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[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Actually it would really help illustrate exactly what sex is and why it’s not changeable in a human.

When a mummy and a daddy make a baby, the daddy gives the mummy a gamete called a sperm. Mummy has an egg for her gamete and when the spent and egg make friends in mummy’s tummy, a baby happens.

Mummy is female because she is an adult human who developed a body that would, in good health and during her fertile years, produce eggs. Her body would not make a sperm even if she really wanted it to.

Daddy is a male because his body developed in a way that means he will in going health and during his fertile years, make sperm. His body would not make an egg under any circumstance.

If mummy or daddy get sick or old they will stop making gametes, but their bodies are still the same structurally and are still bodies that developed to produce one of two options.

If mummies and daddies in the future have gills, should mummy stop taking her lung medicine? No because the future gills aren’t relevant.

Should we define sex by something that might happen in the future? No because future sexlessness is not relevant.