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[–]CatbugMods allow rape victim blaming in this sub :) 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

They aren’t fitness increasing, and sex is a true binary. Can you name the third gamete?

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Clearly human infants imitate the behavior they see in the environment as a means of learning as doing so increases fitness. The idea that there would be a tendency for absorbing certain behaviors more from those with similar sex traits than those with different because it increases and decreases is not so strange.

Sex is based on anatomy not gametes or else people without gametes are sexless, and the anatomy that constitutes sex occurs in a variety of intermediary forms and combinations making sex a spectrum

[–]CatbugMods allow rape victim blaming in this sub :) 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You are incorrect about sex. It’s potential gamete production but this has been explained to you plenty of times before.

So transgender people, as babies, see members of the opposite sex and try to mimic them and this is supposedly related to fitness of the species. It doesn’t make sense. Why do some babies mimic traits and behaviours that are apparently sexed and others don’t?

Which behaviours are sexed in particular?

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It affects 99.9% of infants.

Mating strategies, group dynamics, behaviors related to caring for offspring

[–]CatbugMods allow rape victim blaming in this sub :) 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Which behaviours specifically? How do they translate to an adult male saying he is a woman because dress go spinny?

What causes some infants to mimic the other sex?

Are you suggesting infants are aware of their sex from a neonatal stage? This is less of a theory you have and more of an opening question. It answers nothing and raises a hundred other issues with the initial statement.

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Clearly human infants imitate the behavior they see in the environment as a means of learning as doing so increases fitness. The idea that there would be a tendency for absorbing certain behaviors more from those with similar sex traits than those with different because it increases and decreases is not so strange.

Golly, you've clearly not spent much - oops, I mean any - time tending to human infants, have you? Infant humans imitate the behaviors of others they see and who interact with them, and especially those who lovingly care for them, coo at them, smile at them, talk and sing to them, play with them, etc - it's called "mirroring." But human infants do this regardless of the sex, age, race, ethnicity, hair color etc of the people who interact with and care for infants.

Human infants do not choose to model their behaviors only on those with "similar sex traits" to their own coz infants are unaware of their own sex and sex traits. Human infants can discern the differences between male and female voices, and other differences between mom and dad, men and women, that adults and older kids know to be linked to sex. For example, an infant who is exclusively breastfed quickly learns that when they are hungry, it's their female parent they need. But infants don't know that sex-linked traits are indicative of sex coz they don't have the intellectual or language capacity for such complex kinds of thoughts yet. Coz they're babies.

Sex is based on anatomy not gametes or else people without gametes are sexless, and the anatomy that constitutes sex occurs in a variety of intermediary forms and combinations making sex a spectrum

Sex anatomy is determined by which of two distinct, typical pathways each human has developed along. Except in very rare cases, males will have the potential capacity to make male gametes, sperm, at some point in their lives. Except in very rare cases, females are born with all their female gametes, ova, already formed, and once they reach menarche, females will have the capacity to mature and release female gametes on a cyclical basis, usually once a month, over a span of time usually lasting 40 or so years (commonly from circa age 11 to 51).

Gametes are made by male and female gonads, which are the testes and ovaries respectively. Testes and ovaries are entirely different. Except in cases of ovotesticular disorder - which is extremely rare, and which does not result in the production of viable gametes of either kind - males and female gonads do not exist on a spectrum, no there is no overlap between them. Similarly, the gametes produced by male and female gonads are also entirely distinct and different: sperm and egg. Those two are the only kinds of gametes that there are; there is no spectrum of gametes.