• Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Significant proportion of people don’t fit into binary sex definition, however much you cut and define it, people have all sorts of crazy combinations. And if your strict binary definition doesn’t include all the subjects, it’s not strict, not binary, and signifies not a lot.
    “The observable universe is either Hydrogen or Helium, we don’t let small percent of exceptions destroy this nice model we have”

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      9 hours ago

      Sure. But saying “biological sex isn’t a strict binary, and is dismissive of intersex people and those with sex-related chromosomal disorders” isn’t the same thing as saying “biological sex is a lie”.

      In a the same sense that “the universe is majoratively hydrogen and helium” (which is true) isn’t the same thing as saying “the universe is either hydrogen or helium”.

      By being overly reductive you’re making a true statement into a false statement.