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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[–]Tea_Or_Coffee[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If vagina, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries are not genitals, then what are they? And in intersex cases where males have uteruses, fallopian tubes, ovaries, vaginas, etc, does it mean uterus, vagina, fallopian tubes, ovaries, etc are not female organs but organs that both male and female can have?

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If vagina, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries are not genitals, then what are they?

They're reproductive organs. Just as female breasts are. Not every female reproductive organ, or part of the female reproductive tract, is called genitals. Thinking they are is something only guys tend to do.

And in intersex cases where males have uteruses, fallopian tubes, ovaries, vaginas, etc, does it mean uterus, vagina, fallopian tubes, ovaries,

You are just making stuff up now - and out of whole cloth too. Males with PMDS have vestiges of uteri and Fallopian tubes, but they do not vaginas and ovaries. Some very few males with rare DSDs have vestigal ovotesticular tissue. No male human has ovaries or a vagina.

[–]Tea_Or_Coffee[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Since males with Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome have uterus and fallopian tubes, does that mean uterus and fallopian tubes are not female organs, but organs that both males and females have?

[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, it means that the person's development went slightly awry at an early point in utero. Your questions show that you have no idea what human zygotes/embryos/fetuses develop go through in utero, and no idea about biology and evolution more generally.