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[–]cybitch 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Technology evolving to the point of this being possible wouldn't make sex any more ambiguous than humans inventing guns makes tigers not dangerous. There are 2 kinds of gametes humans can produce, and as a result 2 kinds of roles we can play during reproduction - the reason biological sex exists in the first place. There are also humans with bodies that are incapable of reproduction, who don't fit into either role, but that doesn't change the fact that humans have 2 sexes, no more, no less, that just means sometimes animals are born with genetic abnormalities. We don't treat any other kind of genetic abnormality as something that defines our species, for example noone would claim the human species evolved to have a variable amount of fingers just because sometimes one is born with more than 5 on each hand.

So no, nothing will make human sex ambiguous. It's a trait that's been well defined since the beginning of time in all primates. Some potential technological advancement doesn't change anything about how nature evolved us, it just means we've learned yet another way to alter our environment to be more to our liking.

[–]transwomanHesitantly QT?[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for your response ☺️

I agree with you, there are 2 total sexes, which is based on the number of gametes humans are capable of producing, and that this idea in itself wouldn't change regardless of technological advancements.

I suppose what I meant by "ambiguous" is that sex is currently understood to be immutable, but this immutability becomes less clear in this particular thought experiment. So if, somehow, we reached a level of medical advancements which allowed us to change all the sex characteristics of a person, do you think that person would "become" a member of the opposite sex, or would they remain the sex that they were born as?