GC: Why is sex binary and not a bimodal distribution in all sexually reproducing species? Don't hermaphrodites show that sex is not a binary in other sexually reproducing species?

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[–]BayHorseGender Critical 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

1 - Why don't hermaphrodites show that in other sexually reproducing species sex is not a binary?

Why does my perroquet being able to fly not prove that humans can fly?

2 - Why isn't someone less of a male or less of a female if they can not produce sperm or egg, have removed all genitalia in surgery, have big or small breasts, have less or more body and facial hair, etc?

Female : Pertaining to the sex class that produces large, immobile gametes.

Male : Pertaining to the sex class that produces small, motile gametes.

One's sex class has nothing to do with their secondary sex characteristics and doesn't change if someone can't produce gametes, be it because they're too old, too young, are infertile, or have been castrated.

3 - Saying that sperm = man and egg = woman is a pretty wobbly position. If we were to make a similar argument about other classifications, it would be: Backbone (the feature) = mammal (the category). Except that isn't true. Any number of vertebrates could have backbones, and so the presence of a backbone does not indicate one is a mammal.

This comparison does not hold up. You're comparing a wrong definition of "mammal" with the correct definitions of "male" and "female".