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Is anyone seriously debating that sex isn't binary? Gender being different from sex is not a new concept, from the 2001 IOM report (predating the "gender wars"

Is anyone seriously debating that sex isn't binary? Gender being different from sex is not a new concept, from the 2001 IOM report (predating the "gender wars"): The committee defines sex as the classification of living things, generally as male or female according to their reproductive organs and functions assigned by the chromosomal complement, and gender as a person’s self-representation as male or female, or how that person is responded to by social institutions on the basis of the individual’s gender presen- tation. Gender is shaped by environment and experience. Not much has changed regarding sex from 2001, we've expanded the definition of gender which is clearly much more complicated. http://elibrary.pcu.edu.ph:9000/digi/NA02/2001/10028.pdf http://elibrary.pcu.edu.ph:9000/digi/NA02/2001/10028.pdf

spinach 3y ago
There indeed are many people pushing the idea that sex isn't binary using things like Disorders of Sexual Development (intersex), other species that can change sex like clownfish (pretending this says something about humans), and also creating confusion between sex and gender and conflating them (such as how your sex is listed on ID, but people claim a gender, such as the opposite sex or non-binary, and have that gender listed as their sex).
- haldujai 3y ago
  I should have been clearer, sex is generally binary there are obviously rare exceptions like chromosomal abnormalities. Who's making these arguments? A quick Google scholar was not fruitful, do you have any sources or is this a fringe minority? > such as how your sex is listed on ID This presupposes that sex be listed on ID rather than gender. I don't follow this in the news so I'm not sure what the arguments are but at face value using the IOM definition from 2001 ("how that person is responded to by social institutions on the basis of the individual’s gender presentation.") gender seems like the more appropriate choice for identification.
idlewords 3y ago
Scientific American is probably the most prominent exponent of the novel idea that binary sex is an oversimplification and sex is in fact a spectrum. The claim is ubiquitous and held as dogma in online circles that it seems the protecting hand of a merciful God has so far shielded you from.

spinach 3y ago

There indeed are many people pushing the idea that sex isn't binary using things like Disorders of Sexual Development (intersex), other species that can change sex like clownfish (pretending this says something about humans), and also creating confusion between sex and gender and conflating them (such as how your sex is listed on ID, but people claim a gender, such as the opposite sex or non-binary, and have that gender listed as their sex).

haldujai 3y ago
I should have been clearer, sex is generally binary there are obviously rare exceptions like chromosomal abnormalities. Who's making these arguments? A quick Google scholar was not fruitful, do you have any sources or is this a fringe minority? > such as how your sex is listed on ID This presupposes that sex be listed on ID rather than gender. I don't follow this in the news so I'm not sure what the arguments are but at face value using the IOM definition from 2001 ("how that person is responded to by social institutions on the basis of the individual’s gender presentation.") gender seems like the more appropriate choice for identification.

idlewords 3y ago

Scientific American is probably the most prominent exponent of the novel idea that binary sex is an oversimplification and sex is in fact a spectrum. The claim is ubiquitous and held as dogma in online circles that it seems the protecting hand of a merciful God has so far shielded you from.