GC: A female produces eggs and a male produces sperm, so why aren't pre-pubescent kids sexless? And Why are penis, testes, etc male and why are vagina, clitoris, uterus, ovaries, etc female? Why can't penis, testes, etc be female and why can't vagina, clitoris, uterus, ovaries, etc be male instead?

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They have the capacity to produce sperm. That's what makes them male, along with their XY chromosomes. An embryo has a sex, that was decided at conception. A woman who has surgery to remove her genitalia remains a woman because she was BORN female. Same with males. I could lose my breasts from surgery but I remain female. You can test any cell in my body and it will come back XX, female.

You can make up new words instead of male and female but it's the categorical difference that remains. Reality doesn't care which symbols you use to describe it. The fact that males and females have completely different genitalia remains. You could rename everything, and reality of the categorical differences remains.