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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]sex is a spectrum[/quote]

This is not true. There are two sexes- females, the sex class that can produce relatively large gametes (eggs) and males, the sex class that can produce relatively smaller gametes (sperm). A small percentage of the population has an intersex condition, the prevalence of which is estimated between 0.5 to 1.7% of the overall population. Sometimes (in 0.5 percent of the human species) this results in ambiguous genitalia. Sometimes this results in infertility, physical abnormality, or another issue. Sometimes it doesn't cause much of a problem at all. Intersex is a genetic condition or mutation, which is [b]not[/b] a judgment value- merely an acknowledgement of biological reality.

The existence of people with intersex conditions doesn't mean that there is a third sex, that there are more than two sexes, or that sex is a spectrum- just as the existence of people lacking one more or more legs from birth does not mean that humans aren't a bipedal species, or that "pedalism is a spectrum."
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I am this poster (16:48) and I want to correct a typo in this post. The estimate incidence of ambiguous genitalia is .05% of the overall population, not .5% as previously stated.[/quote]

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