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[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why should sex be determined by gametes, or reproductive capability?

Because that is what sex means?! There are other ways to describe people other than sex if you’d like to describe something else about a person.

It seems we don't need male or female. We can simply say "people who produce sperm" and "people who carry eggs". Why use male and female when we can just use "sperm producers" and "egg carriers"?

Male and female are easier to say.

It would be pointless for sex to be determined by gametes, genes, and sex organs, when people wear clothes and we can not observe what's underneath the clothes, and even if we could, if they surgically removed their sex organs, we'd have to observe their genes which can not be done by the eyes.

For most people, it’s really easy to observe what their sex is, so even if it’s not perfect, it’s works well. It’s possible, occasionally, to look and sound enough like the other sex to be able to be perceived that way by other people, but it’s not the same as being the other sex. We don’t need the definition of sex to change.