GC: Hermaphrodites in other animals show that sex, male and female, is man-made and a social construct that doesn't exist in other species

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[–]loveSloaneDebate King 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

  1. Show me hermaphroditism in humans. In actuality, not some hypothetical gotcha attempt. If you can’t, this is irrelevant. There’s all kinds of things that exist in some species but not others... it’s one of the reasons we have the term species... and the differences are part of how we classify them...

  2. Unless all or like 99% of trans people are actually hermaphrodites I don’t think this is a great argument. Trans people are still born with a clear sex. Hermaphroditism, if it existed in humans, would be something that wasn’t a choice or a sense of identity, it wouldn’t be a series of surgeries and or artificial hormones, it’s how they developed, naturally. They’d be born that way.

  3. I’m just not sure what point you think you’re making here

[–]Not_a_celebrity[S] 1 insightful - 6 fun1 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

Do you understand what hypotheticals are? You can't even answer hypothetical questions? If sex, male and female, exists in mammals but not in non-mammal species, then sex is a social construct. We could sit here all day and come to the realization even "specie" and the difference between mammal and non-mammal is a social construct, some categories humans made up to make it easier for them to navigate through the world.

[–]MezozoicGaygay male 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If sex, male and female, exists in mammals but not in non-mammal species, then sex is a social construct.

No? A lot of things exist only in mammals (and few rare exception), like livebirth, for example. So pregnancy and birth now is a social construct and does not exist?

Second thing - sex exist in almost all species, even species that have hermaphrodites - are either one or another sex during reproduction. You still need an egg and a sperm to reproduce. And definition of sex is unified among all species, and covers them all, and it is real biological thing that can be very easily tested and proved, easily distinguished in 99.9% cases. Sex is a descriptor of a real world phenomena. You can't test social constructs, they are just social constructs, something created in a mind, not in physical world.