GC: What are the definitions of male and female? How would intersex people fit into binary sex? And is calling the intersex condition a disorder (of sexual development) discriminatory towards intersex people?

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[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is a human defined by the number of legs, hands and fingers though? Are humans defined as a bipedal specie? If a human is defined as an organism with two legs, two hands and 5 fingers, why wouldn't it be correct to say someone born without a leg, or someone who amputated a leg is not a human? They don't meet the definition of human, or the requirement of which is to have exactly two legs, two hands, and 5 fingers

Please stop with your grotesque characterization of people with various disabilities as less than and other than human.

For the umpteenth time: what is generally true of any given species is not necessarily true of each and every individual member of that species at every point of life. Human beings as a species can be said to have two legs and arms, 10 toes and 10 fingers. This applies to 99+% of human beings. But there's a small number of some human beings who for one reason or another are outside this norms. However, that does not mean they are no longer members of the species Homo sapiens.

Again, you need to study up on classification and categorization. And on the difference between descriptive and prescriptive definitions.