using the word ‘both’? Because there are two of them. Biological sex is a reproductive phenomenon; all of the bits and pieces are related to the function of getting two gametes together.
I know you’re gay, and I’m not in any way making a normative value statement about what SHOULD happen, but an observation about what DOES happen in reproduction. Just want to be super-clear on that.
It’s not like intersex people are a third sex, who somehow participate in a tripartite reproductive process. The whole of reproduction is based on two gametes and intersex people have bits involved in some way in facilitating the meting of BOTH of them.
Sex could not be more binary, and intersex people demonstrate that.